Sekolah Henry Gurney graduates offered higher education
KUCHING: Five SPM graduates of Sekolah Henry Gurney ( SHG) have been offered studies in public higher education institutions.
“This is encouraging. These people give hope to other students (in the school),” Minister of Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Datuk Fatimah Abdullah said at a grant handover to Dyslexia Association of Sarawak (DAS) in Masja yesterday.
SHG is a school in Puncak Borneo Prison for juvenile delinquents from 15 to 21 years old to study and sit for the SPM examination.
“Make sure they have the qualifications and skills to increase their employability. These people will not be blacklisted. It’s important to prepare them to be employable after graduation,” Fatimah said.
To improve the quality of education and teaching, 10 teachers from SHG will be attending a three- day workshop conducted by DAS on a date to be decided later. There are 94 students in SHG. Among the 26 students with literacy problems who are being placed in tuition class, 10 are illiterate, four can only read the syllabus and 12 can read but have poor understanding of words.
Fatimah said the students should be literate not only in Malay but English too.
SHG was set up in April 2016 as the first school in the prison for juvenile delinquents in Sarawak.
She said parents of juvenile delinquents had requested the government to set up a school like this in Sarawak.
Since the opening of SHG in Sarawak last year, juvenile delinquents from Sarawak have been transferred back to Sarawak from other states.