MCA Youth to keep fighting for Chinese schools right
SEMENYIH: MCA Youth will continue to fight for a “fair and just” treatment of Chinese schools.
Its chief Chong Sin Woon said the development of Chinese education in the country had not been easy and was mainly due to the struggle and efforts of the Chinese community.
“The Chinese community in this country wanted a fair and just treatment in education. It is their struggle until today to ask for it.
“It is my duty to stand together with them to rectify whatever policy to make this country have a more just and fair education (system),” he told reporters after attending a memorial ceremony for Chinese educationist Datuk Sim Mow Yu at the Nirvana Memorial Garden here yesterday.
Sim, who was chairman of Lim Lian Geok Foundation, Malacca Chinese Assembly Hall, president of SJK(C) Ping Ming for 27 years and Jiao Zong (United Chinese School Teachers Association) for 28 years, died in 2009.
He is recorded in the Malaysia Book of Records as being the longest-serving school principal. Some 20,000 students have received their education under Sim’s guidance.
Sim, who is remembered for his dedication to Chinese vernacular education, was detained under the Internal Security Act and Sedition Act in the 1970s over issues relating to Chinese education.
Chong said there had been positive developments in the effort to recognise the Unified Examinations Certificate (UEC) after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak openly talked about it.
He said technical meetings had already begun, the progress of which he described as “positive”.
“We are now waiting for the respective ministers to meet and discuss what had been agreed upon in the previous meetings before the Prime Minister makes his decision.”