PETALING JAYA: The return of Datuk Dr Radzi Jidin and Datuk Seri Dr Noraini Ahmad as Education Minister and Higher Education Minister will ensure a continuity of policies and plans.
PETALING JAYA: Higher education institutions outside the enhanced movement control order areas have begun sending students home while institutions located in the enhanced MCO areas are taking care of their students still stuck on campus.
Universiti Sains Malaysia vice-chancellor (Student and Alumni Development) Prof Dr Aldrin Abdullah said they had mobilised 10 of their own buses together with other chartered buses to send their 2, 500 students home from the main campus in Penang.
“There are also stringent standard operating procedures in place to protect our students, including sanitising the buses regularly and enforcing the wearing of masks, ” he said in an interview yesterday.
PETALING JAYA: Research activities can continue on campus during the full lockdown but under strict standard operating procedure and with special permission granted by department heads.
The Higher Education Ministry said these activities should only be done if absolutely necessary and on a solo basis.
It said students living off-campus and engaged in research activities requiring laboratory facilities and special equipment need to obtain a letter of permission to enter and exit the campus from their respective higher education institution (HEI).
The ministry also said all teaching and learning (PdP) activities would be done online for all students, whether on or off-campus.
PETALING JAYA: In less than a month, schools will reopen and the much-delayed Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) trials will continue.
Parents whose children’s schools have yet to complete the trial exams are anxious over the implications of the delay in sitting for the Form Five trial exams.
In November last year, Education director-general Datuk Dr Habibah Abdul Rahim was quoted as saying that 85% or 2,004 schools had carried out the trial exams while the remaining 346 schools had yet to conduct theirs.
Those schools could not conduct the trial examinations because they were in conditional MCO areas, which included Sabah, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan, she added.