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Wednesday, 21 Apr 2021 08:43 PM MYT A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a frontliner at the UiTM Private Specialist Centre in Sungai Buloh March 2, 2021. ― Picture by Hari Anggara Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. KUALA LUMPUR, April 21 — Several parties especially health and education experts are worried about the possibility of Covid-19 cases spreading in schools when face-to-face teaching and l...

PETALING JAYA: Schools should only fully close if the number of Covid-19 cases within the school fraternity starts climbing. National Union of the Teaching Profession (NUTP) secretary-general Harry Tan said: “This is to ensure education can go on uninterrupted for the other students, providing that those who tested positive are quickly isolated and quarantined.” “If only one person is found to be positive, then that person will already be told to quarantine while, I believe, the Health Mi...

PETALING JAYA: Parents want more transparency when it comes to standard operating procedures (SOP) practised in schools when teachers or students are found to be infected with Covid-19. This comes as more confirmed cases were recorded, with the latest from SJK (C) Puay Chai 2 here which was ordered to close after six pupils tested positive for the disease and 11 teachers were placed under home quarantine. The schools parent-teacher association chairman Loh Tian Hong said parents were not told w...

However, the National Union of the Teaching Profession has been less critical of the situation. While its secretary-general Harry H.H. Tan agrees that there have been some negative impact, he pointed out that the teaching and learning process continued through the pandemic. “It is a continuous process and it does not matter whether it is done at home or at school,” he said. Nonetheless, he conceded that children who do not have access to their teachers for various reasons, such as poverty o...

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PETALING JAYA: It was chaotic for some schools as secondary students returned in full force. Crowd control, parents said, was a major issue. The downpour led to jams outside several schools as students waited for their transport to go home. Melaka Action Group for Parents in Education chairman Mak Chee Kin said while students and teachers attempted to comply with the standard operating procedure, the situation was less than ideal in some schools. Controlling the large volume of students at the ...

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - All five million students in Malaysia were in school on Monday (April 5), the first time that every student is back in school since the country had to grapple with the third wave of Covid-19 cases. While schools started welcoming back students as early as March 1 this year, only preschoolers and pupils in primary Years One and Two, followed by those in Year Three to Six a week later, were allowed into their classrooms then under a staggered return. A...

PETALING JAYA: All five million students are in school today, the first time that everyone is back since the country had to grapple with the third wave of Covid-19 cases. While schools started welcoming back students as early as March 1 this year, only preschoolers and pupils in primary Years One and Two, followed by those in Year Three to Six a week later, were allowed into their classrooms then under a staggered return. All secondary school students have resumed schooling today after five mon...

Improvements suggested for DidikTV Bernama PETALING JAYA: Education experts have lauded the proposal to make DidikTV a permanent feature, but said improvements are necessary to ensure it can adequately serve the needs of students in the long term. They said the Education Ministry could invest in developing better content, or making the content interesting enough to grab and hold the students’ attention. Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman deputy head of curriculum development Dr Ngeow Yeok Men...

Learning together: Zulkifli Mohamad, 38, (far left) and his wife Nor Hidayu Zakaria, 39, (third from left) monitoring the lesson as their children tune in to DidikTV at their home in Taman Adis Indah, Kuala Ibai. — Bernama WHEN DidikTV Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia (DidikTV) was launched to improve the Education Ministry’s TV Pendidikan, it was hailed as a way to level the playing field for students nationwide. Now, those without digital gadgets or an Internet connection could keep up wit...