IMPROVING REMOTE PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN MALAYSIA: SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM A CASE STUDY

Naimah, Ishak and Rosnarizah, Abdul Halim (2011) IMPROVING REMOTE PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN MALAYSIA: SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM A CASE STUDY. Jurnal Pengurusan dan Kepimpinan Pendidikan, 22 (2). pp. 65-75. ISSN 1511-4147

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Abstract

Malaysia introduced the Government Transformation Programme (GTP), in early 2010, a crucial programme with various strategies to reach Vision 2020. The GTP comprises of 10th Malaysia Plan, National Key Result Areas, National Key Economic Areas and the 1Malaysia concepts. There are six national key result area and priority is given in transforming education in Malaysia, focusing in strengthening the efficiency of its delivery system. The Education National Key Results Area (NKRA) is part of the GTP aims to improve student outcomes across Malaysia’s school system as well as to enable access to quality education for all students. The Ministry of Education Malaysia introduces the School Improvement Programme (SIP) on March 2010 to help raise performance of schools. SIP complements the ‘High-Performing Schools’ (HPS) in such a way that the HPS raises the bar and set the standard for school excellence, while SIP closes the achievement gap as well as ensures that all schools especially the low performing ones are not left behind. This paper intends to share the Malaysian experience in planning and strategizing mechanism in improving and raising the bar of 209 low performing primary schools which are mostly located in remote parts of the country.

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