PPKI pupils in Chinese and Tamil schools will learn mother tongue languages under the new national curriculum to aid integration into mainstream classes.
ALOR GAJAH: Pupils in the Special Education Integration Programme (PPKI) at Chinese and Tamil national-type schools will begin learning Chinese and Tamil languages next year.
This initiative is part of the new 2027 School Curriculum launched by the Education Ministry.
Deputy Education Minister Wong Kah Woh said the curriculum aims to strengthen character education alongside literacy and numeracy skills.
He emphasised the importance of mother tongue proficiency for pupils who may integrate into mainstream classes.
“This is very important because for PPKI pupils, some who have made good progress can enter mainstream classes, where they need to have the skills or knowledge to master their own mother tongue in learning,” Wong said. He was speaking at the Malaysian SJKT Headmasters’ Digital Leadership Symposium here.
The three-day symposium concludes tomorrow with about 470 headmasters from Tamil schools nationwide in attendance. Wong also announced a separate initiative for digital learning tools in schools.
He said 140 Tamil schools with at least 30 pupils will receive smart televisions this year. This follows a previous provision of similar devices to 387 schools through an allocation from the Malaysian Indian Community Transformation Unit last year.
