In 2016 Malaysia is going to spend over 41 billion ringgit on on education. With a national annual budget that hovers around 250 billion ringgit Malaysia's education spending is among the highest in the region. There is more higher educational institutions, both public and private in Malaysia than in the rest of Southeast Asia. Yet many Malaysians still desire to study abroad, choosing UK and the US to further higher education. If many Malaysian parents cannot afford UK or US, there is Australia, New Zealand, Singpore, Taiwan and India. There are good reasons many parents choose to educate their children outside Malaysia. Chief among them is Malaysia's lacklustre public universities. So instead of spending a lot of money in private universities in Malaysia that function more as schools instead of research and development institutions, parents choose to pay more so their children can get an education that is considered better than what is available in Malaysia. This is a strange conundrum for a country that has been open and exposed to science and technology since its inception six decades ago.
As early as the 60's the government of Malaysia has spent a lot of money on education, including sending students overseas for higher education. Yet after all this time and probably trillions of ringgit spent none of Malaysia's the public universities are know as world class research institutions. Malaysia has a lot of resources–biological and geological that have potential to be developed into new materials, technology and pharmaceutics by curious professors. Yet Malaysia's economy still depends on selling commodities and manufacturing with foreign technology. Research and development is weak if not almost non-existent in Malaysia despite much political weight behind making Malaysia a world class education hub.
So what is going to happen to 41 billion ringgit on education this year? Spending to keep the same old machinery going, with more spending on research by foreigners for recommendations on how to boost Malaysia's world education standing–a worthless annual effort. In the foreseeable future Malaysia's public education system will continue to deteriorate, probably setting new benchmarks for how much money can be spent on making the countries education standards worse instead of better. Cheers to Malaysia's 2016 budget revision!
As early as the 60's the government of Malaysia has spent a lot of money on education, including sending students overseas for higher education. Yet after all this time and probably trillions of ringgit spent none of Malaysia's the public universities are know as world class research institutions. Malaysia has a lot of resources–biological and geological that have potential to be developed into new materials, technology and pharmaceutics by curious professors. Yet Malaysia's economy still depends on selling commodities and manufacturing with foreign technology. Research and development is weak if not almost non-existent in Malaysia despite much political weight behind making Malaysia a world class education hub.
So what is going to happen to 41 billion ringgit on education this year? Spending to keep the same old machinery going, with more spending on research by foreigners for recommendations on how to boost Malaysia's world education standing–a worthless annual effort. In the foreseeable future Malaysia's public education system will continue to deteriorate, probably setting new benchmarks for how much money can be spent on making the countries education standards worse instead of better. Cheers to Malaysia's 2016 budget revision!
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