Inequality In Education System In Malaysia

Education inequality in malaysia rosni bakar associate professor universiti malaysia sarawak.

Inequality in education system in malaysia. Statistically speaking when inequality within primary education increases by 1 the average gdp per capita would decrease by rm149 whereas it would decrease by rm323 for secondary education. One of the major concerned by the government in line to reduce poverty and income inequality is. This results in a bigger gap of education inequality due to socioeconomic reasons as previously explained. This vicious cycle will continuously repeat forming one part of the poverty cycle.

However since the 1990s income inequality is beginning to move upward again. For example psacharopoulos 1977a and ram 1982. In 2016 the world economic forum produced the global gender gap report which scored and ranked nations on the global gender gap index. Free education under the malaysian school system might satisfy the egalitarian view on education.

The poverty rate in malaysia has dropped tremendously whereas income inequality has followed an upward and downward trend. In general the education system in malaysia tends to class students according to their grades. No wonder some youths today feel the lack of equality and a sense of solidarity in their environment at home school college and university. Gender inequality in girls education in malaysia another issue is that girls education in malaysia is not translating into equal opportunities and empowerment once they finish school.

In measuring the degree of educational inequality in the education system of a given country several methods were used in previous studies. The system of segregation tagging and inequality has resulted in the country losing out in terms of having a strong and diverse pool of highly talented and skilled workers. But taking a detailed look it is impossible for such equality to be fully achieved. Beginning 1957 58 until 1990 malaysia has completed one cycle of kuznets inverted u hypothesis.

I am a victim of the injustice in our education system which seems to defy the global trend by awarding scholarships to students based not on. Therefore a formal compensatory public education policy can better serve these. Ethnicity inequality and higher education in malaysia viswanathan selvaratnam some sociologists contend that the disadvantaged the poor and minorities do poorly in education largely because of the inequitable distribution of resources for education.