PETALING JAYA: Parents and students will know on Thursday (April 25) whether their appeals to be part of the Dual Language Programme (DLP) at a primary school in Kuala Lumpur are successful. This follows the school’s decision to reassess the Year One students’ Bahasa Malaysia (BM) proficiency to determine if they were eligible to be … Read more
Photo: Jason Bean-Pool (Getty Images), Ford Bronco Sport owners are having some trouble today, as Ford recalled 22,270 of the compact crossovers (alongside 20,382 Escapes) for possible cracked fuel injectors. One famed Bronco owner, however, has things even worse: The family of OJ Simpson confirmed his death at age 76 this morning, following a battle … Read more
PUTRAJAYA: The Education Ministry’s measure to separate pupils into a three-month intervention programme has sparked concerns among parent groups that fear it may lead to pupils feeling singled out and stigmatised. Melaka Action Group for Parents in Education (Magpie) chairman Mak Chee Kin said segregating pupils who have yet to master the 3M skills – … Read more
A LARGE number of Malaysian students have been performing poorly in the annual Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) English language paper. This, said Dr Ramesh Nair, must be taken as an indication that all is not well in the delivery of English lessons in schools. Ramesh The Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (Melta) president added that … Read more
Image: Porsche Between June 23 and September 5, Porsche built 53 Boxster and Cayman models for the U.S. market with a little snippet of code that makes them potentially totally illegal to drive. The German automaker says an employee was manually altering code in the rear vehicle control unit, which now allows the rear spoiler … Read more
