: The Education Ministry should ensure that the curriculum in schools are in keeping with the latest market needs, in light of a World Bank report on the state of the country’s education, a DAP state assemblywoman said.
“This insight should spur all stakeholders to urgently address this weakness. One area which the MOE should look into is to ensure that our curriculum is in keeping with the rapidly-evolving market and industry needs. Citing her own experience, Ng said her office had sponsored 21 students in her constituency to learn coding, a valuable skill amid the wave of Industrial Revolution 4.0 which was currently sweeping the world.
Ng also called on the Johor government to increase the budget to help needy students catch up on their studies and pick up market-driven skills sets.The State Government, she added, could also look into building more technical, vocational education training centres or increase the budget to existing ones, considering the growing acceptance towards skills training now.