BY SULOK TAWIE
KUCHING, Dec 6 ― The state government has formed a company to manage and operate five residential international schools that will be built next year, Education, Science and Technological Research Minister Datuk Seri Michael Manyin said today. “We are now in the process of appointing the chief executive officer of the company as requested by the Education Ministry,” he told reporters after the signing of an agreement between Sarawak Research and Development Council, University of Cambridge and Sarawak Campus of Curtin University of Technology here.Manyin added that the state government has already identified several state lands as sites for the schools.
The second school will be located on a site near the Sarawak Heart Centre in Kota Samarahan, the third in Sibu, and the fourth and fifth in Bintulu and Miri respectively.He said school headmasters will help the state government to pick the best and brightest students based on Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah examination results.