LOOKING at basic education indicators from 1999 onwards, Malaysia trends upwards in literacy, enrolment and mean years of schooling yet the country still falls behind others in the region in international assessments, a discussion paper published by Khazanah Reasearch Institute in October last year revealed.
The country’s improving performance in basic education indicators, have failed to translate into good performance outcomes in the TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study).
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