Council: School boards sidelined under new guidelines


Compiled by C. ARUNO and CLARISSA CHUNG

SCHOOL boards will have lost their right in deciding school policies with the release of the Education Ministry’s new guidelines on the teaching of Jawi calligraphy, Sin Chew Daily reported the Chinese Language Council as saying.

Its chairman Datuk Wang Hong Cai said the ministry had ignored repeated calls by the school boards to include them as decision-makers.

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