From: goh@nyquist.usc.edu (K.C.Goh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: Re: Best School in Malaysia
Date: 22 Jul 1992 23:07:17 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Hi !

goh@nyquist.usc.edu (K.C.Goh) writes:
> So, coming to the point, does anybody out there feel brave enough
> to put forward a list of the five GREATEST schools in Singapore and
> Malaysia ? Private, religious or non-traditional schools may be included

So far, this is what we have:

1)	Clifford College, KK
		"Dr Mahatir's School 		- HP"

2)	Malay College, KK
		"..more Ministers and Sultans than you'd care to imagine
                                            --Syed Shibli"

3)	Raffles Institution and RJC
		"If I apply your criterion, I would vote RI to be 
		the most successful school in the region.....
		....  RI continues to be great because it is able to 
		attract the BEST and most able students..
						Dennis Lee"

4)	Maktab Rendah Sains Maras and Other "Established governemnt 
		affiliated boarding schools .. SMSAH,...TKC, STF, STAR"   
		
		"Now MRSMs seem to excel more than any other boarding 
		schools in Malaysia. ... now there are on the top 
		as compared to other boarding schools (based on SPM
  		performance). ...Established governemnt 
		affiliated boarding schools .. SMSAH,...TKC, STF, STAR"   
		... have top qualities educators, such as at 
		STAR, Goh Cheng Leong (retired) for Geography ...
		(K.C. says: WOW !)
						-nor-azlan nordin-"

5)	Hwa Chong Junior College
	"Hwa Chong consistently produced the most number of 4 As 
	students annually! I still remember vividly how Bernard 
	Fong used to wave his hands and conduct the singing of the 
	National Anthem during assemblies..............................
						Victor Jiun-Wen Keong"
	"In fact, Bernard Fong used to claim the HCJC produced
	the best 'A' Level results in the Commonwealth. That was
	around '82,'83.
						K.C. Goh"
	"But majority of the teachers cared about students, not restricted
	to their students score alone.
						Kelvin Cheu"

No other school has been mentioned in the net as being ...err..
as great as the five above, so I suppose we all agree, taking into
account the very volatile nature of the discussions on this newsgroup.
I'm surprised though nobody nominated Victoria Institution of
KL (the Sidek Brothers) or PFS (TAR, Datuk Elyas Omar).

However, being a Malaysian, I remain very curious about MCKK
and the other "government funded established boarding schools",
not having met many students from there.

1)	Is it very difficult to get a place in MCKK etc ?
	Do all the best primary school students in Malaysia
	go to these schools?
	
	For example, in Penang, I'd thought that all the best
	students went to Penang Free School, Chung Ling High
	School or St George's Girls School.
	How does one go about getting a place in MCKK, for
	example ?  Perhaps students from rural areas are
	given preference ?

2)	The newspapers never seem to mention MCKK, TKC or STAR
	when they report on the best SPM/STPM results.
	Do students in these schools take different types of
	exams like the SAT or AEB etc ?  If so, why ?

3)	Is it actually an official policy of the Ministry of Education
	to make these schools "elite" schools by sending them all 
	the best students and teachers in Malaysia ?

Regards,

K.C. Goh

P.S. 	I hope I have not breached net protocol by using quotes
	the way I have done above.  I am positive that all of the quotes
	are in context and are accurate reflections of the ideas
	their originators were trying to convey in their postings.

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