Universalisation of Primary Education

Universalisation of Primary Education

There are two types of public schools at the primary level, that is the national schools and national type schools.

The national schools provide instruction in Malay; the national type schools provide it either in Mandarin or Tamil. Both the public and private schools follow the Kurikulum Baru Sekolah Rendah (KBSR) or the New Primary School Curriculum.

The national curriculum, fully implemented in 1988, is continuously evaluated and upgraded to meet current developments in education and accommodate new challenges, aspirations and values and future demands of the changing technology.