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The push for a high-income economy by
the year 2020 has prompted the Sarawak
government to pay close attention to
the development of our human capital.
Programmes that aim to discover and tap
the full potentials of our children are being
strengthened. These include the preschool
and the youth capacity building programmes
where pre-school education providers as
well as organizations involved in youth
programmes are given the much-needed
support and resources by the government.
I believe that the development of SCORE will create new opportunities,
which will be dependent on efforts in restructuring the society, and economy.
Restructuring the economy is relatively easier than preparing the people on what
they should do in pursuit for progress and advancement.
For example, they must know how to pursue the right kind of education in
order to avoid mismatch between manpower planning and courses being pursed
by young people. That will take us at least one generation.
The government has been taking appropriate steps to spread the penetration
or intrusion of internet into rural areas as a way to provide more modern education
to the rural population, school-going children in particular. The intrusion in
Mukah has increased to 50% while Miri has over 70%. The spread of intrusion of
internet to rural schools will be further intensiied as a way to modernize teaching
methods and contents of education to be more in keeping with the pace of the
industrialization program.
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the year 2020 has prompted the Sarawak
government to pay close attention to
the development of our human capital.
Programmes that aim to discover and tap
the full potentials of our children are being
strengthened. These include the preschool
and the youth capacity building programmes
where pre-school education providers as
well as organizations involved in youth
programmes are given the much-needed
support and resources by the government.
I believe that the development of SCORE will create new opportunities,
which will be dependent on efforts in restructuring the society, and economy.
Restructuring the economy is relatively easier than preparing the people on what
they should do in pursuit for progress and advancement.
For example, they must know how to pursue the right kind of education in
order to avoid mismatch between manpower planning and courses being pursed
by young people. That will take us at least one generation.
The government has been taking appropriate steps to spread the penetration
or intrusion of internet into rural areas as a way to provide more modern education
to the rural population, school-going children in particular. The intrusion in
Mukah has increased to 50% while Miri has over 70%. The spread of intrusion of
internet to rural schools will be further intensiied as a way to modernize teaching
methods and contents of education to be more in keeping with the pace of the
industrialization program.
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