KUALA LUMPUR: The government plans to gather all early children education institutions nationwide via the establishment of a special committee to monitor the setting up and operation of such institutions.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said that the setting up of the committee had received the green light by the Cabinet. It will be chaired jointly by the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry and Education Ministry.
“Among the objectives of the committee is to spearhead the establishment of a special body with executive power to monitor the implementation of institutions in Malaysia.
“The government, however, will not sideline the rights and responsibility of every ministry and agency involved in early children education in Malaysia,” she said during her wrapping-up speech on Budget 2019 at the Dewan Rakyat today.
She was answering a question from Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid (BN-Umno-Padang Terap) on the issue of early children education in the country.
Dr Wan Azizah, who is also Women, Family and Community Development Minister, said she would chair a meeting involving all related ministries and their agencies.
“The government is aware of the issue of early education for children aged below six.
“For children aged below four, they would be placed at Child Care Centres (Taska) while those aged five and six would be placed at kindergartens.
“Both institutions will be monitored by the related ministries and agencies and be subject to different Acts,” she said.