Cabinet considering giving missionary schools full aid
Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting and Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali at the handing over ceremony in SMK St Michael yesterday. |
IPOH: The cabinet will look into problems faced by missionary schools nationwide, including according them fully-aided school status.
MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting, in giving this assurance, said the government would have to clarify the status of the schools first as they were usually built on privately-owned land.
He said this in his speech at the handing-over of cheques totalling RM400,000 to 49 missionary schools in Perak at SMK St Michael here yesterday.
He said certain grants had been approved for the missionary schools. He did not elaborate.
Currently, the schools' board of governors have to raise funds to buy teaching and learning aids, furniture and other facilities, including computers.