A review of school improvement programme in expediting Malaysia education system reforms

Abstract

This paper examines the School Improvement Programme and its role in enhancing the delivery of education system in Malaysia. More specifically, the paper evaluated the implementation efforts and the challenges faced regarding the School improvement programmes. Although school improvement efforts have long traditions in Malaysia and over the years many educational reform plans for school development have been designed and implemented. Yet, there are mixed reactions regarding the success of these reforms and school improvement programmes. Previously, many studies have examined the impact of these programmes on schools, student development and academic achievement and so on. However, these studies have provided little information about the efforts and challenges on the implementation of the School Improvement Programmes in Malaysia. Hence, the main aims of this paper were: to investigate into the efforts and challenges and to provide some suggestions as to how these challenges could be overcome. To achieve these objectives, the paper carried out a surgical dissection of the current literature on the school improvement plan, its efforts and the challenges in Malaysia. The critical investigation into the existing literature on different aspects of the School Improvement Programme, implementation efforts and the challenges showed that school improvement plan in Malaysia.