how the Education Ordinance 1952 was formed?
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The British colonial government had set up the Central Advisory Committee headed by Whitfield to review the Barnes Report and Fenn-Wu Report to restructure a more appropriate Malayan educational policy. Its recommendations had led to the enactment of the Education Ordinance 1952. It had implemented the proposal from Barnes Report:
Establishing a national school system consisting of Malay-, English-, Chinese- and Tamil-medium schools at the primary level.
Malay- and English-medium schools at the secondary schools, with a uniform national curriculum regardless of the medium of instruction.
Malay-medium schools would be known as “national”, while other languages schools would be known as “national-type”.
Enforcement of the Malay and English languages as compulsory subjects throughout the six years of primary education in the vernacular schools.