SIBU: Sarawak Secondary School Principals Association has pledged to make full use of the state government’s education initiatives to improve learning outcomes and provide students with greater opportunities to pursue higher education.
President Ujai Sembau said principals were grateful for the state government’s strong commitment to education and were ready to shoulder the responsibility of ensuring its education programmes achieved their intended objectives.
“All Sarawak principals are very fortunate to be under the protection of a state government that is very pro-education.
“We welcome and are ready to shoulder the responsibility to make all the corridors of the education ecosystem that have been provided by the state government a success,” he said at the association’s 61st school management conference on Thursday (July 30).
Ujai said the Sarawak Enhancement Education Programme (SEED), which received an allocation of RM25 million this year, represented a valuable opportunity to strengthen the education of secondary school students.
“The introduction of the Sarawak Enhancement Education Programme, or better known as SEED, with an extraordinary allocation of RM25 million this year, is a weapon and a golden opportunity that we will fully benefit from,” he reiterated.
He pledged that school principals would ensure the allocation was used effectively to benefit students from Form One to Form Five.
According to Ujai, the initiatives would help improve schools’ overall academic performance while narrowing the education gap between urban and rural areas.
He also welcomed the implementation of the Sarawak Dual Language Programme (DLP), saying greater mastery of English was essential to expanding students’ future opportunities.
“We see mastery of the English language as a mandatory requirement for our children to feel a sense of opportunity,” he said.
Ujai said the state government’s broader education policy, to be implemented from 2026, together with other initiatives, centred on students’ welfare, should motivate schools to step up their efforts.
“There is no longer an excuse for us not to give our best,” he added.
He described the state’s education initiatives as an encouraging catalyst for secondary schools across Sarawak to provide students with clearer pathways to higher education.
