Sunday, November 29, 2009
will the national exam take an absence?
National Examination (UN) always becomes a "specter" year by year for students who are at their last year of school. Sometimes it is even considered antagonistic to some students who have not passed the criterion because after all the years of schooling, the decision is resulted from several insufficient marks from UN which don't comply the qualified standards. Various facts that we find in the accomplishment of UN are seen like an irony in which the country aims to make equal distribution of education quality. While in some remote areas or concession areas, there are still many educators with inadequate quality compared to ones in the cities. That is also including their lack of learning facilities and infrastructure, and information access. Yet, the affair in equalizing the national standards in elementary school, junior, and senior high still remains to be done, more tragic, it is used as a requirement in the selection for their higher level of education, like college. Some who want to continue their education in better institution with better standard than their before-schools are confined by the school's inability to bring them there. Very ironic.
Through a press release, the Minister of National Education in Indonesia, M. Nuh said that in 2010 the Ministry of National Education will make changes to the implementation of National Examination (UN). The decision is the people in charge in determining the graduates are the teachers who embroiled in the students' learning process. So, if there are students who score 10, but according to the teachers, he/she isn't possible to graduate, then like that it shall be done," said the Minister of National Education, M. Nuh. Likewise, it was also reported that by next year, students who are unable to participate in UN at the appointed time, due by sickness or any other thing, will be given opportunity to participate through Overtake Examination. Whilst, for the implementation of National Examination in the coming years still doesn't have any certainty, to be hels out or not.
From my opinion, I agree that there are some things that should be changed in UN 2010. The national standards set by the state ought to continue to run, but the determinaton of standards in each area should be adapted to the local circumstances. For example, UN graduation standards in big cities just remains 5.5, while for remote areas 4.75 or thereabouts. After that, schools with lower-qualification standards must be given some additional subjects or what we call matriculation. It is done in order to even up the lessons from schools of big cities. Thus, being less confident or the delay in obtaining some lessons will not be a barrier for them to take college entrance test in the city.
This will be one of the key in which the government can run the true purpose of UN as an equalizer in eduaction quality development. Moreover, this can be supported also by the development of qualified eduators taht's getting lessened in our country and hopefully more capable educators can be sent evenly in different places, not just focused in big cities.
I also want to opine about the security, the held of expansion security is needed, because from year to year fraudulency kept happening on and on. Students' motivation had always been only to "graduate" smoothly without minding the true purpose of UN. Let's change that paradigm.
In the future, I clearly think that National Examination should not be held anymore, due to many contradictions brewing, especially when it is said the tendency is for the education quality development's sake, which sounds so cliche for most people nowadays. However, I wish the absence of UN does not mean that the quality standards at each school will just stay the same or even decrease. The government must put more state budget on education, therefore small schools can develop from within and make their breakthroughs in the future.
(11.29.09, mela)
--------mela was thinking so HARD before she wrote this LOL :D
Through a press release, the Minister of National Education in Indonesia, M. Nuh said that in 2010 the Ministry of National Education will make changes to the implementation of National Examination (UN). The decision is the people in charge in determining the graduates are the teachers who embroiled in the students' learning process. So, if there are students who score 10, but according to the teachers, he/she isn't possible to graduate, then like that it shall be done," said the Minister of National Education, M. Nuh. Likewise, it was also reported that by next year, students who are unable to participate in UN at the appointed time, due by sickness or any other thing, will be given opportunity to participate through Overtake Examination. Whilst, for the implementation of National Examination in the coming years still doesn't have any certainty, to be hels out or not.
From my opinion, I agree that there are some things that should be changed in UN 2010. The national standards set by the state ought to continue to run, but the determinaton of standards in each area should be adapted to the local circumstances. For example, UN graduation standards in big cities just remains 5.5, while for remote areas 4.75 or thereabouts. After that, schools with lower-qualification standards must be given some additional subjects or what we call matriculation. It is done in order to even up the lessons from schools of big cities. Thus, being less confident or the delay in obtaining some lessons will not be a barrier for them to take college entrance test in the city.
This will be one of the key in which the government can run the true purpose of UN as an equalizer in eduaction quality development. Moreover, this can be supported also by the development of qualified eduators taht's getting lessened in our country and hopefully more capable educators can be sent evenly in different places, not just focused in big cities.
I also want to opine about the security, the held of expansion security is needed, because from year to year fraudulency kept happening on and on. Students' motivation had always been only to "graduate" smoothly without minding the true purpose of UN. Let's change that paradigm.
In the future, I clearly think that National Examination should not be held anymore, due to many contradictions brewing, especially when it is said the tendency is for the education quality development's sake, which sounds so cliche for most people nowadays. However, I wish the absence of UN does not mean that the quality standards at each school will just stay the same or even decrease. The government must put more state budget on education, therefore small schools can develop from within and make their breakthroughs in the future.
(11.29.09, mela)
--------mela was thinking so HARD before she wrote this LOL :D
Labels: assignment, exams, opinion
by mELaa o.O~ at 10:06 AM :)
4 Comments:
semoga aja UN bener2 ditiadakan :p
yess. semoga kalian tak usah menghadapi ujian sialan ituuuu hahaha :p
ni kmu ngeblog ato ada apa gerangan kau menulis ini? mantap kali bhsnya ahahaa
tugas koq eve,
DASAR JURNALISTIK
hahahhaa...
abis ini UAS-nya juga kayak gini
jd post berikut e ya pasti macam ini ahahaha
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