3rd Essay

 QUALITY EDUCATION : EDUCATION FOR ALL

        Over the past 2 decades, there has been a massive progress in achieving the target of universal primary education. The total enrolment rate in developing country reached above 90% and the worldwide number of children out of school has dropped by almost half. There has also been a precipitously increase in literacy rates and many more girls are are in school than ever before. These are such a surprising and worth mentioning successes. Providing an efficient and best quality of education is vital as education is one of the most powerful weapon and proven vehicles to achieve on sustainable development goals. 

         In Malaysia, there is an act known as Education Act 1966 that makes 6 years of primary education compulsory for all children of Malaysian citizens who are at the age of 6 years old until 12 years old. Every 5 years before the Government Election of Malaysia, there will be manifestation to make sure that everyone gets the education they deserve for from every politic parties. We should be very grateful and thankful that Malaysia has a very good quality of education be it for local or international students, be it under the government or private sector. 

        Yet, not everything is perfectly in order. There would absolutely exist of trials and tribulations in achieving its goal of making education more inclusive and comprehensive in accessibility since there are quite an amount of students from remote and rural area that could not afford to go to school. These marginalised communities get less access to a proper education due to the long distance of their schools as well as lack of infrastructure and facilities in that particular schools. Students from a higher level of education is also in need of special path in order to pursue their study in the university, searching for any future potential career and more. Sometimes, their fulfillment in education requirement seems to be not enough to compete for the job market. It is also becoming a burden and hassle for the teachers to teach at the remote area with full of workloads and responsibilities due to the devoid of teaching staff by each year. 

        More issues arise due to the spreading of Coronavirus outbreak in our country. Students are required to study at home when the government introducing online distance learning (ODL) where everything is conducted virtually to avoid any close direct contact to avoid any potential of second wave of this unseen enemy. The internet accessibility seems to be a major problem to make this as a smooth reality. Hence, the government had come to the initiative to give free internet accessibility with certain limitation to make sure it is beneficial to everyone who learns and works from home. Actually, many more challenges have yet to come. Is our government ready enough to tackle all of these successfully? 

           In Islam, seeking knowledge is an obligation and a part of necessities upon every Muslim despite their background of upbringing and level of age. The Prophet Muhammad PBUH once said, "Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim". Even the very first verse in the Quran urges people to seek knowledge where Allah swt mentioned in the al-Quran, surah al-Iqra verse 1, "Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created". Allah swt will absolutely ease and open up many ways in order for the people to learn, search for guidance and references in the name of Allah swt as mentioned by Prophet Muhammad PBUH, "Whoever follows a path in the pursuit of knowledge, Allah will make a path to Jannah easy for him". Thus, there should not be any existence of reason for someone not putting effort to at least learn something in their life. The right authorities should as well put their maximum effort to make sure everyone get the least bare minimum of level education so that no one could easily being exploited and manipulated. It is an individual right to get their best education be it for children, women, the disabled and less fortune.