I read an article on Times of India today (15th June 2008). The extract of the article is as follows.
CHENNAI: The students with Tamil as their mother tongue manage to score better in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). According to British Council, which organises IELTS world wide, the Tamil students outperformed all others in the country and managed to get marks better than the national average in IElTS for academics.
"IELTS is taken by students who want to pursue higher studies in foreign countries which has English as first language. In India, 1,60,000 students write IELTS annually. More than 10,000 students appear for the test from TN.
The Tamil students managed to score an overall average of 6.21 in IELTS, which is more than the national average of 5.97. The IELTS allows the student to score a maximum mark of 9 in streams like listening, re writing and speaking. Hindi speaking students have come second to Tamils in the overall average score followed by Keraliites.
"Tamils have proved their mettle in reading all sections of the tests, reading and speaking, Tamils proved better," Anish said.
The number of Tamil students taking IELTS has also gone up considerably over the past few years, following an upsurge in the number of students seeking admission in Western and American Universities in recent years. According to sources, the education fairs held by foreign universities in Chennai has attracted a lot more students to apply for higher studies abroad.
The above extract shows the keenness shown by Tamilians on studying English Language. English language gives wider knowledge. Broaden our views.
The many Malaysian Tamils do not have good command of English Language. Many knows Tamil and Malay Languages only. It is an unfortunate that the two known languages do not give sufficient worldly knowledge.
Secondly, the above article do inform the keenness shown by Tamils of Tamil Nadu to send their children to study overseas.
In Malaysia, only if there is no PTPTN loan there may be many Tamilians, cannot even go to Kuala Lumpur for studies. Just imagine how backward we Tamilians in Malaysian.
Our savings towards education is low. May be, low income can be a contributing factor but lack of emphasis for education can be another factor because many will spend lavishly for Deepavali in October or November but will how unwillingness in January for children education.
Investment on human resources is the most important investment to remain competetitive.
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It is clearly understood that some parents give the least importance towards savings and child education. Why? How would do these things when they struggle to live their life. But those who are earning well rarely neglect this two priorities. Some begin saving for their child education once the child is born. It all depends on affordability. Anyhow there are a number who are not willing to sacrifice their astro and entertainment for the sake of their child's education.
Why some Malaysian students cannot read, speak and write English? Its because of the education system which over emphasised on bm. Parents don't speak english at home. Students don't read english newspapers. They don't listen to english songs or watch movies other than tamil. If tamil students in india can do well its definitely because of their standard of english in school.
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