Field notes, v1753
Page 207
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Slether, R. 1963 Kuala Lumpur Feb. 4 Mr. Sutter told us that a revision of the secondary school science curriculum was under way by a Syllabus Review Committee of the Ministry of Education. Mr. Tan Chin Guan, chairman of the Science subcommittee. The curriculum committee (jr. highschool level) has put out a report which, incidentally, it does not know is being acted upon. Sutter said the decision making power in the education field is very diffuse. Those who make the decisions are not always those in touch with science. Malaya, formerly part of British British Commonwealth has strong ties with the British educational system. However, the ministry is becoming more Malaysianized and is looking to other programs (besides British). There has been a large time lag between changes in science education in Britain to keep pace with modern advances, and what happens in science education in British colonies. I then went to the University, a beautiful new campus 2 1/2 miles out of town. At the zoology department I found Dr. Dhaliwal and a circle of his colleagues discussing what might be done during my brief stay. I told them of my primary mission and of my desire to photograph