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Ministry of Culture, Community & Youth
Parliamentary Matters

Providing quality education for our madrasah students

Sectors

Community

20 January 2015

Response to parliamentary question on enrolment at full-time madrasahs

Question

Mr Muhamad Faisal Abdul Manap: To ask the Minister for Communications and Information and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs (a) for each year from 2012 to 2014, what is the Primary 1 student enrolment figure for each of the full-time madrasahs; and (b) what are some of the measures that MUIS has put in place to encourage such enrolments.

Response

  1. Minister Dr Yaacob Ibrahim: On average, Madrasah Alsagoff Al-Arabiah enrolled about 30 Primary 1 students each year from 2012 to 2014 whereas Madrasah Al-Maarif Al-Islamiah enrolled about 67 students and Madrasah Al-Irsyad Al-Islamiah, which is under the Joint Madrasah System (JMS), admitted about 204 students each year during the same period.

  2. Madrasahs Aljunied Al-Islamiah and Al-Arabiah Al-Islamiah ceased taking in Primary 1 students from 2009 when these madrasahs became part of the Joint Madrasah System, under which they only take in secondary school students.

  3. Madrasah Wak Tanjong Al-Islamiah did not enrol any Primary 1 students between 2012 and 2014. Under the Compulsory Education (CE) Act, our full-time madrasahs are required to meet the annual PSLE benchmark in order to continue to admit students at Primary 1, and Madrasah Wak Tanjong Al-Islamiah did not meet the benchmark in the assessment period of 2008 to 2010. Madrasah Wak Tanjong Al-Islamiah has since met the benchmarks and has started admitting students at Primary 1 in 2015.

  4. The madrasah education system requires primary students to take 5 additional Islamic subjects on top of the 4 PSLE subjects. The madrasahs conduct admissions tests to ensure that students who they enrol will be able to cope well with the demands of the curriculum. In total, Primary 1 enrolment of the full-time madrasahs caters for up to 400 places.

  5. MUIS, together with the madrasahs, are committed to providing a quality education for our madrasah students. Besides recruiting and retaining quality teachers, MUIS also invests in the professional development of madrasah leaders and teachers.

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