PETALING JAYA: Non-exam yr college students who returned residence for the Chinese New Year holidays is not going to be allowed again to their boarding faculties and shall be persevering with with home-based learning, says Education Minister Datuk Dr Radzi Jidin.

He mentioned this was in an effort to hold the learning setting protected for college students who shall be sitting for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examinations in February and March.

He additionally mentioned that the usual working process in boarding faculties was fairly tight however enforcement shall be improved.

At the identical time, he mentioned the ministry has elevated its monitoring in faculties to make sure SOP compliance and cut back the danger of Covid-19 spreading in faculties.

“We know many parents took their children on vacation, balik kampung and other activities this week,” Radzi mentioned.

Thus, dad and mom ought to hold their kids at residence in the event that they present Covid-19 signs as an alternative of sending them to highschool when it reopens subsequent week, he mentioned.

“This is important for us to ensure that the school environment is safe and we can reduce the risk of infection in schools,” he added.

Radzi additionally mentioned that many of the Covid-19 clusters involving establishments below the Education Ministry had been in boarding faculties.

He mentioned 84 out of the 96 training clusters that occurred in establishments below his ministry had been from boarding faculties.

“It is clear that most of the clusters (87.5%) involving institutions under the ministry are clusters that occur in boarding schools,” he mentioned on his Facebook web page yesterday.

In every day boarding faculties, he mentioned there have been 76 clusters with 4,272 circumstances whereas there have been solely eight clusters in full boarding faculties with 495 circumstances.

He added that the 84 clusters solely make up 4.38% of the 1,918 boarding faculties below the ministry.

Though the variety of clusters is excessive, the variety of circumstances is low (4%) in contrast with the full variety of circumstances recorded nationwide – 118,238 circumstances from Jan 1 to Feb 1.

Radzi mentioned there have been two clusters with 68 circumstances recorded in secondary faculties and 10 clusters with 303 circumstances in main faculties.

He added that this was 0.14% of the 303 clusters detected nationwide.

“All of this is based on data from the Health Ministry,” he mentioned.