PETALING JAYA: Appropriate intervention measures to address dangerous behaviours in college students together with the addiction to mobile video games and digital gadgets have been applied, says the Education Ministry.
For this function, the ministry mentioned steerage and counselling lecturers in faculties have launched into a targeted counselling programme as an intervention measure for college kids.
“The approaches such as guidance, counselling, and continuous intervention will help a student who is involved (in these activities) engage towards a positive behavioural change,” it mentioned in a written reply within the Dewan Rakyat on Thursday (March 10).
Lukanisman Awang Sauni (GPS – Sibuti) had requested whether or not the ministry was wanting into the issues of mobile game and digital gadgets addiction among college students underneath the age of 18.
The ministry added that school authorities too have launched into numerous programmes and actions to encourage a wholesome way of life consisting of sports activities and co-curricular actions.
Among the actions which are being applied are akin to management programs, sports activities, video games and artwork actions.
“The involvement of students in these activities will prevent them from engaging in unhealthy activities such as addiction to mobile games and digital devices,” it mentioned.
To management using digital gadgets by college students, the ministry mentioned that they don’t enable for mobile telephones to be introduced to school areas together with hostels.
It mentioned that they’ve additionally issued round containing tips for college kids bringing private gadgets to school through the educating and studying (PdPR) interval in faculties.
It added that the Program Ekspresi Anak Remaja Lestari (PEARL) can also be being applied with the goals of addressing risking behaviours among college students via early detection, acceptable intervention strategies and built-in monitoring.
The ministry additionally mentioned that the function of oldsters and guardians are additionally necessary to address this challenge as college students are outdoors education hours more often than not and are within the care of their households.
“With this, the cooperation of parents and guardians are also important to educate, control and monitor their children including the responsible use of digital devices,” it mentioned, including that the ministry additionally encourages the cooperations between the school authorities with the Parents and Teachers Association in addition to the group in planning and implementing acceptable programmes to take care of these points.
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