A student sleeps inside a classroom during the first day of school at an islamic local school in Kuala Lumpur on January 4, 2012. — AFP pic
Its secretary-general Harry Tan Huat Hock said the NUTP had informed the Ministry of Education’s Curriculum Development Division that the khat writing was not tested as a Language Arts Performance Assessment and in the Bahasa Melayu Skills Assessment other than emphasising that learning khat writing for its aesthetic value.
Elaborating, he said the NUTP had invited the BPK for an engagement session on the introduction of khat writing in 2018 and this year. Tan said the purpose of the writing introduced in the Bahasa Melayu curriculum was to develop the skills of students to write beautiful writing in various forms while also incorporating aesthetics in writing.