At last Cabinet has realized the importance of ENGLISH. It has introduced English medium Advanced level classes in 50 schools from 2008. Better late than never. We hope they will expand the policy to cover all schools and all classes in time to come. Once they recruit graduates and train them as teachers, the students will be immensely benefited.

The government should have started teaching in the ENGLISH medium not from the tail end - Advanced level, but from the year one onwards. Universities must make it compulsory to study ENGLISH for all undergraduates, and empower them with proficiency in ENGLISH to face the job market in the private sector. Universities should not produce monolingual graduates who ask for government jobs once they get their degrees.