Pejabat Pendidikan Daerah Kuching / Nur Fitri Afeeza Beduan

Living in the country that have people with various characteristics from different background such as multicultural and multi religious will definitely give impacts towards education system in Malaysia itself. Education is compulsory to everyone. Apart from that, the ministry of education is under of federal government. Meanwhile, the education department for every district will be under State government. Next, the education system in Malaysia is divided into various stages, such as preschool, primary education, secondary education, post-secondary education and lastly the tertiary education. Back in the year of the education being established, sekolah pondok, madrasah and other Islamic school are among the earliest school in Malaysia. Then, during the British colonial government, there were innovation in education system. The history of education in Sarawak started under the Brooke rules back in the year 1814 until 1946, and then continued under British administration from the year 1946 until the formation of Malaysia in 1963. Furthermore, education system Brooke administration were focusing on the government workforce and to develop the standard of living among the society in Sarawak. Apart from that, the plural school system in Sarawak has been set their main specifications such as; Malays education, Native education, Chinese education, Indian education and English education. As for the administration of ministry of education Sarawak, it has being divided into five part for all districts in Sarawak. Kuching district education office (Pejabat Pendidikan Daerah Kuching) falls under the first part of the division. Somehow, the districts education office has been restructured into two parts which is Pejabat pelajaran Gabungan(PPG) and Pejabat Pelajaran Daerah Kecil(PPDK) on 2003. There were 90 schools under Kuching district education office which consist of 64 primary schools and 26 secondary schools.