Education and the Malay civil service
Malay College prefects of 1938 with their headmaster, Mr C. Bazell (centre). The students were given an education modelled on English public schools-the educational mainstay of English upper class.
At the heginning of the 20th century, the British colonial government in the Federated Malay States (FMS) felt it needed to associate the Malay aristocracy more closely with its administration. The Malay College was thus established at Kuala Kangsar in 1905 to train future administrators. The new administrators were later placed in the Malay Administrative Service (MAS) which was distinctly subordinate to the British-dominated Malayan Civil Service (MCS). In later years, a few MAS officers were promoted into the MCS, and by 1957 many senior government positionshy—both political and bureaucratic—were occupied by former MAS officers.
- Information in the full article includes
- The formulation of a policy
- Education at the Malay College
- The Civil Service experience