[1][2] As with other government schools, they follow the unified national curriculum, with the teaching of the Malay and English languages as compulsory subjects.
Later in 1870 more Tamil schools were started in Province Wellesley, North Johor, Negeri Sembilan state.
The children, on leaving the Tamil primary school, were absorbed into the working milieu of the plantations.
Furthermore, the colonial government was intending to keep the Indians in the plantations and had no interest in providing education beyond the primary level.
The law emphasised on free mother tongue education and increased the grant provision to Tamil schools.
As Malaya began to move towards self-government and eventual independence, efforts were made to develop a national education policy.
The Barnes Report, published in 1951 and enacted as the Education Ordinance of 1952, proposed a national school system with Malay and English as mediums of instruction, with the exclusion of Chinese and Tamil schools, which the Chinese and Indians protested.
The Fenn-Wu Report, which allowed the retention of Chinese and Tamil schools, elicited protest from the Malays.
In 2003, the government introduced the policy of teaching Science and Mathematics subjects in English in all schools.
This was protested by education groups that advocate the use of mother tongues as mediums of instruction in schools.