{"id":82460,"date":"2015-07-03T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T04:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=82460"},"modified":"2015-07-03T12:20:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T04:20:42","slug":"bilingual-education-the-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=82460","title":{"rendered":"Bilingual education the way to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I REFER to Hassan Talibs \u0153School system neither here nor there\u009d (NST, June 30). No one will dispute the fact that the countrys standard of written and spoken English has declined considerably in the last few decades. Many will also agree that there is an urgent need to improve our collective competence in the language.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1eo9Tmh\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I REFER to Hassan Talibs \u0153School system neither here nor there\u009d (NST, June 30). No one will dispute the fact that the countrys standard of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82461,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82460\/revisions\/82461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}