SHAH ALAM, Nov 20 — Around 150,000 Form Four and Form Five students will benefit from the Selangor People’s Tuition Programme (PTRS), offered free of charge via a RM10 million allocation next year.
Yayasan Menteri Besar Selangor (Incorporated) or MBI head Ahmad Azri Zainal Nor said the eight subjects under PTRS meet the needs of around 300 secondary schools and schools under the Selangor Islamic Religious Department.
The development of new modules for Physics and Chemistry will begin at the end of this month through a series of workshops organised by the Selangor Education Department (JPNS).
“So, in total, the modules we have for next year are eight: Bahasa Melayu, English, Mathematics, Science, History, Additional Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry.
“There are three workshop phases: teacher engagement, draft refinement, and final review before printing. Our target is for the modules to be supplied to schools by March or April at the latest,” he said.
The state government has allocated RM3 million, while Yayasan MBI has allocated another RM3 million to implement the free programme.
During the tabling of the 2026 Selangor Budget on Friday (November 14), the two new subjects were introduced to strengthen mastery in the sciences and support the development of a more comprehensive curriculum.
The ePTRS platform, which provides digital learning resources like e-books, teaching and learning (PdP) videos, and final revision videos, will also be enhanced.
Addressing 3M issues
Similarly, a literacy and numeracy intervention programme for pupils who have not yet mastered the 3M skills (reading, writing and arithmetic) will also be implemented in over 600 schools next year.
Azri added that the initiative, carried out under the Didik Kasih Programme (PDK), a branch of PTRS, focuses on Year Two pupils and above from remedial classes.
“The Education Ministry (MOE) has its own curriculum intervention programme for Year One. So we are focusing on Year Two to Year Six,” he said.
MBI is currently awaiting the latest data from JPNS, as the number of affected pupils has declined this year following interventions implemented since last year.
Azri noted that the foundation is also actively developing literacy modules for Year One pupils to support the MOE in meeting the needs of that group.
In the state budget, the literacy and numeracy intervention programme continues for pupils who have not yet mastered these skills through a RM1 million allocation.
It has benefited 25,000 pupils so far across 661 Ministry of Education schools throughout Selangor.
