{"id":15201,"date":"2013-09-24T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T07:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buletinonline.net\/v7\/?p=15201"},"modified":"2013-09-24T16:30:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T08:30:33","slug":"rm20m-consultancy-fees-for-national-education-blueprint-a-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/rm20m-consultancy-fees-for-national-education-blueprint-a-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"RM20m consultancy fees for National Education Blueprint a waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RM20 million a private consultancy pocketed for preparing the National Education Blueprint (NEB) was a \u201ccomplete waste\u201d of taxpayers\u2019 money, according a critical federal lawmaker today.<\/p>\n<p>DAP\u2019s Ong Kian Ming further criticised the government for engaging McKinsey and Co to prepare the education blueprint, pointing out that the firm\u2019s staff are not education specialists but merely general management consultants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/A94E8161.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15202 alignright\" alt=\"A94E8161\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/A94E8161-300x199.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>He said the project management office (PMO) could have asked other \u201chigh-powered\u201d individuals from the Education Ministry and the government\u2019s efficiency unit Pemandu to prepare the blueprint, instead of hiring external consultants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurely the PMO could have utilised its many capable resources within the Ministry and Pemandu to prepare this National Education Blueprint?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy waste RM20 million on employing expensive management consultants?\u201d the Serdang MP asked in a statement today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe role of McKinsey is not even documented in the National Education Blueprint (NEB),\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a written parliamentary reply by the Ministry of Education to his question yesterday, Ong said the RM20,556 million was given to McKinsey and Co in two phases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call upon the minister to explain why RM20 million was [spent] on McKinsey and whether he plans to continue to use the services of McKinsey in implementing the National Education Blueprint,\u201d Ong said -themalaymailonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RM20 million a private consultancy pocketed for preparing the National Education Blueprint (NEB) was a \u201ccomplete waste\u201d of taxpayers\u2019 money, according a critical federal lawmaker today. DAP\u2019s Ong Kian Ming further criticised the government for engaging McKinsey and Co to prepare the education blueprint, pointing out that the firm\u2019s staff are not education specialists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":15203,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":640,"height":394,"file":"2013\/09\/Laporan-Awal-Pelan-Pembangunan-Pendidikan-Malaysia-2013-2025-2+speakerpecah.jpg","filesize":84797,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":15201,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Laporan-Awal-Pelan-Pembangunan-Pendidikan-Malaysia-2013-2025-2+speakerpecah.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}