However, there is no connection between Malaccan Malay as used on Riau and the Riau vernacular.

It also made Malay the official language of the nation, although the right to vernacular education in Chinese and Tamil would be protected.

Sri Lanka Malay ( SLM ) is a restructured vernacular of Malay base spoken by at least five different communities in Sri Lanka which has evolved to be significantly divergent from other varieties of Malay due to intimate contact with the dominant languages of Sinhala and Tamil.

Lat's formal education began at a local Malay kampung school ; these institutions often taught in the vernacular and did not aspire to academic attainment.

The vernacular Malay roof is best suited for hot and humid tropical climate.

Traditional architecture in Singapore includes vernacular Malay houses, local hybrid shophouses and black and white bungalows, a range of places of worship reflecting the ethnic and religious diversity of the city-state as well as colonial civic and commercial architecture in European Neoclassical, gothic, palladian and renaissance styles.

This climatically sensitive approach to architecture traces its roots back to the vernacular Malay houses and through to experiments by British colonial architects and early local nationalist architects to devise an authentically local architecture using modern construction methods.

In Malaysia, Malay and English are taught as compulsory languages from the first year of primary school with the exception of publicly funded vernacular schools ( known as national type schools ).

Henceforward Malay and English would be the only teaching languages in secondary schools, and state primary schools would teach in Malay only.

Mahathir greatly expanded the number of secondary schools and universities throughout the country, and enforced the policy of teaching in Malay rather than English.

The Malay term for schools providing secondary education is sekolah menengah, translated as " secondary school " in English.

Dora speaks primarily in Malay, and the secondary language is English.

Initially, the British colonial government did not provide for any Malay-language secondary schools, forcing those who had studied in Malay during primary school to adjust to an English-language education.

The Razak Report called for a national school system consisting of Malay -, English -, Chinese-and Tamil-medium schools at the primary level, and Malay-and English-medium schools at the secondary schools, with a uniform national curriculum regardless of the medium of instruction.

Large migration to Malay Peninsular occurred during colonial period mostly from Central Java to British Malaya from 1880 to 1930, migration from other parts of Java and secondary migration from Sumatra also taken place during this period.

Heng Ee High School ( SMJK Heng Ee in Malay, 恒 毅 中 学 in Chinese ) is a secondary school located in George Town, Penang.

They are found in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. Their range historically extended from southwest China to Thailand and Burma south to the whole Malay Peninsula in primary and secondary tropical rain forests.

Malay is only offered to non-Malay students as an optional third language in secondary schools.

St. John's Institution ( Malay: Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan St. John ) is a secondary school for boys ( sixth form is co-ed ) and one of the oldest schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The primary schools are formally known in Malay today as Sekolah Kebangsaan St. John ( 1 ) and Sekolah Kebangsaan St. John ( 2 ) while the secondary school is called Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan St. John.

It was an integrated school offering secondary education to an enrolment of 984 pupils and 37 teachers of two streams, in English and Malay. On 29 July 1966, then Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew declared open Yusof Ishak Secondary School ( YISS ) at Jubilee Road.

Classes in Kindergarten and lower primary are taught in Malay, while from upper primary to upper secondary English is used.

There are 3 secondary schools ( SMK Ambrose, SMK Methodist, SMJK Ayer Tawar ) and a dozen primary schools consisting of 3 Tamil primary school, 2 National ( Malay ) and 7 Chinese.

Zhenghua Secondary School ( abbreviation: ZSS ; Simplified Chinese: 正华中学 ; Traditional Chinese: 正華中學 ; pinyin: ZhènghuáZhōngxué ; Malay: Sekolah Menengah Zhenghua ) is a government co-educational secondary school located at Bukit Panjang, Singapore.

Among its objectives was to give opportunities for young Malay students in primary schools, especially those from poor and rural backgrounds, to further their studies at the secondary level.

MCKK ( Malay College Kuala Kangsar ) is one of the high school in Malaysia.

For Chinese independent high schools, their Malay names may contain either " Sekolah Menengah " or " Sekolah Tinggi " ( literally " High School " in Malay ) depending on the school.

In Malaysia, school uniforms ( Malay: Pakaian Seragam Sekolah ) are compulsory for all students who attend public schools.

*" pon "-to skip school / play truant / apon ( from Malay " ponteng ", meaning the same )

Brooke founded a boys ' school in 1903, called the ' Government Lay School ', where Malays could be taught in the Malay language.

Only a few courts exist outside Britain, most notably at Geelong Grammar School in Australia ( the school is often referred to as the ' Eton of Australia '); there are also courts in Geneva, Zurich, Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz, Switzerland, St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, India and Malay College Kuala Kangsar, Malaysia, and two brand new courts have recently been completed in the South of France, in the village of Grillon, Provence.

On 28 September 1905, Sir John officiated the school under the name ‘ The Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School .’

Tunku's formal education started when he was about six years old at the only Malay elementary school in Alor Setar.

Elections for the council were held in 1955, and the Alliance, which had now expanded to include the Malayan Indian Congress ( MIC ), issued a manifesto stating its goals of achieving independence by 1959, requiring a minimum of primary school education for all children, protecting the rights of the Malay rulers as constitutional monarchs, ending the Communist emergency, and reforming the civil service through the hiring of more Malayans as opposed to foreigners.

The Malay College Kuala Kangsar (, abbreviated as Malay College, MCKK ) is a residential school in Malaysia.

Malay College Kuala Kangsar ( MCKK ) is the first fully residential school in Malaysia.

The school was the brainchild of R J Wilkinson, inspector of schools for the Federated Malay States.

In a letter to the resident-general dated 24 February 1904 he wrote about " establishing at a suitable locality in the F. M. S., a special residential school for the education of Malays of good family and for the training of Malay boys for admission to certain branches of Government service ".

On Saturday, 11 December 1909, the Big School was officially opened by the Sultan of Perak, and the auspicious date also marked the change in the name of the school from the Malay Residential School of Kuala Kangsar to the Malay College of Kuala Kangsar.

The " Ode: Celebration for a Malay College ", Burgess had written for the college's 50th anniversary in 1955, " was swiftly expunged from the school's choral repertoire ", when " within months ... he had to leave the school after falling out with the headmaster, JD Howell.

There was also a private Malay school around 1956 at Kampung Melayu, which closed in the late 1970s.

USM is the one of the Malaysian public universities to use term school ( in Malay ; Pusat Pengajian ) instead of the term faculty that is used in other Malaysian public universities.

Although the medium of instruction is now Malay, Penang Free School is the first English-medium school in South East Asia and is the oldest recorded school in the country.