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All primary schools and two-thirds of secondary schools will offer conversational Chinese and Malay classes in the next four years.
Education Minister Ng Eng Hen announced the expansion of the Conversational Chinese and Malay (CCM) programme at the the racial harmony day celebrations at Elias Park Primary School on Monday.
The Ministry of Education launched the CCM programme in 2005 to allow students to pick up languages which are not their Mother Tongues.
'As a whole, feedback from students has been very positive, with students using their new language skills to communicate and interact more with schoolmates of different races and from different countries in the region,'said Dr Ng.
The number of schools offering the programme has increased almost three fold, from 184 in 2006 to 488 now.
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