Lim Hui Ying determined to raise standard of national education

PUTRAJAYA: The new Deputy Education Minister, Lim Hui Ying, has pledged to provide the best service to boost the standard of national education.

Lim said she would also fully support Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek to ensure that the agenda to improve the quality of national education is achieved.

"I will help the minister raise the standard of education in this country. We will do our best.

"I am grateful to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for his confidence in me," she said when met at the ministry here today.

Lim, who is also the Tanjong Member of Parliament clocked in for official duties today at 8.25 am.

She was greeted by Fadhlina and the ministry's secretary-general Datuk Yusran Shah Mohd Yusof and director-general of Education Datuk Pkharuddin Ghazali.

Lim was among 27 deputy ministers who took the oath of office before the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah, at Istana Negara, last Saturday.

-- BERNAMA