Deterioration of English in Malaysia.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/GH25Ae02.html (check this out for the full article)

This article was published in 2005, what has changed since then?

Excerpts:

"The standard of written and spoken English has deteriorated in the past 30 years," said Ramasamy Palanisamy, professor of political science at the University Kebangsaan Malaysia. "After the 1969 race riots [between Malays and ethnic Chinese], Malaysia switched to the Malay stream for schools and university in 1971. From then on English as a language declined." 

In Malaysia, about 20,000 graduates are estimated to be unemployed because of poor communication skills and most of them are from rural backgrounds. The government is even spending millions of dollars to retrain them in various industrial skills. 

Rather than remain unemployed, many graduates have begun to hide their degree certificates and take lower-paying jobs for which they are considered overqualified - such as with the fire department. 

As the experts had predicted, the performance of rural Malay students had dropped when they were forced to switch to English as the medium of instruction in science and mathematics. More Malays were not making the grade to enter colleges, polytechnics and universities largely because of the sudden switch.