Let’s move to needs-based education system instead, Muda says after Anwar backs Bumi quotas in universities
- MUDA
- July 11, 2023
- 6:30 pm
The Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (Muda) has today urged a shift in the country’s education system to a needs-based and merit-based approach, after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said the Bumiputera quotas in universities will remain.
Criticising the current ethnic-based approach, its president Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said three have been many cases of straight-A students who failed to secure a place in public matriculation programmes — but were offered spots in top global universities instead.
“We don’t want to hear any more if you get a four flat or straight-As you can get a place in the leading universities in the world like Harvard, but then you are excluded from matriculation or foundation programmes in public universities in Malaysia.
“To solve this problem, Muda suggests that we transition from a purely race-based system to a hybrid needs-based and merit-based system,” he told a press conference here.
