The matriculation mess and overhauling pre-university admissions | The Malaysian Insight

MALAYSIA’S matriculation system faces much deeper challenges than the ongoing tussle over ethnic slices of the pie.

Lately, various people and organisations have vocally pressed for an increase to the 10% non-Bumiputera quota, or have brought various criticisms and proposals to the public domain. Others are defending the 90% Bumiputera quota. The cabinet has just decided to keep the status quo, but increase overall enrolment. The government punts the problem into the future – but all sides are also presenting rather parochial and half-baked ideas.

A group of 20 DAP leaders take the STPM case further, calling for a 50-50 share of STPM and matriculation in university admissions immediately, and for the eventual replacement of the matriculation system with STPM. They also propose needs-based rather than race-based selection criteria.

The complexity of the matriculation programme’s woes complicates the crafting of compromises and constructive solutions. However, the following three elements are clear to me. Construing university education as a basic right is problematic. It is not compulsory, unlike primary schooling, and at some point, secondary as well. We cannot expect government to guarantee every applicants’ admission at the tertiary level, let alone in one specific programme like matriculation.

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