| Malaysia’s matriculation system faces much deeper challenges than the ongoing tussle over ethnic slices of the pie.
The main deficiency in the matriculation system is that it under-equips students academically. However, the programme is providing access to higher education, and to the government’s credit, a large share of students – 60 percent by the latest reports – come from B40 families. To be clear, these are bumiputera B40 students.
The argument also implies that without a quota, more students of other ethnicities can enter matriculation. But this enrols them in the programme she just pointed out was academically deficient. I’m left quite confused. DAP’s Satees Muniandy proposes the reservation of 25,000 slots for bumiputera – with no stance on the role of merit or need in selection – and 7,000 for non-bumiputera. But on the latter, he specifies that entry should be strictly on merit.
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. Second, we should avoid holding narrow, absolutist and dogmatic positions, and instead of campaigning for tertiary educational access on the grounds of rights and guarantees, anchor the process on principles of fairness and justice.
To achieve diversity may require direct measures that consider group identity – not to override academic grades, but as a complementary consideration.
maszlee Again trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. another rush job policy making
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