Excellent scores for Linus in its first year

KUALA LUMPUR: The Literacy and Numeracy (Linus) programme, an initiative under the GTP’s Education NKRA to improve student outcomes, is seeing encouraging results in its first year of implementation.

Designed to ensure a higher level of literacy and numeracy amongst school-going children, it achieved a score of 85% for literacy (with 406,980 pupils passing the screening) and 91% for numeracy (with 380,363 pupils passing the screening) in Primary 1.