PM: Government working towards 7% ethnic Indian target in public universities


Najib with the students from SJK(T) Puchong who won awards at the Kaohsiung International Invention and Design Expo in Taiwan and the Indonesian Invention and Innovation Promotion Association.

PUTRAJAYA: The number of Indian students in public institutions has yet to hit the 7% target and the Government will find ways to achieve that number, says Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

"The Government is studying how it could increase fields of study or increase places at public universities or in matriculation schools.

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