Leadership needed in UEC recognition

THE current hot debate on whether the Education Ministry should grant official recognition to the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) is not only getting toxic, but is threatening to turn racist.

Churning an education matter into a political issue is already bad enough, to add racial slant to the subject is both divisive and damaging for this multiracial country. This should be avoided at all costs by all stakeholders – the Government, politicians, Malay NGOs, Chinese educationists and opinion writers.