‘Ensure future of our kids’


PETALING JAYA: Experts have called for affirmative action in education to remain in any review of the New Economic Policy (NEP) but urged the Government to learn from past mistakes when helping businesses.

Prof Dr Edmund Terence Gomez of Universiti Malaya’s Faculty of Economics and Administration said the NEP’s approach of giving bumiputra children access to better education has been a success story in slashing poverty and creating a vibrant middle class in the country.

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