‘Compulsory education should be raised to Form Five’

KUALA LUMPUR: To stop child marriage, legislation change must be backed by other measures including raising the mandatory age for education, a forum on child marriage here heard.

Currently, only the six years of primary education is compulsory but it should be made mandatory until Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) level, said panellists at the “Child Marriage: Happily Never After” forum by the Bar Council Child Rights Committee and the European Union Delegation to Malaysia. .