PETALING JAYA: The Education Ministry has issued guidelines to schools, teachers, students and parents over the heavy schoolbag issue.
A study it conducted found that pupils in primary schools were lugging around schoolbags that were too heavy, but this was because pupils were bringing more books than scheduled by their timetables.
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