A divide so hard to bridge


THE SPM results are out. So, we can brace now for the annual lament of non-Malays who will have top scorer children unable to get places in the public universities’ matriculation programmes.

It’s likely to be worse this year with more students scoring straight As and the number of matriculation places likely to be unchanged.

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