Much to do for integration


  • Letters
  • Thursday, 06 May 2004

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced recently that the Government aims to make national schools “the school of choice” as part of a move to ensure quality education and enhance racial integration. Towards this end, the Government will have to study the operations of the vernacular schools for their good points as well as weaknesses, writes SUHAINI AZNAM, who takes an in-depth look at the national-type Chinese and Tamil schools. 

YOUTHS are moulded in infancy so the recent call for integration starting from primary schools is perfectly logical.  

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