Education quality matters more than quotas


  • Letters
  • Tuesday, 21 May 2019

I AM writing in response to the Education Minister’s recent remarks linking the continuation of the quota system for the matriculation programme with the existence of unequal job opportunities for bumiputras in the private sector. Various parties have already given their comments and feedback on his remarks but I would like to add my perspective as an employer.

If the problem is with language (the minister claimed that some companies required job applicants to have a knowledge of Mandarin), then it’s not just about the Chinese language but about language skills in general.

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