Concerned for Malaysia’s ‘lost generation’


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The Covid-19 pandemic has accentuated all the gaps and crevices that have existed in Malaysian society since time immemorial. What we are experiencing is not necessarily “new”. It is just that the current climate has made old wounds fester again, and we are bleeding quicker than ever.

One particular issue that makes me want to throw a couple of (left blank for your imagination) against the wall is the declining quality of our children’s education.

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schoolchildren , literacy , illiteracy

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