Non-bumi quota in residential schools won’t be increased - The Star

KUALA PILAH: There is no need to increase the enrolment of non-bumiputra students in government residential schools, said Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.

He said it was difficult to produce a formula that could please everyone and that the present arrangement would remain.

“If we talk about residential schools, then people will start talking about the exclusivity of the religious schools and the SJKC and SJKT schools.

“I, for one, am happy with the diversity as this is our strength ... we should celebrate this diversity,” he said after visiting SM Sains Tuanku Ja’afar near here.

Hishammuddin was asked if more non-bumiputras should be allowed to study in residential schools which normally did better that normal schools in the academic field.

Of the country’s 54 residential schools, only the Mara Junior Colleges reserved 10% of its seats for non-bumiputra students.

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