South China Morning Post
AsiaPac · 4 hrs ago
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Malaysia’s new university rules rekindle multilingualism debate
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Malaysia's government has revised public university admission rules to allow students from Chinese-language secondary schools to apply using their UEC qualification, reigniting debate over the role of Chinese-language education in the national system.
Malaysia’s new university rules rekindle multilingualism debate
A revision to Malaysia’s public university admissions rules has reopened one of the multicultural country’s most sensitive political debates: how far its national education system should accommodate Chinese-language schooling.
Malaysia’s government on May 15 said students from Chinese independent secondary schools could apply to public universities through specified pathways using the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC), the school-leaving qualification used by those institutions.
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