The intake into matriculation colleges can be increased, but students must pass an exam that is on a par with STPM.
Seemingly, PKR president Anwar Ibrahim too has lost his ability to count and rationalise public policies. I am referring to his explanation on increasing the number of students for matriculation from 25,000 to 40,000 but maintaining the quota at 90% for Malays and Bumiputeras.
Let’s make a quick summary of the numbers. The present intake of 25,000 is made up of 2,500 non-Malays and 22,500 Malays, based on the quota system imposed. The original intent was to increase the non-Malay intake into matriculation programmes. But the so-called “expanding pie” will increase the Malay intake by 13,500 while the number of non-Malays will increase only by 1,500.
How about the fact that 40,000 students will be sitting for an easier exam when compared with 25,000 previously? Surely 40,000 will take away more university places meant for those sitting for STPM rather than if the number had been only 25,000.We say we want to increase the intake of non-Malays into matriculation out of fairness. But we end up taking in even more Malays than non-Malays.
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