MCA suggests doing away racial quotas for pre-U courses
Afterschool
June 29, 2012
- MCA education bureau secretary Chong Sin Woon suggested racial quotas for entry into matriculation programmes and foundation courses for public universities should be scrapped except UiTM.
- "Since 2003, entry for non-bumiputras in matriculation programmes is set at 10%. As for asasi courses, many of them are only open to bumiputras. Of late, asasi programmes are open to non-bumiputras but there is a quota on them," he said.
- He stated that MCA had no problem with UiTM as part of affirmative action to help bumiputras but other public universities should not limit enrolment of non-bumis.
- Besides that, MCA also raised the matter of poor Bahasa Malaysia and English among Chinese school students.
- Even though it is important to protect the Chinese language, it is crucial to be competent in English and Malay.
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