Education

Flood-damaged textbooks to be replaced for free: Radzi

Education minister says his ministry will ensure immediate process

Updated 4 years ago · Published on 07 Jan 2022 2:23PM

Flood-damaged textbooks to be replaced for free: Radzi
Senior Education Minister Datuk Dr Radzi Jidin says his ministry has enough stock to replace the damaged books to enable students to follow the teaching and learning sessions beginning next week. – Radzi Jidin Instagram pic, January 7, 2022

KUALA LUMPUR – Students whose textbooks were damaged in the floods would get a replacement for free, said Senior Education Minister Datuk Dr Radzi Jidin.

He said the ministry would ensure that efforts to replace the damaged textbooks would be done immediately to enable teaching and learning (PdP) sessions to run smoothly and in an orderly manner.

“Based on the Education Ministry’s (MoE) record up till today, a total of 263,662 copies of textbooks were damaged due to floods, involving 14,422 students nationwide.

“MoE has enough stock to replace the damaged books to enable students to follow the PdP sessions beginning next week,” he said in a video posted on his official Facebook page today.

He said the ministry had been receiving many inquiries regarding textbooks that were damaged as a result of the floods that hit several states recently.  – Bernama, January 7, 2022

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