KUALA LUMPUR – The Education Ministry is looking into amending the rules on school admission to ensure children, including non-citizens and those undocumented, have access to education.
Minister Fadhlina Sidek said the amendment to the Education Regulations (Admission of Pupils to School, Register Keeping and Conditions for Retaining Pupils at School) 1998 will apply to admission to government and government-aided schools.
“This amendment will ensure that children in this country have access to education, guided by the existing laws, without compromising the country’s sovereignty and constitution.
“... It includes non-citizen children, with undetermined citizenship status, and children without identification documents who were previously not included under the regulations,” she said in winding up the debate on the Human Rights Commission’s 2020 annual report for her ministry in the Dewan Rakyat today.
Fadhlina said her ministry was in the midst of looking into ways to enable refugee children to enrol in schools through the amendment.
Meanwhile, Fadhlina said the ministry will not tolerate and has always been proactive in dealing with the spread of “LGBT ideology” in schools.
She said various cross-ministerial programmes related to education on sexual and reproductive health awareness have been implemented. – Bernama, June 14, 2023
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