Datuk Radzi Jidin replies to reports saying 72.1% of leavers won’t continue studies

Varsity body also slams requirement for full payments to maintain ‘active student’ status

They beat 77 teams from 23 countries

Instead, ministry aims to focus on school-, classroom-based assessments

Amend Education Act 1996 to make schooling compulsory up to Form 5, one opines

First phase beneficiaries to include B40 individuals undertaking diploma, degree programmes

This due to weaknesses at planning, pre-building, implementation stages, says auditor-general

Academic says he’ll continue to lend expertise to Malaysia despite selection to Saudi Arabia-based body

Many students refused from programme outright despite scoring between 9, 11 As in SPM examination

Those who earn first-class bachelor’s degrees from 2019 onwards to get privilege

Datuk Idris Ahmad says he met finance minister to inform on the matter

This follows MoH proposal of RM4 in peninsula, RM5 in Sabah, Sarawak, Labuan

Datuk Radzi Jidin says district officer visits are to find solutions to problems