It appears that more Bumiputera students are being enrolled into SJKC schools, as revealed by the Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek.
The Minister announced this in a written parliamentary reply on Tuesday (July 9), in regards to the enrollment of students in schools according to racial breakdowns as compared to 10 years ago.
She wrote, “For the past 10 years, national schools (SK) has shown an increase in the enrollment of Bumiputera students from 93.81% in 2014 to 95.12% in 2024, while non-Bumipetra students has shown a decrease from 6.19% in 2014 to 4.88% in 2024.”
“For students of Chinese-type national schools (SJKC), an increase of Bumiputera students can be seen from 11.67% in 2014 to 18.52% in 2024. Non-Bumiputera students at SJKC has shown a decrease from 88.33% in 2014 to 81.48% in 2024.”
She also added that the enrollment of Bumiputera students to Tamil-type national schools (SJKT) have also increased from 0.38% in 2014 to 0.49% in 2024, while non-Bumiputera students remain the same at 99%.
This comes after Raub MP Chow Yu Hui requested for the statistics of the number or percentage of students studying in SJKCs and SJKTs according to racial breakdown, from 2004 to 2024.
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