COMMENT | Will elites still enable bumi apathy in education?

“The main problem when it came to education among the Malays was apathy.”

- Anuar Ahmad, deputy chairperson of the Bumiputera Economic Congress secretariat on education reform and human capital

COMMENT | Recent public comments emanating from the Bumiputera Economic Congress secretariat surprisingly point to the dysfunction of Malay uber alles policies of successive governments.

Collating data from 8,600 respondents on issues faced by the majority community when it comes to education, the secretariat found that apathy, lack of interest in math and science, and lack of family support led to the majority community or at least a large segment of it, being left behind.