Education minister: Nearly 40 pct of students don't own a device for e-learning

An Education Ministry survey revealed that 36.9 percent of up to 900,000 students affected by school closures due to the Covid-19 outbreak have no access to an electronic device for e-learning purposes.

According to Education Minister Radzi Jidin, the survey of students from 670,000 households found that only six percent or around 54,000 of them have access to a personal computer.