Foreign parents have faith in Malaysia’s independent Chinese schools

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A MERE 694 or 0.87% out of a total enrollment of 79,700 in 2022 may seem like a pathetic figure although that speaks volume of faith that foreign parents have in Malaysia’s independent Chinese schools which are grappling with the reluctance of the government to recognise their Unified Examination Certificate (UEC).

Recall that Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek had recently remarked in the Dewan Rakyat that the unity government is still not ready to recognise the UEC nor provide allocation for independent Chinese secondary schools only for mainstream Chinese-language daily Sin Chew Daily to berate her ‘inexperience’.

Even against such backdrop of uncertainty, parents who know how to treasure the high standard of education – and not forgetting discipline – at Malaysian independent Chinese schools have no qualm whatsoever to enroll their children there.

Yesterday (Feb 23), Dong Zong or the United Chinese School Committees’ Association of Malaysia president Tan Tai Kim told Sin Chew Daily that there are currently 694 foreign students studying at 63 indepen

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