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KUALA LUMPUR: Enrollment of non-Chinese students in Chinese vernacular schools registered an increasing trend in 2020 compared to 2010, says Education Minister Dr. Mohd Radzi Md Jidin (Photo).
In a written response in Parliament, Mohd Radzi said that according to data from the Ministry of Education, the enrollment trend among Malaysian students in these schools showed an increase from 9.5% in 2010 to 15.33% this year.
For Indian students, the data showed an increase from 1.67% to 2.75% in the same period.
Data for the other careers showed an increase from 1.02% in 2010 to 1.67% in 2020.
“However, the percentage of enrollment of Chinese students in Chinese vernacular schools showed a decrease from 88.16% in 2010 to 80.25% in 2020,” Mohd Radzi told Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad (PH-Setiawangsa).
Nik Nazmi had asked the Ministry to declare the distribution of national schools, Chinese and Tamil vernacular schools and private schools.
For Tamil vernacular schools, the majority of students were Indian students (99%).
“The participation of Malays, Chinese and other races is less than 1% in the same period,” he said.
Meanwhile, for private schools, Chinese students recorded the highest number with 65.88% in 2020, followed by Malays, including Sabah and Sarawak (26.96%), Indians (4%) and other races (3 , 17%).
“The participation of Malaysian students has shown an increase of 0.65% while Chinese students showed a downward trend of 0.44% while Indian students also decreased by 0.21% compared to 2019” , said.
He also said that the trend showed that Malaysian student enrollment in the national school between 2010 and 2020 was between 93% and 94%.
“Chinese student enrollment shows a downward trend from 1.17% in 2010 to 0.73% in 2020.
“Indian student enrollment also dropped from 3.15% to 2.63% in the same period.
“As for the other careers, it shows a slight increase from 2% in 2010 to 2.84% in 2020,” he said.
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