Malaysians split on single-stream education, survey finds

Malaysians have split down the middle when it comes to the idea of doing away with vernacular schools, with the top reason for opposition being fear of discrimination in single-stream schools, a survey found.

A Malaysiakini-commissioned survey found 51 percent of respondents supported the idea of only having single-stream education, while 49 percent did not.

The biggest resistance came from ethnic Chinese respondents, with two-thirds opposing the idea, while only 53 percent of ethnic Indian respondents did not support it, the survey by research firm Vase.ai found.

A small majority of bumiputera respondents (58 percent) supported single-stream education.

By Aidila Razak, Malaysiakini, 22 August 2019