Bersatu Youth chief wants vernacular schools abolished

Newly minted Bersatu Youth chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal today reiterated that his party wing wants vernacular schools to be phased out.

In a statement today, Wan Fayhsal, who is also the deputy youth and sports minister, said although the Education Act 1996 did not allow the education minister to abolish such schools, the government must take note of the "negative perception" that vernacular schools have purportedly failed to produce students who are nationalistic.