Excluding students with disabilities from tertiary education an 'injustice' - Maszlee

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Ex-minister says this deviates from his time in office when there was a special channel for OKU to apply to universities.

It is an “injustice” for student candidates with disabilities to be excluded and segregated from pursuing tertiary education, former education minister Maszlee Malik said.

He was responding to an article yesterday where a student group claimed a student was denied the chance to pursue her tertiary education at a public university due to her physical disability.

 

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