UMNO Youth has urged DAP deputy chairman Nga Kor Ming to first understand the National Education Policy before calling for the recognition of the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC), saying the certificate does not meet key policy principles.
UMNO Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh said the government should not consider recognising the UEC when it clearly fails to comply with the policy’s core conditions.
He said the policy is built on three principles: Malay as the main medium of instruction; a unified, nation-oriented curriculum; a tandardised examination system.
“For Kor Ming’s information, the UEC meets none of these three principles. So how can we recognise it?” he said in a Facebook video.
Akmal said Malaysia is the only country, unlike Singapore, that still has vernacular schools within its national education framework.
He added that the government had allowed UEC to operate privately since 1975, and over the years had accepted it for limited purposes such as entry into private universities, Chinese language teaching programmes at IPG, and for the 2019 legal qualifying exam (PSAG).
He stressed these exceptions do not justify formal recognition.
“To the Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim — do not proceed. As long as UEC does not meet national policy requirements, there is no need to recognize it,” he said.
Media reports say Nga is seeking a meeting with Anwar to raise the matter again.
