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Students allowed to wear sports clothes for co-curricular activities

Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek says this will ease the burden on parents if they cannot afford the attire for the uniformed bodies once the new school session begins.

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Parents shop for school uniforms ahead of the new school session in Kuantan, March 11. Photo: Bernama
Parents shop for school uniforms ahead of the new school session in Kuantan, March 11. Photo: Bernama

The education ministry will allow students to wear appropriate sports attire to participate in co-curricular activities at school, says minister Fadhlina Sidek.

She said this was to ease the burden on students and parents if they could not afford to buy the attire for uniformed bodies for the new school session that starts on March 20.

"So we agree that if they cannot afford it, they should wear appropriate clothes, sports clothes of their school to attend and follow all the programmes in school," she told reporters in Nilai yesterday.

She said the ministry pays serious attention to the welfare of students in addition to the areas that can be improved, adding that it does not want the issue to become a burden to the students and deny them their education.

On complaints about the delay in the results announcement for full boarding schools to be released on March 17, Fadhlina said the date was reasonable, adding that there was no issue of insufficient time to prepare to go to the new school.