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                                <title><![CDATA[ 'Meaningless and deceitful': Anwar slammed over 'guaranteed' matriculation spots for non-Bumis ]]></title>
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                                <description><![CDATA[ A rights advocate and an education pressure group say the 10As caveat means that nothing will change in the plight of non-Bumiputera students denied entry to public universities. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Malaysia's hopes of becoming high-tech nation still distant amid high failure rate in maths ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2024 04:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Experts cite the lack of exams and motivation as well as a problematic curriculum. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Education ministry finalising policy to make secondary school compulsory ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek says school dropouts will not occur if children are required to study up to the SPM level. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Education ministry denies SPM grading lowered for 2022 exam ]]></title>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ 'What kind of work is that?': Post-SPM clashes arise between parents and children ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2023 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Some SPM graduates say they do not know how to convince their parents of what they want to do in life. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Almost 30,000 candidates didn't sit for SPM 2022, education ministry confirms ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Radzi takes PM to task over claim that 30,000 sat out SPM exam ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2023 06:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The former education minister says there were only 14,858 absentees and not 30,000 as claimed by Anwar Ibrahim. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Education ministry studying factors in no-show of SPM candidates ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 00:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ This follows a report that 14,858 or 3.8% of the 388,832 candidates who registered for the 2022 SPM did not attend the examination. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ 10,109 SPM 2022 candidates obtained straight As ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 03:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ 75,322 candidates obtained average results with at least a grade C for all subjects. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Why some SPM grads don't want to go back to school ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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