KUALA LUMPUR: Alpine ski racer Aruwin Salehhuddin may have to abandon her dream of winning a Winter Olympics medal - a feat no Malaysian has ever achieved before - if funding for her runs out.

EVERY time the Auditor General’s Report is released, we hope against hope that it won’t be about this or that government agency bleeding red ink.

KUCHING: Students enrolling in state-owned institutions of higher learning under Sarawak’s free tertiary education initiative next year will not be required to sign bonds compelling them to work in the state.

KUALA LUMPUR: The low rate of tertiary education among Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) holders poses long-term challenges for Malaysia’s workforce.

KUALA LUMPUR: More than half a million SPM graduates from 2020 to 2023 did not pursue tertiary education.

PENSIANGAN: The Comprehensive Special Model School 9 (K9) initiative, introduced by the Education Ministry, has proven effective in ensuring better attendance and securing a brighter future for students from rural areas.

THE popular kids’ question, which came first, the chicken or the egg?, has a different answer depending on whether you look at our world through the lens of a creationist or an evolutionist.

RANAU: Returning to tertiary education is a daunting challenge for Jvy Mius, who spent seven years working as a porter after completing Form 6.

THE 18th century Anglo-Irish politician and philosopher Edmund Burke wrote: “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

GEORGE TOWN: No parent or guardian has turned down the RM150 Early Schooling Aid (BAP) for the 2024/2025 academic session.

NIBONG TEBAL: Following its successful implementation, the Education Ministry is considering including teachers in the Madani Book Voucher programme.

KUALA LUMPUR: Chairman of the Board of TARC Education Foundation Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong has expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for granting a RM40 million allocation to Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology (TAR UMT).

KUCHING: In his New Year’s message, Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg expressed his delight that the state has successfully implemented many projects under the five-year 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP).

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will be among the first in the region to implement the global minimum tax (GMT) framework next year, along with neighbours Singapore and Vietnam.

PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia’s Bumiputera labour force reached 9.8 million in 2023, with a labour force participation rate (LFPR) of 67.2 per cent, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

IN Lewis Carroll’s children’s novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the eponymous protagonist one day comes to a fork in the road.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia contributed a huge covered tent and four gas heaters valued at RM20,000 to Namibia’s Windhoek Islamic Centre (WIC) yesterday.

KUCHING: Finance and accounting studies will be among the core disciplines offered under the free tertiary education policy at all Sarawak-owned universities starting in 2026, says State Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg.

SHAH ALAM: The government has increased its FLYSiswa flight ticket subsidy from RM300 to RM400 per student.

KUCHING: Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg has projected that Sarawak’s revenue collection could exceed RM15 billion next year, with the possibility of reaching RM20 billion.