Scrapping the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) is the product of a conceited political game, as it will rob poor parents of their dream of seeing their children pursue higher education, a minister, academics and non-govermental organisation leaders said yesterday.
They said the clincher was the number of students who received financial support to pursue tertiary education, which rose from 27,000 annually to 230,000 after PTPTN came into existence in 1999.
The Pakatan Rakyat plan to abolish PTPTN, at best, will benefit just one generation. One of them said it was totally financially irresponsible to use Petronas money for a single purpose — to foot the education bill.
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