KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Education Minister Teo Nie Ching has welcomed the Federal Court’s decision to dismiss lawyer Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz’s leave application to pursue his constitutional challenge on the existence of vernacular schools in the country. “I hope there will be no more attempts to challenge vernacular schools. “As had been mentioned by our leaders, vernacular schools should be an important asset to a diverse country like ours,” she told reporters in Parliament. Teo also thanked the Attorney-General’s Chambers for defending vernacular schools in the Federal Court. Meanwhile, Rembau member of parliament Khairy Jamaluddin said: “Court is the best place to decide on the matter and it has been decided that the existence of vernacular schools was not a violation of the law.

Source: New Strait Times November 11, 2019 07:05 UTC