Azly Rahman | Let them eat MUET
There is so much worry that the Malays are going to be left behind in the new English Language requirements for university entrance – the Malaysian University English Test (MUET).
There are so many groups making excuses that the kids from rural areas will be left behind.
Well, hasn't this been an argument since time immemorial? Never-ending excuses for those 'speaking for the Malays'.
Here is my advice to those learning and teaching the lingua franca.
You've got to work hard for it; just like anything else in life. We should have progressed a long time ago as a nation with good mastery of the English Language had we not politicised the issue.
It is time to grow up cognitively and have a 'do or die' attitude towards the language if one really wants to get a good university education with English as a medium of instruction.
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