In a radical shift, the Ministry of Education recently scrapped the infamous "streaming" system that sorted students into Science, Arts, or Technical tracks at Form 4. The new curriculum allows students to pick subjects à la carte. A student can now take Physics, Accounting, and Visual Arts in the same timetable.
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By secondary school, all students funnel into national schools where Bahasa Malaysia becomes the medium of instruction. But the ghost of language politics lingers. Students must pass a compulsory English paper (causing anxiety for rural students) and often take Mandarin or Tamil as an elective after hours. It is not uncommon to meet a 17-year-old who is functionally trilingual but struggles to write a complex essay in any single language. In a radical shift, the Ministry of Education