12-Jan-22 18:00

Dr Vilashini Somiah, Anthropologist and Senior Lecturer of Gender Studies Programme, Universiti Malaya | Teo Nie Ching, Kulai MP and Former Deputy Minister of Education

School is in session, and face-to-face learning has resumed nationwide. However, some students are facing challenges in travelling to school, with a group needing to travel by boat, and another having to use a ricketty suspension bridge. First, we talk about the actual difficulties on the ground, and what we need to do to address it. Then, we get into how these sorts of infrastructure barriers affect students and our education system as a whole.

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