PRIVATE STATE OWN universities. Meaning they are not university under the Federal government jurisdiction.

Sarawak government does not have authority over federal government institution of learning.

Remember the state had to beg for federal government to improve dilapidated schools that look that they will collapse anytime? Got money also cannot do anything!

wow wow wow i cant believe i am reading this.

All this while the quota based in Malaysia's public uni was good

It's expensive but starting 2026 will be free for Stem courses thats why they plan this. Imagine you decide select people to go into these uni n state government paying the fee. It will trigger shit storm. Also those not so good but rich pipuls will be at disvantaged.
Those from B40 are taken care off with the Sarawak government international secondary schools on Cambridge syllabus. Mostly boarding school students. They have small numbers of M n T students as well.

It's not "backed by. It's "owned by" state government.

Lolol. I don't know y this article appearing in The Star but not the major dailies in Sarawak like Sarawak Tribune n TheBorneoPost. So I will wait for the reports from Sarawak papers.

You think Sarawak bumi will go mara uni if they can get into curtin or swinburne with internationally recognized programs n for free??

To be fair being in the rural area does not give one the license to slack off. He or she just need to do twice as hard with th 30% of the resources of the urban peers. my brothers n sisters had to walk hours to the SJK. Secondary school was closer to home. That was in the 70s. No road yet that time when I started school got road not public bus. Was able to pay 20cent for bus ride to school. Okay only ada je org completed Ph.D!

Today still no tuition centre's like in urban areas. The only tuitions are give by the school teachers in after schilool time n happening in school classrooms. They do this to help the students n the school to achieve better results.

I know lah. 😂

Ermm the other bumis in Sarawak and majority Christians also breed like rabbits. We also have Malanau Muslims who are technically not Malay. So I don't see the race ratio changing any time soon. Even the Chinese in my home town brred like rabbits. My brother got 5 kids. I don't recall any of my neighbors have less than 5 kids.

The reason being the state gomen downs not want to be cursed by these students. Study study for free n graduated cannot find job. Stem, finance, Management are the priorities. The state needs these talents to fill up vacancies in the future

UTS had bragged about alumni employabili in the past.

LOL