Permata’s STEM programme producing results

Bright future ahead: Rosmah and students smiling for a group picture at the closing of the first UKM-Kazakhstan STEM Summer Camp 2015 at the Permata Pintar Negara Centre in UKM, Bangi. — Bernama

BANGI: The Permata Pintar programme is beginning to show results with more than 90% of students who have attended Permata’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programme opting to study fundamental rather than applied sciences and mathematics.

The Prime Minister’s wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, who is also the Permata Programme patron, said these students were now studying in various universities in the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia.