SHAH ALAM: Chinese and Indian students will be offered TVET programmes in China without a fee, says Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
He added that the matter had been conveyed to MIC president Tan Sri SA Vigneswaran and MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong.
“I am colour blind when it comes to education. That is why the 1,345 TVET institutes nationwide are open to all,” he said during his speech at the MIC annual general meeting here yesterday.
“Chinese children are my children, Indian children are my children,” he said.
On the issue of vernacular schools, he said the Federal Court had ruled that such institutions were provided for in the Constitution and the unity government had affirmed this stance.
This is why the rights of ethnic groups to use their mother tongue as a medium of instruction in vernacular schools must be respected, he added.
Ahmad Zahid announced that a portion of the RM200mil allocated for TVET programmes, will be channelled to TAFE College and VTAR Institute.
