MPs complain about lack of internet for students

Sabah university student Veveonah Mosibin captured attention because she went up a tree to get a steady phone signal to sit for her online examination paper.

KUALA LUMPUR: The agenda to empower national education, with an emphasis on online learning, was among the highlights of today’s Dewan Rakyat debate on the motion of thanks for the Royal Address.

Several MPs pointed out that there were many obstacles for people in rural areas to get Internet access during the movement control order shutdown period, hence the need for the government to improve the facilities in line with its digitalisation agenda.

Mahdzir Khalid (BN-Padang Terap) proposed that the education and communications ministries work together to improve Internet access, especially in the rural and remote areas so that schoolchildren could easily communicate with their teachers.

“There are four education clusters in the country namely students in urban, semi-urban, rural and remote areas, where the remote cluster was the worst (in terms of Internet access). This refers not only to remote areas in Sabah and Sarawak but in the peninsula as well.

source:Freemalaysiatoday.com