June 22, 2001

Malaysian Ethnic Quotas May Be Extended

By DAVID COHEN

Malaysia's education minister, Musa Mohamed, has announced that the country's laws requiring public universities to abide by an ethnic-quota system in their selection of students may be extended to private colleges as well.

While he did not indicate a time frame for possible changes, Mr. Musa said there remained a pressing need to rectify what his nationalist government sees as a chronic imbalance between the number of Malay and non-Malay students at private institutions of higher