Najib Laubs Women Undergrads Achievement

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has praised women undergraduates for outnumbering their male counterparts in the latest intake for public institutes of higher learning.

   "This year, women made up 68 per cent of  students admitted to public universities, a great victory for gender fairness in education," he said in his latest Twitter posting.

   It was reported that 41,573 students had been offered places in 20 public institutions of higher learning nationwide for the 2013/2014 session.

  Almost 60 per cent of those who received the letters of admission were offered science-based courses while the remaining successful applicants were arts students.

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