Ministry urged to set up Mara Junior Science College in Keningau
KENINGAU: Assistant Agriculture and Food Industry Minister Datuk Haji Sairin Karno urged the Ministry of Regional and Rural Development to increase the intake of students from the interior to the Mara Junior Science College (MRSM) in the future.
“This is to ensure that none of the outstanding students from the rural areas are dropping out,” he told reporters after delivering letters of offer to students from the Keningau parliamentary constituency to further their studies in Form One at MRSM Kota Kinabalu on Tuesday.
He also urged the government to create an MRSM in the district to provide rural students with opportunities to further their studies.He said selected students now had to go to MRSM Kota Kinabalu or overseas, and this would incur high costs.
“I appeal that, in the future, we will be able to create a college in Keningau to accommodate rural students from Keningau, Tenom, Nabawan and Tambunan,” he said.
A total of 18 students from the Keningau parliamentary constituency received offer letters to further their studies at MRSM from the Ministry of Regional and Rural Development.
Sairin, who is also Liawan assemblyman, said with the existence of the college here, it would ease the burden of parents, especially for those who were less fortunate in providing for their child’s schooling expenses.
He said if the college was built in this area, opportunities for children from the interior will continue to increase, thus producing high-skilled human capital.