The National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN) has backed down on its freeze
on student loans to two Selangor government-run institutions - Universiti Selangor (Unisel) and Selangor International Islamic
University College (Kuis).
Unisel was informed
of this earlier today, and students can apply for the loans starting
tonight.
In a posting at about
11.40am today, a tweet by Umno Youth's PTPTN roundtable also confirmed that the freeze has been lifted, said, "Good
news! For the sake of the rakyat, PTPTN has agreed to disburse loans to
Unisel students. Please spread the news!"
Earlier, PTPTN had applied a temporary freeze on loans for Unisel and Kuis students, as a challenge to Pakatan Rakyat's claim that they would be able to provide free education should the opposition coalition come to power while Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin admitted yesterday that the freeze was a test for PKR to prove it can implement its free education proposal.
In a posting at about
11.40am today, a tweet by Umno Youth's PTPTN roundtable also confirmed that the freeze has been lifted, said, "Good
news! For the sake of the rakyat, PTPTN has agreed to disburse loans to
Unisel students. Please spread the news!"Earlier, PTPTN had applied a temporary freeze on loans for Unisel and Kuis students, as a challenge to Pakatan Rakyat's claim that they would be able to provide free education should the opposition coalition come to power while Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin admitted yesterday that the freeze was a test for PKR to prove it can implement its free education proposal.
Politicans
and students alike have slammed the government for being “immature” and called the move by the BN government to use the student loan as a
political weapon “repulsive”.
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