SABAH’S Education and Innovation Ministry is screening stateless children in its schools to determine if they have met enrolment requirements.

Its minister, Daud Yusof, said the government has set certain requirements to determine whether they are eligible to go to public schools in Sabah.

“We are now revising the numbers as there are existing requirements and if the parents were able to produce the documents, they won’t have a problem to go to school.

“At present, we don’t have the figures but as far as we were informed by the Education Department, their numbers are big.

“We are in the midst of getting the numbers right now, “ he told The Malaysian Insight, today.

The Federal Education Ministry has allowed stateless children to enrol into public schools in January 1, this year, as well as allow them to take the national public exams.

Earlier, Daud said Sabah has at least 587 schools in need of repairs and wants the federal Education Minister Maszlee Malik to resolve the matter as soon as possible.

At the opening of the school year, Sabah media reported that 800 students had to take their lessons under 12 makeshift tents in Beluran.

This happened after two buildings at the SK Telup was destroyed in June last year.

Daud said overcrowded classrooms is not a new problem in Sabahas it was already an issue before  the stateless children are allowed to enrol.  – January 6, 2018.