Najib: Malaysia’s investment in education without gender discrimination has yielded results

Princess Mabel of the Netherlands (left) talks with Najib as Rosmah talks with Denmark's Crown Princess Mary(right) following the opening ceremony at the Women Deliver conference in Kuala Lumpur.

 

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's investment in education, without gender discrimination, has yielded results beyond the Government's expectation, said the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Speaking at the 3rd Global Conference on Women Deliver 2013, Najib said 65 percent of students in institutions of tertiary educations here are women.

"A girl at school in Malaysia today is more likely to go to University than her male classmates.

"Although we have the same number of girls and boys enrolled in school, higher education rates are greater for women," he said on Tuesday.

However, he agreed that enrolment was only the first step.