PARLIAMENT | Deputy Education Minister Mah Hang Soon revealed that the number of students who dropped out from school was even higher before the Covid-19 pandemic.

There were 34,074 school dropouts in 2018, he said, compared with 11,301 students who dropped out between March and December 2020 as well as the 10,015 between January and July 2021.

“What this means is the number of dropouts in the previous years was higher,” Mah said.