Because the less academically inclined can too easily fall into low paid, unskilled jobs- or languish on the dole queue - vocational training would be revamped.

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That said, the effect seems to be stronger among the less academically-inclined end of the applicant pool.

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Muhyiddin, who is Education Minister, said the Government planned to identify much earlier students who were more hands-on and less academically-inclined to join the vocational stream before they entered Form Three.

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