Research Title

Equity & Equality in Education 

So this is my topic for the research, Equity & Equality in Education. I would like to focus on the Malaysian education system in depth. When I was an intern at school, I can see that actually we still sorted students according to their achievement in exam and meanwhile, there are still a lot of them left behind. 

Therefore, as requested by Prof Aziah (my lecturer), we did a Problem Tree so that we can understand or narrow it down to specific issues. Here I will attach my Problem Tree 



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