PETALING JAYA: With the Education Ministry saying on Monday that 10,000 Form Five students failed to take the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2023 exam.
Stakeholders and interest groups denounce lack of action over rape joke NORMAN HIU/ THESUN.
PETALING JAYA: Victim-blaming and denial have become the default mode when Malaysia responds to the issue of sexual harassment.
The latest episode is that of an exposé by a student on a teacher cracking a joke about rape at school, followed by his union representative’s demand for “facts” and arguing that there are other “bigger problems”.
In an interview with Astro Awani yesterday, National Union of the Teaching Profession secretary-general Harry Tan (pix) asked for “facts and statistics” to prove that sexual harassment at school was widespread.