SEPANG, March 12 -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has urged the Education Ministry and Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) to ensure that students enrolling in boarding schools prioritise science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects.

He said this initiative should begin this year.

"I have asked the Education Ministry and MARA to ensure that more students enrolling in boarding schools take up STEM.

"Now we have Infineon Technologies and Google, but our children are not pursuing STEM.

"Starting this year, at least 70 per cent of students entering boarding schools must choose STEM, while the remaining 30 per cent can pursue Arts and Social Sciences," Anwar said at an Iftar event with government-linked companies (GL...