The Education Ministry is not providing the true figures o­n the intake of bumiputera students into public universities for this year, claimed DAP Socialist Youth (Dapsy) today.

In a press statement, its secretary Loke Siew Fook ( left ) said the ministry's recent claim that the intake of bumiputera students under the meritocracy system dropped from 68.9 percent last year to 62.6 percent was not accurate.

Last Friday, the ministry said that under the two-year-old merit-based system, the percentage of bumiputera students had dropped although their numbers increased as more places were offered this year.