A DAP Youth leader criticised Umno Youth chief Dr Akmal Saleh for attempting to use the race card in diverting attention from issues plaguing the centralised public university admissions system (UPU).

This comes after Akmal questioned whether the people will be alright with having a single-stream schooling system, following a student union’s urging of the government to abolish the matriculation system and use STPM results as the sole benchmark for entry into public universities.

“Vernacular schools are not...