PARLIAMENT | Education Minister Fadhlina Sidek today said the ministry has made “maximum preparations” in anticipation of an “extraordinary” response from parents seeking to enrol their six-year-olds into Year 1 beginning next year.

The issue of congested schools was repeatedly raised during debates of the royal address and again today in interjections from both sides of the bench.

Fadhlina, in her ministry’s winding-up speech today, reassured that...