48,000 students took a special entrance exam on 14th December 1999 and 12,000 students were offered to undergo the Matriculation Programme. The second intake commenced on January 2000. Realising the needs and urgency to cater more students into the Matriculation Programme, five more colleges are being built. They began their session in January and July 2000. Gradually three additional Matriculation colleges were built and ready for operation. These colleges, along with 18 other selected private higher learning institutions began their first intake on July 19th, 1999, with 8,465 students overall. Aside from the Matriculation Division, Melaka Matriculation College and Labuan Matriculation College were also built, each capable of accommodating 3,000 and 500 students respectively. Proposal to set up the Matriculation Division was tabled in the Cabinet meeting on March 10th, 1999 and was approved officially on June 1st, 1999. The team later shifted to a permanent office at Wisma Kg. Officers and staffs were gradually assigned to its temporary office at Technology of Education Division, Persiaran Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur led by former Director of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Matriculation Centre, Dr.

Matriculation Division was initiated on 1 September 1998 set off to centralise, standardise and manage all pre-university programmes, which were conducted by local public higher learning institutions.

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