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KOTA KINABALU: The Education Ministry (MOE) will announce the actual data of post-Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) students who did not further their studies.

Senior Education Minister Datuk Dr Radzi Jidin (pic) said at the moment MOE is collecting new data on where the students are after sitting for the examination.

"MOE will look in detail at the (student) data, we will share this data in the near future and we will explain (where the students are) based on the data we have obtained," he told reporters after the Sabah Teacher Education Transformation programme at the Sabah International Convention Centre (SICC) here today.

Sabah Special Tasks Minister Datuk Mohd Arifin Mohd Arif and State Education Department director Tah Nia Jaman were also present.

Recently the media reported that about 390,000 or 72.1 per cent of post-SPM students decided not to continue their studies.

Commenting on the reported figures, Radzi said the study was not done comprehensively and recorded age cohort or did not have the same situation, for example, the past generation who are now 70 to 80 years old have different reasons for not continuing their education compared to the younger generation today.

"That's why we have to look more deeply. I don't want to talk about 72 per cent, let us explain that based on the data we got from students who completed SPM," he said.