Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the government will study the quota system used for pre-university matriculation programmes.

"We will study the problem," he said when met in Putrajaya this morning.

Mahathir was asked about a DAP Youth leader proposing that the racial quota system for the programme be abolished.

Previously, Education Minister Maszlee Malik was reported as saying that the policy reserving 90 percent of places for bumiputera students would remain.