In a statement, the youth wing said that the roundtable would bring together various stakeholders, including the education ministry, to focus on four main pillars during discussions.

“The four pillars are – restoring the authority and dignity of teachers; reassessing the curriculum to strike a balance between academics, values and life skills; addressing the crisis of student discipline and emotional wellbeing; and restructuring the school assessment system and reducing bureaucratic burdens,” it said.

The party wing said it believed that the younger generation must be trained to think critically, behave respectfully and possess a noble spirit and not merely study to pass examinations.

Cases involving the murder of a 16-year-old female student at a school in Bandar Utama, as well as alleged rapes at schools in Baling, Kedah, and Alor Gajah, Melaka, have been making headlines over the past week.

Umno Youth also commented on the 2026 budget, welcoming in principle several measures that directly benefit youth, including full stamp duty exemption for first-time home purchases below RM500,000 and the allocation of RM3 billion through Human Resource Development Corporation for high-tech and digital skills training.

However, the wing believed that several aspects of the federal budget still needed to be refined, including the issue of rising urban housing prices and the household income threshold for free PTPTN student assistance eligibility, which remains too low.