In their continuing attempt to unify the education systems of the country, in the 1960s the Malaysian government worked to reform the Chinese high school system. In the 1970s they blocked the creation of an independent Chinese university, and in the 1980s instituted a series of measures that led to a deterioration in the situation for Chinese elementary schools.
就大馬政府試圖實施一元化教育政策的歷程看，1960 年代的焦點在促使華文中學改制，70 年代是阻撓華文獨立大學的創辦，80 年代則提出一連串致使華文小學變質的措施。