Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Earlier, I wrote that Star and NST gave conflicting reports on the breakdown of the 151 fast track students. Looks like someone read my blog and checked on it (yeah…wishful thinking!). Looks like Star reported wrongly this time. PSD clarifies below that 117 normal Malaysians and 34 privileged Malaysian were those who qualified. This is going to anger MMMM and ABIM even more!
PUTRAJAYA: The Public Service Department (PSD) has provided “fast lane assistance” to 117 non-bumiputra Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia top achievers from low-income families, applying for scholarship to study abroad.
Public Service director-general Tan Sri Ismail Adam said a total of 151 students were eligible to have their applications put on the fast lane and the remaining 34 were bumiputra students.
He said the assistance was extended to the students who scored 10 A1s and who came from low-income families, earning below RM1,500 a month.
“We accepted it as that and did not try to adjust anything,” he said, clarifying an earlier report, which said more bumiputra applicants were given “fast lane assistance” compared to the non-bumiputra.
Ismail pointed out the figure was actually the opposite, adding that while scholarships for these students were “almost assured of, they still had to attend interviews.”
Another problem with this PSD is , its just 2,000 scholarhips… hmmmm too few i think…
i think PSD should adjust the criteria if they are unable to provide more scholarships. Maybe set a minimum of 13A1s as the first criteria. From the list that passes the first criteria, they can further filter by income and extra-curricular activities.
second option, set the income criteria as first priority. for example, select ALL students who family earns RM3k and below. from that list, filter the best 2000 SPM results.