Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email MIC Youth launched an hotline yesterday for STPM students who failed to get a place in IPTA. According to the statement, Indians constitute only 5.68% of the applicants who got a place, which is 2,304 students out of over 40,000 successful candidates.
They question why the intake is low. Is it due to not enough STPM candidates or quality of student results are low. At the moment, there’s less than 8,000 Indian students left in IPTA.
It seems Indians have limited option to enter IPTA: either STPM, Matriculation (limited intake of 10% for non-bumiputera), and diploma from polytechnic. I think he forgot to mention that its for degree. There’s a small number of students who enter IPTA to do diploma after SPM, and also there’s a group that get KPLSPM to do teaching degree after SPM.
Another thing to consider is the statement that students/families considering the offer if the university is located far away. I think another factor is also the course being offered.
