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Statistics on 2008 public university intake

June 19th, 2008
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Breakdown of critical course intake for local universities 2008/2009.

Field Bumiputra Chinese Indian Total
No. % No. % No. %
Medicine 491 52.80 359 38.60 80 8.60 930
Dentistry 119 58.05 79 38.54 7 3.41 205
Pharmacy 145 50.00 140 48.28 5 1.72 290
Electronic Eng 570 56.32 389 38.44 53 5.24 1012
Chemical Eng 501 61.93 272 33.62 36 4.45 809
Law 203 58.67 116 33.52 27 7.80 346
Accountancy 386 39.59 543 55.69 46 4.72 975
Total 2415 52.88 1898 41.56 254 5.56 4567

some of the data taken from The Star  (hard copy)

My analysis:

– For critical courses, Indian students make up 5.56% of the overall intake, which is 254 students out of 4567.

– Overall Indian intake is 6.84%. Meaning out of 40,184 students,  about 2749 students are Indians.

– Total Indian students who are offered non-critical courses is 2749-254 =  2495 (90.76% of total students)

– Overall Bumiputra intake is 62.19%, which is 24,990 out of 40,184 successful students.

– Total Bumiputra students offered non-critical courses is 24,990 – 2415 =  22,575 (90.33% of total students)

– Overall Chinese intake is 30.97%, which is 12,445 out of 40,184 successful students. » Read more: Statistics on 2008 public university intake

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Devamany criticises Hishamuddin over Tamil schools land

June 18th, 2008
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Looks like Devamany has the same opinion as me 🙂 He subtly hits back at Hishamuddin by saying that:

THE ruling Barisan Nasional Government should work proactively to allocate land for Tamil schools first, before asking Pakatan Rakyat state governments to allocate such land.

He said many Tamil schools were situated on private land and the Barisan Government should take over these schools and convert them into fully aided ones.

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Earlier, Hishamuddin was questioning non-action by Pakatan states on land allocation for vernacular and religious schools.

Hopefully he is not reprimanded again.

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Kids without birth cert expelled from tamil schools

June 17th, 2008
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Well, i think the community should learn from illegal immigrants on how they go their PR and other documents. Interested parties who are concerned for the community can set up a fund to pay for such documents. I’m sure there are many syndicates who can help 🙂 Depending on the relevant agencies will take forever, so might as well look for alternative avenues. The foreigners are enjoying more benefit due to their “initiatives”. Why not learn from them?

Remember just before election, MIC Youth hijacked an independent group’s (Makkal Sakthi?) programme and went around the nation to register Indians without identity documents? Wonder what happened to those applications. Wait for next election campaign is it?

Since Pakatan had taken over Selangor, Perak, Penang and Kedah, all states with high number of Indians, perhaps they should re-initiate action to get people without proper identification documents registered. Even when MIC Youth held the program in Klang, many people from other races also turned up. So, this is a common problem among the poor and rural inhabitants.

School kids expelled for not having birth certs
Indrani Kopal | Jun 17, 08 2:08pm

http://malaysiakini.com/news/84592

Human rights and social welfare groups are increasingly concerned that up to 40,000 ‘paperless’ Indian Malaysian children in Selangor may be deprived of an education.

Last year, 13 students who failed to produce their birth certificates were expelled from their Tamil primary school – the SRJK (T) Vallambrosa in Kapar. » Read more: Kids without birth cert expelled from tamil schools

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SJKT Ladang Bukit Jalil missing from KL City Plan

June 17th, 2008
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Remember SJKT Ladang Bukit Jalil? It is the school that is being relocated to a cemetery area. It has the infamous publicity of being flooded 3 times in a month. Well, looks like its not on the KL Draft City Plan 2020 ! I don’t suppose the idea to temporarily house the school in ground floor of the flats has anything to do with its disappearance?

Chin, who paid RM150 for the two-volume draft plan, complained that there are mistakes in it. He pointed out that SJK (T) Ladang Bukit Jalil school and the detention camp are not included in the plan.

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Can our FT Deputy Minister do something about this?

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schools construction delayed claims Penang CM

June 17th, 2008
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Earlier, we read how Hishamuddin, the Education Minister asks about Pakatan Rakyat states’ plans on creating more vernacular and Agama schools. He chided them, saying no plans or proposals have been submitted to Education Ministry, but many promises were made during election campaign.

This was followed by announcement of the ministry’s own to-be-drawn Mini-blueprint for such schools, something done after so long. And note the “to be drawn”.

Yesterday, Penang government said that schools construction had been delayed since land were handed over by state to the ministry. Penang CM urged the ministry to provide fast-track approval for additional schools.

“To make matters worse, the state government cannot reclaim the land ownership once it is given up. As such, I want the ministry to give its assurance that the construction works will start immediately after the land title is surrendered to the federal authorities,”

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So, one one hand we have the Education Minister saying no plans are forthcoming from Pakatan held states, while on the other hand we have Penang Chief Minister saying construction works are delayed after land had been given to the Ministry.

And the people will still be waiting for new school.

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