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Angry students and teary parents question PSD rejection

May 18th, 2008
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Hmm….every year also same drama. One just have to search the Internet to see many cases of students from all races complaining about the rejection.

Why is there no solution for this problem? MIC’s Dr S.Subra suggesting automatic scholarship offer for those who get 10As and above. MCA and Gerakan still quiet as with opposition.

Transparency is the key here. People deserve to know why things happen as such. Then, they should be able to give feedback and rectify the errors or shortcomings. Unfortunately, information flow is not so free as it is worried that the public is not smart enough to understand things.

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Dr S Subra supports automatic PSD scholarship offer

May 16th, 2008
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He is echoing what parents, students and many sane malaysian are asking, begging, cajoling for all this while. By making such a clear rule, it will serve as motivation for students, ensure transparency, and improve the perception of PSD in the eyes of the public.

Now, did the minister suggest this at the cabinet today? No point making press statement because the public can’t do much.

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MIC unhappy only 34 offered JPA scholarships

May 15th, 2008
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We read yesterday about Kamine Devi who scored 10A1s not being offered anything  by PSD (JPA). She should also consider registering an appeal via MIC since they have a representative in cabinet. The community has no choice but to rely on MIC in this case because of the race based politics.

As Samy suggests, it should be an automatic offer for students who fulfill certain criteria  – certain number of As and/or family income. The should be a system integration between MES and JPA so that details of students can be linked. This will avoid cases of not being able to apply online, loss of data, incomplete/invalid application, incorrect data entry etc., and most importantly ensure no deserving students are left out. We are sick and tired of reading in the papers, year after year, students begging for scholarship. Simple thing also cannot solve.

Imagine only 34 get scholarship, out of possibly 2000++ places. Not even 5%, but about 2% only! And already have 194 appeals.

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nearly 12 percent normal malaysians in MRSM

May 14th, 2008
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3094/26251 =  11.79%, which is more than the allocated 1% places in MRSM. A better reporting would be breakdown in terms of (i) normal/privileged Malaysians and their grade levels; (ii) races and their grade levels; (iii) gender and their grade levels.

A total of 3,094 non-bumiputera students are studying at 40 Mara Junior Science (MRSM) colleges throughout the country, Entrepreneur & Co-operative Development Minister Datuk Noh Omar said. He said MRSM colleges reserved 10% of their places for qualified non-bumiputera youths.

“For this year, we received 334 applications from non-bumiputeras to go into Form 1 at MRSM, of which 172 were accepted.

“Overall there are now 3,094 non-bumiputera students out of the total of 26,251 students in MRSM colleges nationwide,” he told Roslan Shaharum (PAS-Bukit Gantang).

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MIC wants Remove Class scrapped

May 14th, 2008
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THE MIC wants the Government to scrap Remove Class for Tamil and Chinese school pupils, saying these classes are no longer relevant under the current education system.In a letter to Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, the party urged him to take steps to abolish these classes, reported Tamil Nesan.

MIC information chief Datuk M. Saravanan called on the minister to review the system based on feedback from the Indian community.

According to him, the status of remove classes should be reviewed because they had become redundant as Science and Mathematics are now being taught in English.

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