Posts Tagged ‘Marginalisation’

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.

Let’s wait for MCA to reveal the numbers.   » Read more: MIC unhappy only 34 offered JPA scholarships

SPM 10A1 Kamine Devi rejected by PSD

May 14th, 2008
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Not sure if the girl has been offered alternative courses or not. Anyway, PSD (JPA) had only given 12% –  25% of scholarships to normal Malaysians a.k.a second class citizens from 2004-2007. The rest went to the privileged Malaysians.

It is the time of the year where parents and students have to approach political parties in order to convince and get more places from PSD. » Read more: SPM 10A1 Kamine Devi rejected by PSD

Normal malaysians only get 25 and 12 percent of scholarships

May 9th, 2008
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BETWEEN 2004 and 2007, a total of 6,084 Malaysian students were offered full scholarships by the Public Service Department to pursue their studies abroad, said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. He said 4,540 students were Bumiputeras and 1,544 students were non-Bumiputeras. Abdullah said 23,038 students were offered scholarships by the department to pursue their studies locally. Of this total, 20,096 were Bumiputeras and 2,942 students were non-Bumiputera.

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Scholarship for Foreign studies:

Normal Malaysians (aka the rest of us) – 1544/6084 = 25.38%

Privileged Ones – 4540/6084 = 74.62%

Scholarship for Local studies:

Normal Malaysians (aka the rest of us) – 2942/23038 = 12.77%
Privileged Ones – 20096/23038 = 87.23%

» Read more: Normal malaysians only get 25 and 12 percent of scholarships

Gerakan forms committee to solve Tamil schools problems

May 4th, 2008
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Really 400 schools closed down since 1979? Wow! Anyway, good luck to Gerakan. They will be going against UMNO if want to fight for Tamil schools. These guys no need to create another committee, just work with exiting ones like HINDRAF, Tamil Foundation, EWRF, Tamil HM Association, MIC (heaven forbid!), the school PTAs etc.

I’m not sure how serious is Gerakan since they are not Indian-friendly party. No “suitable” candidates it seems for recent elections. So, how to have faith in people like Dr Krishnan?

Solution is simple for layman like me. Change the law. How difficult is that? Difficult since one good-for-nothing political party opposes it. All it needs is to get the legal team to draft changes, and vote in parliament. Which right minded parliamentarian won’t vote for converting partially-aided schools to fully-aided ones – (by buying the land or allowing for funds for such schools on par with other schools)? I bet there will be a bunch of them who are against it. They won’t let fellow coalition MPs to support such motion as well, if it was from the opposition.

This Gerakan effort will fail. If successful, MIC can close shop. » Read more: Gerakan forms committee to solve Tamil schools problems

MIC Youth calls for PSD scholars names

April 29th, 2008
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Now, this is good stuff! MIC Youth are embarking on a new tale, that others haven’t picked up yet. At last, they came out with something that does not parrot their boss or other leaders.

Yes, publish the names. » Read more: MIC Youth calls for PSD scholars names