{"id":1912,"date":"2008-05-15T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/05\/15\/mic-unhappy-only-34-offered-jpa-scholarships\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T05:10:09","slug":"mic-unhappy-only-34-offered-jpa-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/05\/15\/mic-unhappy-only-34-offered-jpa-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC unhappy only 34 offered JPA scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"

We read yesterday about Kamine Devi<\/a> who scored 10A1s not being offered anything\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

As Samy suggests, it should be an automatic offer for students who fulfill certain criteria\u00a0 – 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.<\/p>\n

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

Let’s wait for MCA to reveal the numbers. \u00a0<\/p>\n

MIC to push for more PSD scholarships<\/strong>
\nBERNAMA
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KUALA LUMPUR, Thu.:<\/p>\n

The MIC today expressed dissatisfaction over the low percentage of Public Service Department (PSD) overseas scholarships allocated for Indian students and hopes the government will increase the number, party president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said.
\nHe said this year only 34 Indian students<\/span><\/strong> had been successful in their application.<\/p>\n

The party received 194 appeals<\/span><\/strong>, some from those who had secured 12 A1s in their Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examinations, Samy Vellu said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The party has prepared a list of the 194 appeal cases comprising among others, two students with 12 A1s, three students with 11 A1s and 41 students with 10 A1s<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“I will request the MIC representative in the Cabinet<\/span><\/strong> (Human Resource Minister Datuk Dr. S. Subramanianm) to bring up the appeal cases in the next Cabinet meeting (on Friday),” he said.
\nSamy Vellu said he had also discussed the matter with the Chief Secretary to the Government, Tan Sri Sidek Hassan and would follow up with him soon on the matter.<\/p>\n

“I hope the government will consider the appeals by the students, especially those with excellent grades,” he said, adding that some of the parents of the students were from poor background<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He suggested that the PSD set a minimum requirement<\/span><\/strong> similar to that for the matriculation courses in selected universities and Form Six in fully-aided schools where PSD scholarships would be offered to all students who scored 9 As in their SPM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We read yesterday about Kamine Devi who scored 10A1s not being offered anything\u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[112,19,84,103,24,225,27,53],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-funds","tag-marginalisation","tag-mic","tag-politicians","tag-protest","tag-student-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}