{"id":1983,"date":"2008-05-31T01:09:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/05\/31\/wrong-scholarship-breakdown-by-star\/"},"modified":"2008-05-31T01:09:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T17:09:57","slug":"wrong-scholarship-breakdown-by-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/05\/31\/wrong-scholarship-breakdown-by-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong scholarship breakdown by Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, I wrote that Star and NST gave <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/05\/29\/3000-appeals-and-151-special-cases-for-psd-scholarship\/\">conflicting reports<\/a> on the breakdown of the 151 fast track students. Looks like someone read my blog and checked on it (yeah&#8230;wishful thinking!). Looks like Star reported wrongly this time. PSD clarifies below that 117 normal Malaysians and 34 privileged Malaysian were those who qualified. This is going to anger MMMM and ABIM even more!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PUTRAJAYA: The Public Service Department (PSD) has provided &#8220;fast lane assistance&#8221; to 117 non-bumiputra Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia top achievers from low-income families, applying for scholarship to study abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Public Service director-general Tan Sri Ismail Adam said a total of 151 students were eligible to have their applications put on the fast lane and the remaining 34 were bumiputra students.<\/p>\n<p>He said the assistance was extended to the students who scored 10 A1s and who came from low-income families, earning below RM1,500 a month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We accepted it as that and did not try to adjust anything,&#8221; he said, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">clarifying an earlier report, which said more bumiputra applicants were given &#8220;fast lane assistance&#8221; compared to the non-bumiputra<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Ismail pointed out the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">figure was actually the opposite<\/span><\/strong>, adding that while scholarships for these students were &#8220;almost assured of, they still had to attend interviews.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/5\/30\/nation\/20080530160733&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, I wrote that Star and NST gave conflicting reports on the breakdown of the 151 fast track students. Looks like someone read my blog and checked on it (yeah&#8230;wishful thinking!). Looks like Star reported wrongly this time. PSD clarifies below that 117 normal Malaysians and 34 privileged Malaysian were those who qualified. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,84],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-education","tag-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","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=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}