{"id":2220,"date":"2008-07-20T23:31:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T15:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/20\/gerakan-president-says-psd-should-consider-scholarship-applicant-background\/"},"modified":"2008-07-20T23:32:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T15:32:05","slug":"gerakan-president-says-psd-should-consider-scholarship-applicant-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/20\/gerakan-president-says-psd-should-consider-scholarship-applicant-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerakan president says PSD should consider scholarship applicant background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerakan&#8217;s acting president Koh Tsu Koon appears to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/14\/dr-subra-on-psd-scholarship-government-jobs-and-cabinet-committee\/\">disagree<\/a> with MIC&#8217;s Dr S.Subramaniam on the criteria for awarding JPA scholarships. He gives the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Sunday\/National\/2298272\/Article\/index_html\">following scenario<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>     A student from a poor family scores 9As in his examinations  while another from a rich family scores  11As.<\/p>\n<p>    If there was only one scholarship available, which student should be given it?<\/p>\n<p>Koh said the government should check the backgrounds of the two students, instead of focusing on academic achievements when granting scholarships.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, Koh agrees with the 55:45 allocation, which is fast becoming a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/17\/scholarship-quota-a-problem\/\">point of contention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is your answer to Koh&#8217;s scenario?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerakan&#8217;s acting president Koh Tsu Koon appears to disagree with MIC&#8217;s Dr S.Subramaniam on the criteria for awarding JPA scholarships. He gives the following scenario: A student from a poor family scores 9As in his examinations while another from a rich family scores 11As. If there was only one scholarship available, which student should be [&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":[112,19,84,70],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-funds","tag-gerakan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","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=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}