{"id":2497,"date":"2008-11-02T16:17:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T08:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/11\/02\/matriculation-programme-to-expand\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T16:21:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T08:21:53","slug":"matriculation-programme-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/11\/02\/matriculation-programme-to-expand\/","title":{"rendered":"Matriculation programme to expand"},"content":{"rendered":"

From NST<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said the matriculation centres were important as they gave a chance to Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) holders, particularly Bumiputera students, to secure a place in public universities….Before the matriculation programme was introduced in the 1980s, Bumiputera students who excelled in their studies found it difficult to enrol at public universities due to the limited places.<\/p>\n

“Some of them were also stuck at the STPM (Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia) level and could not further their studies,…<\/p>\n

…Najib said the matriculation programme had reduced the gap between the intake of Bumiputera and non-Bumiputera students. “It has helped to increase the number of Bumiputera students in public higher learning institutions, particularly in courses such as medicine, dentistry, architecture, accounting and management.”<\/p>\n

Najib said the matriculation programme was also open to non-Bumiputera students, who had been allocated 10 per cent of the available places.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that’s the funny thing. STPM is considered tough and a hurdle, thus matriculation was introduced. What does that imply?<\/p>\n

Thus Malay (or is bumiputera?) SPM leavers took a separate route to public universities, to enrol in bachelor degree programs. Also, 10 percent of the places are allocated to other Malaysians (this was done recently – about 5 years ago, I think).<\/p>\n

Every year, there will complaints and unhappiness over matriculation students intake versus STPM students intake, comparison of syllabus, and also performance of both sets of students in public universities.<\/p>\n

Four more matriculation colleges will be completed by 2010, in addition to the existing nine, bringing the number of available places to more than 40,000. Not only this policy is to remain, but its to be developed further! When would the discrimination end?<\/p>\n

This discrimination is also one of the things that segregates the public. After 10 years, is such discriminative policy still needed? We have ample public universities, and we have poor students from all walks of life.\u00a0 Steps should be taken to remove such restrictions. For example, we can replace matriculation syllabus with STPM while maintaining the ratio. This will ensure a fair entrance for all universtity students. Or we can increase the ratio from 10 percent to 20 percent, until in future it becomes an open entrance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From NST: …Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said the matriculation centres were important as they gave a chance to Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) holders, particularly Bumiputera students, to secure a place in public universities….Before the matriculation programme was introduced in the 1980s, Bumiputera students who excelled in their studies found it difficult to […]<\/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":[112,19,122],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-najib-tun-razak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497","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=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}