{"id":5169,"date":"2009-06-19T23:09:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2009-06-19T23:09:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T15:09:19","slug":"usm-absorbs-balance-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/06\/19\/usm-absorbs-balance-students\/","title":{"rendered":"USM absorbs balance students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/05\/31\/usm-blunder-puts-it-in-hot-soup\/\" target=\"_blank\">the blunder<\/a> by USM, the balance students who did not get a place in any other public universities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/6\/19\/nation\/20090619181319&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">were absorbed <\/a>by USM. That&#8217;s above 150 students.4,574 students who were mistakenly declared as successful in USM application managed to get a place in one of the other 19 public universities (but not sure if their choice of course).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Higher Education Ministry director-general Prof Datuk Dr Radin Umar Radin Sohadi said the 150 did not receive other offers as they did not apply to the ministry\u2019s student admissions department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsorbing the students will not complicate matters as USM-supplied data shows that not all accepted students took up their offers,\u201d he said at the ministry\u2019s press conference concerning the 2009 public university intake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the absorbed students may not obtain places in their preferred course,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, is something better that nothing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the blunder by USM, the balance students who did not get a place in any other public universities were absorbed by USM. That&#8217;s above 150 students.4,574 students who were mistakenly declared as successful in USM application managed to get a place in one of the other 19 public universities (but not sure if their [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169","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=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5171,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/5171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}