Only in Malaysia can you find biased scholarships!
Only in Malaysia can you find race-based policies that determine scholarship allocations!
Only in Malaysia is the needy yet deserving students marginalizes when it comes to scholarship allocations!
We call this Malaysia Boleh! And mind you that’s nothing to be proud about. Every year it’s the same thing all over again. Straight A’s students who for no good reason are deprived of the opportunity to further their studies – all because biased policies that are the norm ensure that these deserving students are not allocated scholarships.
The PSD claim of ensure all straight A’s students receive scholarships is a farce of magnanimous proportions. Once more, as has happened for years on end, top scorers are still denied scholarships. Instead the large portion of scholarships end up going to lesser performing students who might or might not be deserving the funds. Worse still is that there are cases of the rich and well provided for who somehow still manage to get scholarships. In a system that rewards the mediocre and forgets the top performers, the Malaysian education and scholarship machinery can only be surmised to be biased and lacking in foresight.
Policies that practice racial biasness in the allocation of scholarships will only engender further racial discord. In their agenda to raise one race above the others, these shortsighted policies of the government is greatly ignoring the fact that the boycotted top performers of today are the building blocks of this county’s future. When you ignore your future’s prospects, you are only undermining your own self.
Chances are the top performers will have to look to other avenues to find a means to further their education. This usually results in their taking up of foreign scholarship offers. For years it has been a known fact that Singapore has displayed more foresight in luring those top performers that are blatantly ignored here in Malaysia over to their country. And the chance is high that those who except the offer will often choose not to come back to their homeland.
After all were you in their shoes, can you honestly say that you want to come back and serve Malaysia – the very country that couldn’t be bothered to provide for you? Let us not kid ourselves here. The answer is most definitely a resounding NO!
As for myself, a person who has already completed his studies I am already past this stage of mockery in our education system. All that is left for me to decide is in due course when I do decide to have kids – will I want to put my children through the same process that is highly likely to continue it’s biased ways and practices? I most probably would be seriously looking at other avenues which might result in my having to migrate away from Malaysia. I don’t want to but circumstances dictate otherwise.
