Posts Tagged ‘ scholarships ’
I think that it is dumb. According to TheStar, our government is considering to limit the number of subjects taken by SPM students to ensure fairer scholarship selection. Although I do not think that the current free-for-all was a good thing to have, I do not agree with this methodology to address the issue of [ READ MORE ]
I attended the scholarship forum organised by DAP yesterday, mainly because I am personally interested in education matters and also because I was curious as to what kind of things does DAP have to say about it. They managed to present some data and I actually thought that things weren’t as bad as it may [ READ MORE ]
Since this is an annual thing, I thought that I should just put a few words down to tell the kids who got rejected by JPA – Don’t Give Up! Dear JPA Reject, I shall use the words that I had once heard, from a good professor of mine: “Although you may feel dejected, do not feel [ READ MORE ]
Education scholarships. Our government disburses many of them through its many agencies and government linked companies. We are fortunate in that we have one of the most generous national governments, when it comes to educational funding. However, there are many things about these scholarships that trigger an emotional response when people talk about them. This reminds [ READ MORE ]
The recent suggestion by our Selangor MB that UiTM (Universiti Teknologi MARA) open up it’s doors to people of other races and foreigners, has been met with all kinds of responses. To those who do not know, UiTM is pretty much a single-ethnic university, which was founded by MARA, a government agency created to funnel [ READ MORE ]
I’ve just recently read an article in TheStar about something that is usually bandied about as meritocracy. Then, there has been a recent blog entry that showed the results of the “meritocracy” based university entry system that was imposed several years ago. meritocracy n 1: a form of social system in which [ READ MORE ]
Annual scholarship rejection time. This is a drama that our country goes through every year and personally, I’m getting a little sick of it all. There is a problem and the problem needs fixing. Let’s put on my engineering hat and try to figure out what to do with it. According to TheStar, the PSD DG [ READ MORE ]
Seems like a recent development, but the Public Services Department, has announced that they will be offering scholarships to anyone, who scored 9As and above, in last year’s SPM examinations. In addition, anyone who manages to secure a place in a top international university, will also be given scholarships. All this is regardless of background. [ READ MORE ]
I’ve recently read a blog (here and here) about the problems facing students who take the Chinese language paper for SPM examinations. The blog discussed the perceived problems with the difficulties in scoring a 1A in the exam, which leads to students losing opportunities for scholarships. So, I did a little bit of haphazard research [ READ MORE ]