New "Education" Episode Set to Unveil
Finally, the "seasonal" episode of scholarship appeals is coming to a close with PSD providing additional scholarships to all students with 11 A1 and above. However, the public are still left in doubt as to whether the same episode of the incident will continue in the future. The lack of transparency in PSD selection process is still up in limbo.
Today will be the "D-DAY" for STPM (or matriculation) students where they will know the outcome of their application to local institutes of higher learning. Judging from previous history, the Malaysian public can expect another episode similar to the scholarship fiasco.
I foresee many upset students will be complaining through local media about the outcome of their application. Some political spin-doctors will be out to steal some "limelight". The Higher Education Ministry will be out again with the same old excuse "We limited places in the public universities, hence, we cannot accommodate everyone". At the end of the day, the PM will have to step up to the centre-stage to calm everyone down as he did in previous year, calling for more places to be allocated next year, more universities to be built in the future etc.
Following the announcement, we will see political parties such as MCA, UMNO and MIC will be making their way into the local media to be seen as helping disappointed candidates in their appeal process (I wonder any of the Democrats or Republicans in the US is doing this).
Prior to this university admission episode, we already seen UMNO Youth trying to influence the Higher Education Ministry in order to review the current admission standards which is purported based on "meritocracy" instead of the old quota system. Excuse such as the lack of bumi students in "critical" courses are used to support their appeal.
It's pretty ironic to come to think of it. On one hand, we see a big number of graduates failing to secure employment (majority of the are of bumi as well as graduates from local public universities). On the other hand, we have an influential political group trying to get their way in order to create higher admission rate for bumi students. How are we ever going to solve the unemployment issues among local graduates? How do you convince employers that these graduates are of good quality and not been given the scrolls just to satisfy some political agenda?
Like it or not, our country is going to face the big tide of globalization. It is inevitable. When the time come, we will be facing hell a lot more competition compared to what we are facing now. If we aimed to achieve a developed nation around 2020, it is important that we recognize our own weaknesses now and try hard to correct them. No point trying to impose political will on employers to hire unqualified candidates for the job. No point in shouting slogans that Malaysia will become a regional education hub when rating on our university has been declining year by year. No point in coughing up sheer numbers of university graduates when a big number of them can hardly secure a job.
In short, no point trying to prevent the inevitable.
As the Borg species in Star Trek will say, "Resistance is futile !!"
Today will be the "D-DAY" for STPM (or matriculation) students where they will know the outcome of their application to local institutes of higher learning. Judging from previous history, the Malaysian public can expect another episode similar to the scholarship fiasco.
I foresee many upset students will be complaining through local media about the outcome of their application. Some political spin-doctors will be out to steal some "limelight". The Higher Education Ministry will be out again with the same old excuse "We limited places in the public universities, hence, we cannot accommodate everyone". At the end of the day, the PM will have to step up to the centre-stage to calm everyone down as he did in previous year, calling for more places to be allocated next year, more universities to be built in the future etc.
Following the announcement, we will see political parties such as MCA, UMNO and MIC will be making their way into the local media to be seen as helping disappointed candidates in their appeal process (I wonder any of the Democrats or Republicans in the US is doing this).
Prior to this university admission episode, we already seen UMNO Youth trying to influence the Higher Education Ministry in order to review the current admission standards which is purported based on "meritocracy" instead of the old quota system. Excuse such as the lack of bumi students in "critical" courses are used to support their appeal.
It's pretty ironic to come to think of it. On one hand, we see a big number of graduates failing to secure employment (majority of the are of bumi as well as graduates from local public universities). On the other hand, we have an influential political group trying to get their way in order to create higher admission rate for bumi students. How are we ever going to solve the unemployment issues among local graduates? How do you convince employers that these graduates are of good quality and not been given the scrolls just to satisfy some political agenda?
Like it or not, our country is going to face the big tide of globalization. It is inevitable. When the time come, we will be facing hell a lot more competition compared to what we are facing now. If we aimed to achieve a developed nation around 2020, it is important that we recognize our own weaknesses now and try hard to correct them. No point trying to impose political will on employers to hire unqualified candidates for the job. No point in shouting slogans that Malaysia will become a regional education hub when rating on our university has been declining year by year. No point in coughing up sheer numbers of university graduates when a big number of them can hardly secure a job.
In short, no point trying to prevent the inevitable.
As the Borg species in Star Trek will say, "Resistance is futile !!"
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