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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Students in limbo as scholarships scrapped despite Muhyiddin’s earlier assurance, says DAP lawmaker

Serdang MP Dr Ong Kian Ming says students were not aware of the Education Ministry's move to scrap the partial scholarship for overseas study. – The Malaysian Insider pic, August 26, 2014.Serdang MP Dr Ong Kian Ming says students were not aware of the Education Ministry's move to scrap the partial scholarship for overseas study. – The Malaysian Insider pic, August 26, 2014.
DAP today questioned the rationale behind the scrapping of the Overseas Undergraduate Scholarship Programme (PILN), saying that many were caught by surprise by the Education Ministry's sudden move.
Serdang MP Dr Ong Kian Ming said the scrapping of PILN also contradicted Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's promise in 2012 that the programme would continue.
"Students have been waiting to apply to the Public Services Department (PSD) for the PILN only to be told that the ministry has run out of funds," Ong said.
Ong told a press conference at the DAP headquarters in Jalan Yew today that students only discovered that the scholarship had been scrapped when they went to the PSD office in Putrajaya in July.
"The students were told that the programme had been scrapped due to the lack of funds."
The PILN is a partial scholarship programme for students who have failed to score 9As in their SPM. Students in this category are known as non-bursary students.
Scholarship students are those who have scored 9As and above in their SPM examinations.
The condition for these non-bursary students to qualify for a scholarship is to score an average CGPA score of 3.5 and to receive an unconditional offer from the top 10 universities in the world.
The acceptable courses are medical, dental and pharmaceutical for the top 10 universities.
Alternatively, these students can score a CGPA average of 3.5 and receive an unconditional offer to enter any of the top 50 universities in the world for any other degree.
Ong said the ministry should have a clear policy that explained how the PSD scholarships were awarded so that students would have the opportunity to further their studies abroad.
"Did Muhyiddin give the wrong information when he made his statement in 2012?" asked Ong.
"Was he aware that RM2.12 billion which had been allocated to the PSD for local and foreign scholarships in 2012 was insufficient for non-bursary students?"
Ong added that those qualified for the PILN included 1,609 students who achieved 9As or more and priority were given to students pursuing their studies abroad.
"To make a promise before retracting it two years later is a classic example of unfulfilled promises made by the Barisan Nasional government," Ong said.
In April 2012, it was reported that Muhyiddin had announced that PILN scholarships would resume as soon as the SPM results were released.
- TMI

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