Scholars dilemma
This is a post i personally posted in Recom.org ( i am N-guy btw). Please do let me know your views on the pertaining matter. Thank You :)The situation today is that people are being over dependent on scholarships . This actually ruins the actual meaning of scholarship as compared to last time. The thing here is that what might be a the actual reason behind it? The fame? or perhaps more accurate if i say you really wanted to lighten your family burden? If you prefer the latter then perhaps you are right one.
The issue that saddens me is that many child who could afford education seem to be extremely greedy when it comes to scholarships.Let's put a situation,student A and student B A is from a urban area.He goes to tuition for almost every single day, he owns his very own room with good facilities and his parents are quite well-to-so. B on other hand, is not so unfortunate. Both of his parents are illiterate,he has 4 siblings.Luckily for him,his parents at least gave a ray of hope by urging him to pursue education.However unlike A,he stays in a rumah murah,and has to share everything. When the results are announced,A scored 10 1As and B,scored 9 1A and 1 2A in Moral due the lack of proper guidance in his school.
Now can you see who would have obtained the scholarship? JPA in truth doen't really look into the matter so deeply ....they set up a marking scheme and poof!!!.......the rest, you know what i have to say! The biggest query of mine here is that why do they(affordable ones) have to hamper others' opportunities( i know someone,her dad owns a chain of successful business,yet she obtained a scholarship to pursue law in UK).If you have the cash why burden the deserving one? Another thing is that preference.....Some might have obtained the scholarship,but deny it anyway. The reason?? Well,countries like India,Indonesia and Russia do not appeal their aristocratic mind set. If your ambition is to become a doctor why bother the place in the first place? What you want is education and education is obtainable regardless of the place. A friend of mine even rejected a JPA offer to study medicine in PMC because, in her point of view,she had 13 1As so deserves the best.Can someone enlighten me on this pertaining mentality?? In the end we would lose up many bright yet unfortunate people like B who flees to obtain a better scope.
Another thing here is that why JPA scholars are taking pre-U qualifications like SAM,CPU,A-Levels and IB? i believe that STPM could be materialised as a solid pre-U qualification instead of those. Besides having an international recognition,it could be popularised just like what SSABSA and Edexcel done to popularize their respective qualification. Actually looking more in-depth,we could actually solve the whole Malaysian ranking dilemma. The reason is simple. If we open up STPM internationally, more bright mind can be absorbed into our education system. Take singapore for example, the success of NUS is due to many ASEAN bright minds have been given a chance to indulge in their system. Thats explains NUS's ranking in the 1st quartile. Thats the one solid reason why i personally salute NUS for coming up with some brilliant ideas to set the satndards high. I really hope we could come up in that very manner soon because i love my country very much........Don't let the attitude ruin everyone's progression
posted by Naveen @ 2:27 pm
4 Comments:
well.. i know what u mean about student A n B. My mum had a sterling candidate in her school who was dirt poor yet was rejected for the JPA offer.. more well to do, yet lesser scoring students were given the offer instead. like WTH?!
And about your line.." What you want is education and education is obtainable regardless of the place." Well. Navindran. I am redoing SAM right now because of this. Spending 12-13K again because I did not want to go to Indonesia, Russia, Ukraine, and yes even India (no matter how wonderful people claim Manipal has become recently)because of the STANDARD OF EDUCATION. I don't want to generalise.. n sound like such a bigot. But the MBBS degree from these places are not as good as those from say, the UK, Ireland, Australia.. and so on. It is a lesser degree because the standard there is lower. The examining standards, n so on. This is proven by the recent news that just a mere handful of doctors from these very countries coming back to malaysia and failing the qualifying test (i cant remember the name of the exam). Proof, no?Yes yes, social stigma also counts and all that. "where ah, ur daughter did her mbbs? Russia ar? oh.." (though this is NOT a qualifying argument) Haha.
More on this as the issue develops. I want to see what others think.
And I really agree with your last point, on STPM being the stipulated matric done by JPA scholars. I always wondered the rationale of sending them to private colleges to do these money -squandering programs.
And Navin. I want to know your opinion on the lovely issue of decidedly undeserving people gaining entry into universities and such using "contacts" and the like.
*grins*
Something tells me your blog is going to be among my most hit sites everytime I veg online. Kudos, dude.
thanks for your opinion...
well,MBBS,is such highly priced degree. And till now i cannot digest the real reason behind it.
why would someone spend some RM 650000 on a degree where you get a start up salary lesser than RM 5000?
come on people,give ya cynic views
and Jenna,i ll do my research on that topic you suggested before publishing it :)
Thanks anyway
Why JPA never use STPM for pre-u? 2 reasons, either it consume to much time
or the more appropriate reason is :
Go check out last year newspaper and find out which race has the lowest number of people getting straight A's
mong, macha i get your reason...
it's not the matter of race...It's the need for our country to improve the university ranking.
well, with that said, JPA scholars shouldn't be highly deemed (if the no of 1A counts) because i truly believe SPM couldn't be used as the yardstick
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