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On how PSD scholarship policy is twisted and manipulated

I agree with Deputy Education Minister Wee Ka Siong when he said that subject limit and PSD scholarships are separate issues.

For Muhyiddin Yassin, there are more questions than answers. The Public Service Department (PSD) has to publish selection criteria used for bumi and non-bumi students to show that they are assessed on a same set of criteria. For example, how top non-bumi students are offered places in local university or matriculation class while top bumi students are sent abroad for overseas universities.

If what was reported in the papers is correct, top non-bumi students are offered places in local universities or matriculation classes while moderate non-bumi students are instead offered overseas scholarships. This is considered a form of racial discrimination and abuse of power in the PSD.

Did the Cabinet instruct PSD to flip-flop the selection criteria this year? Why top students are sent to lower ranking local universities which is against the meritocracy principle? By right, only the best universities for the best students regardless whether they are bumi or non-bumi. Why send our best students to local universities when they could attain entry to top notch schools such as Cambridge University, Imperial College, Harward University, Beijing University, etc?

Whether a student sits for nine or 20 subjects, it shall not be an issue or used as a smokescreen to divert real issue in the scholarship selection process. As long as PSD has a set of transparent and fair criteria in place, there will never be accusations of unfairness or manipulation.

How then a Malay girl who scored 20 A1s was awarded overseas scholarship without going through the normal selection process?

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