The Colour of Scholarships
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The Colour of Scholarships ± By Azira Aziz Ed.: The following is an article we received written by a former student of law at Universiti Teknologi Mara. When Najib proposed to open scholarship opportunities to all top scorers, particularly 9A¶s and above, I saluted the move and thought nothing more of the matter. A politician buckling to popular tit -bits is nothing new and at least he¶s heading in the right direction. However, it irked me as the usual Malay-rights groups, the Perkasa-led Malay Consultative Council (MPM) responded to it with ³constructive´ criticisms, claiming that it should instead reflect 67% of the Malay community in Malaysia. My response to this is this: firstly, Professor Datuk Dr Kamarudin Kachar, not all 67% are Malaysian Malays. Some of them are actually assimilated Indonesians whose parents holds red MyKads. Many Malaysians are denied opportunities on the fallacy that they are of the wrong ethnicity and that they are less likely to be ³loyal´ to Malaysia. Instead, as long as you are a ³Malay,´ ³imported´ or not, you are entitled to a scholarship, and admittance to heavily subsidised boarding schools. I am not saying that despite Malaysian-born students of Indonesian parentage are intelligent enough, they do not deserve scholarships by virtue of their parents being immigrants. Quite the contrary, hard work and diligence should always be rewarded. I know some of these kids ± they¶ve studied hard and they should be awarded where deserved. I am simply pointing out how our education system discriminates Malaysians. I think it ridiculous that descendants of immigrants are awarded privileges denied to generations born and raised Malaysians by basis of race and religion. The argument that affirmative action policies are meant to help the Malays falls here. Right to education of citizens of Malaysia distributed on basis of race and religion is
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