DAP blames Putrajaya for scholarship mess
The Penang chief minister was responding to the recent idea floated by Education Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong as a stop-gap move to resolve the recurring problem.
Wee suggested examination top-scorers who failed to be funded for further studies to their choice universities accept first the offers made to them before filing an appeal with the Public Service Department (PSD).
Lim, however, called the idea “ridiculous”.
“Why should the people who have not done any wrong be the ones who have to appeal?” he questioned in a statement.
He pointed out the proposal compounded the perception of injustice as the beneficiaries of the problematic system appeared to be let off while the “victims” were punished for the red-tape error.
“This is exactly the kind of issue that has contributed to the growing national brain drain problem,” the opposition lawmaker for Bagan said.
The MCA had acknowledged the same after a recent UN report stated 57 per cent of Malaysians were in professional employment in neighbouring Singapore.
“How can the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) efforts to attract and retain human talent work when the federal government officials cannot even get it right the simple job of offering scholarships to the best students and instead awarding it to the worst?” the DAP secretary-general said, and demanded PSD officials be punished for their misconduct.
The award of public scholarships recurs annually following the announcement of the SPM results.
Wee had told reporters yesterday some 363 straight A+ students who deserved to be funded to study abroad had lost out to those with lower grades.
The MCA Youth chief added PSD — which decides on the scholarship awards — had offered the top scholars local matriculation or diploma programmes.
Wee said the issue would be raised at the Cabinet meeting next week.
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