UPDATED @ 09:07:12 PM 24-05-2011
He held a press conference in Parliament here this afternoon to clear all confusion over the issue by explaining the mechanics behind PSD’s scholarship awards, including its selection process and criteria.
In his explanation, Nazri reiterated that in tandem with the prime minister’s pledge last year, all SPM students who scored straight 8A+ and above were guaranteed a place in either local or foreign institutions.
He added that the scholarships offered were centered on courses considered critical to Malaysia’s civil service like medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, engineering, science and technology, and social sciences.
“We have two major categories for the scholarship awards. One is the PILN (overseas degree programme) for 1,500 students and another is the PIDN (local degree programme) for 2,500 students, both amounting to 4,000.
“We also offer 8,000 spots in local universities for other qualified students who will get scholarships for matriculation or diploma courses,” he said.
He revealed that of the 4,000 PILN and PIDN scholarships awarded to the 2010 batch of SPM top scorers, 2,183 spots, or 55 per cent, were snapped up by Bumiputera students and 1,817, or 45 per cent, were offered to the non-Bumiputeras.
A total of 16,900 students (7,277, or 43.1 per cent, Bumiputeras and 9,623, or 56.9 per cent, non-Bumiputeras) had applied for PILN scholarships, he said, but only 8,857 made the cut with the minimum academic requirement of straight 9A+ and above.
Nazri also explained that out of the 1,500 scholarships offered for PILN, 300 were given out solely based on merit to the highest scoring students.
“If I’m not mistaken, 363 students qualified for the merit scholarship interviews but we could only give out 300 in the end,” he said.
Nazri also explained that since only 1,500 PILN scholarships were offered to the 8,857 qualified applicants, the remaining 7,357 who failed to make the cut were still allowed to apply within the PIDN category.
As there were only 2,500 spots offered under PIDN, he added, the remaining 4,857 students who failed their interviews would still be eligible for the 8,000 scholarships offered to other qualified students who would be offered matriculation or diploma courses at local institutions.
Nazri revealed that the government was spending a total of RM1.44 billion for the 4,000 scholarships offered under PILN and PIDN — RM1.08 billion for PILN and RM0.36 billion for PIDN.
Nazri also continued to chastise MCA Youth chief Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong for raising a hue and cry by alleging abuses of power in the PSD without first attempting to clarify the confusion with him as the minister in charge of PSD.
“We have to be fair to the officers. When you are a politician and you attack a civil servant, they cannot defend themselves. I am doing this on behalf of all the excellent officers that we have,” he declared.
Nazri revealed that both the prime minister and his deputy had been briefed on PSD’s selections for the year on May 5, before the awards were announced on May 13.魏家祥：獎學金分配今年最亂 實在無厘頭
（吉隆坡18日訊）教育部副部長拿督魏家祥抨擊公共服務局，未優先處理363名考獲全科A+考生的獎學金申請，11A+和10A+優秀生僅獲本地大學預科班獎學金，4A+及5A+卻獲海外獎金學。
450份獎學金優先處理
魏家祥形容，今年海內外獎學金分配是有史以來最嚴重的亂象，官員的分配方式更是“無厘頭”。
他促請首相拿督斯裡納吉及副首相丹斯裡慕尤丁介入解決問題。
魏家祥今午在馬華總部召開記者會時，針對今年公共服務局海內外獎學金官員分配科系獎學金不當，感到怒火沖冠，他在記者會上直指負責分配的官員“無厘頭”。
“我們今天召開記者會是針對今年海內外獎學金發放及分配不當，感到遺憾，這是我們成立這么多年以來，最無厘頭的一次。”
“所謂的無厘頭，就是這過去包括去年，我們都先處理被鑑定是最優秀的考生，不分種族只看成績，但今年不是。”
魏家祥透露，今年共有1500名優秀生，當中共有363名考生考獲全科A+，在1500人中，其中有20%（即300分名額）的全科A+考生必須獲得優先處理，另外，沙巴及砂拉越各別擁有5%(即75人)獲得優先處理，共450分名額。
“但為何450分優先處理的獎學金，無法妥善分配給今年考獲全科A+的363名學生？”
他指出，有關獎學金被分發后，他們接獲的投訴聲稱，考獲10A+及11A+的考生只獲本地大學獎學金，而4A+及5A+卻被安排到海外國家就讀大學。
海內外獎學金分配7大問題
1.應該得到的沒有得到，不應該得到的卻得到。
2.科系及獎學金亂配。
3.考生連私立大專院校獎學金也得不到。
4.獎學金延遲公佈日期，巧遇週末，考生求助無門。
5.考生接受獎學金的答复日期應延長。
6.預科班或許出現名額有限問題。
7.考生要求更換深造國家。
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