I believe that education is an effective device for lifting human beings from poverty. As schooling is no longer reasonably priced in Malaysia, each hopeful scholar endeavors to attain educational excellence to receive relaxed scholarships or monetary aid.
I am a victim of the injustice in our education gadget, which seems to defy the global trend by awarding scholarships to students based no longer on academic excellence but on racial agendas.
I labored hard to reap full As in UPSR and PMR, 8A+s, 2As, and 1 A- in SPM. In the quit, the result of my difficult paintings turned into zero scholarship for my tertiary education. I decided to push forward regardless, and I am on the way to a lesson fee waiver from Methodist College Kuala Lumpur.
I brushed off my disappointment and endured, and fortuitously, I finished my pre-college qualification because of the top pupil in my elegance. Once more, no openings for sponsorship were available.
Despite knowing the risk was slim, I applied for a USM position because priorities are commonly accorded to matriculation and STPM students. My performance for the duration of the interview session needed to be lackluster because I no longer cut.
People would wonder why I no longer opted for matriculation or STPM inside the first location. Firstly, there may be a quota system in matriculation that places non-bumiputra students like me at a wonderful drawback. Secondly, we do not get to choose our diploma of desire, as many elements except merit are considered.
I did now not desire to go away the rest of my lifestyle to destiny and the whims of those humans in price who, for many years, had been throwing meritocracy out of the window.
Nonetheless, my incredible parents devised an answer for me to also my schooling. They dipped into their retirement fund (they reached retirement age at the top of my secondary education) and borrowed a hefty sum from my uncle. Meanwhile, I carried out every other mortgage from the National Higher Education Fund Corporation ((PTPTN).
I also implemented for and efficaciously secured a half-mortgage half-of-furnish scholarship from the Kuok Foundation to look at dentistry at the International Medical University (IMU).
Looking back now, I probably must have sought less expensive alternatives in universities. However, I knew that my mother and father might need to provide high-quality for me.
Again, I worked at IMU and graduated as a pinnacle pupil in my graduating class. I was elated, but the pleasure was short-lived once I discovered that, regardless of being the best scholar in the class, I was no longer eligible for the PTPTN loan exemption due to an exceptional assessment machine and crude conversion approach.
Thus, I was conclusively denied any financial sponsorship from the government during my schooling adventure.
The government encourages Malaysians in remote places to return and contribute to the United States. But how can we be assured of our destiny if a device that belittles our hard work is in place?
I have tried unique avenues at different stages of my instructional adventure to get a government scholarship based on merit but to no avail.
Insanity is doing something repeatedly but expecting different consequences. One can only hope for a silver lining in the challenges confronting Malaysian students now.