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Monday, July 22, 2013

‘Find a fair solution to varsity intake woes’

DAP's Kulasegaran says there is a need for a bipartisan select committee to come up with a permanent and fair solution on non-Malay intake into public universities.
PETALING JAYA: DAP vice chairman M Kulasegaran wants an end to the perennial problem of top non-Malay students not getting places in public universities.
And, to this end he has suggested the government set up a bipartisan parliamentary select committee on matriculation and public university intake.
“This is a perennial problem which is not only causing heartaches to students and parents, but also a cause of national disunity and brain drain,” he said.
Recently, the government reported that about 18,000 non-Malay students failed to get places in public institutions of higher learning although they had met the requirements.
It had since prompted Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to order the Cabinet to hold an investigation into the problem, which has been going on for many years.
Kulasegaran said that the bi-partisan committee must be tasked to study and propose a permanent and fair solution to resolve the matter once and for all.
“And the composition of the bipartisan committee should comprise of both government and opposition parliamentarians,” he said.
Kulasegaran said that the authorities cannot keep giving lame excuses to defend their failure in giving places to top students in public universities.
“Just listen to their pathetic excuses. Chief among them is that there are too many applicants for limited places and the students got low marks for extra-curricular activities.
“Such explanations are nonsensical as there are allegations that students with lower CGPAs and extracurricular marks are offered places at public universities,” said the Ipoh Barat MP.
Kulasegaran also took to task MIC deputy president Dr S Subramaniam for saying “in all countries, not everyone who applies gets a place in universities”.
“Subramaniam has forgotten that we are talking about top scorers being denied entry into public universities, not students who just met the minimum requirement,” he said.
The DAP leader also pointed out several discrepancies in the university intake assessment between matriculation and STPM students, especially on assessing the marks for extra curricular activity.
“While matriculation students are assessed based on their extra-curricular activities for the matriculation year alone, STPM students are assessed based on their entire secondary school life.
“This has resulted in matriculation students having an unfair added advantage,” said Kulasegaran.

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