Government Scholarship to Bumi and Non-Bumiputra issue

I really feel annoyed when some top non-bumi students were denied scholearhip and government loans last tiem. And this has been on and on for too long a time. GPMS and MUAF had already made press statement on the issue.

While some would prefer more allorcation to bumi, we have to be realistic about it. While discarding the bumi allorcation would not be a good and popular idea for the government at this time, we still need to give some kind of meritocracy. It is also time that we commit less on the bumi, non-bumi matters. Thare are many bumis who can afford to buy houses in Australia, so they should even afford to send their kids overseas.

My ideas on the scholarship for undergraduates would be as follows.
40% - top scorers fro ordinary families (not the super rich ones)
60% - potential students from poor families with very good grades.

TOP SCORERS
40 percent of the scholarship will be offered to all top students regardless of their being bumi or not.
While I would like to see it as it is, the govt could divide this to bumi and non-bumi allorcation as well.
for example 60% of the top student allocation goes to bumi, and 40 percent to non-bumi.


POTENTIAL STUDENTS
The rest of the 60% from above would be based on potentially good student from poor families based on racial composition plus a little bit more for the bumis. I would illustrate it as below:
1) 60 of the potential student allocation will be given to potential students from poor bumi families.
2) the 40 percent balance would be to potential students from poor non-bumi families.

That seems good in the next few years. But after a while, we should give the top scorers allocation and potential students allocation based on true racial composition.


my 2 sen