Since this is my first post, I reckon it might as well be a 'productive' one. Throw in more of an intellectual topic rather than just an "ahh, alright then, fair enough" (one-off) topic.
Anyway, the JPA scholarships has been going on for a while now. Some say base the distribution of the scholarships on meritocracy whilst others say increase the numbers of quota. Lets be fair here, all of these are provoked by a few numbers of candidates who questions the system that the governments practices, and eventually it got political. Unfortunate for Malaysia, some of this politicians desperately need supports from others to pursue their own agendas; they saw the opportunity so they grab it by the throat. Therefore a lot of sparks going on here and there, started from it being a government transparency issue to ethnic diversity issue.
My point here is that we can't really rely fully on the government to support our financial needs. There are a lot of other bodies in the private sectors such as TNB and the NGOs (Yayasan Al-Bukhari) giving out scholarships to potential Malaysian students.
After reading Bakri Musa's thought, I'd figured as much as well, i think its time for us to abolish JPA scholarships. Its just a mean for politicians to achieve their personal gains.
Don't get me wrong though. I'm not implying we should punish our gifted students here by abolishing JPA scholarship, however, what did Bakri Musa brought out does have some logics behind it. And to add more to this, one assemblyman mentioned in the parliment recently that how many of our JPA scholarship holders actually came back after their studies work with the government? Some of them even took the initiative to work overseas.
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