Deserving Indian students denied places in Matriculation Courses
Parit Buntar district students Mathanraj s/o Ravinthira – 9As’, Langgeswaran s/o Jayaraman – 8As’ and Devathas s/o Vijayan who scored 11As’ in their SPM examination feel disappointed and upset when they have been denied places in matriculation programmes even though they scored well, whereas their Malay Muslim classmates who only scored 2As’ and 3As’ being offered places in such programmes. The students’ parent also asking why their children are being denied places in matriculation courses despite of their excellent results. This is classic racial discrimination which has been going on for the last 40 years!
Parit Buntar district students Mathanraj s/o Ravinthira – 9As’, Langgeswaran s/o Jayaraman – 8As’ and Devathas s/o Vijayan who scored 11As’ in their SPM examination feel disappointed and upset when they have been denied places in matriculation programmes even though they scored well, whereas their Malay Muslim classmates who only scored 2As’ and 3As’ being offered places in such programmes. The students’ parent also asking why their children are being denied places in matriculation courses despite of their excellent results. This is classic racial discrimination which has been going on for the last 40 years!There are 40,000 places in the nine matriculation colleges nationwide (UM 2/11/08 at page 4) plus the MARA Kulim and Kuala Nerang schools which also provides matriculation courses and the three technical matriculation colleges. 70% of these matriculation students undergo a mere one year foundation courses in critical fields like Law, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy etc to get into the Institutions of Higher Learning (UM Headlines 6/4/2010). Whereas the non malays have to undergo the two year STPM exams.
One Malay-sia?
P. Uthayakumar
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