Scholarshps should only be given based on merit.

I am perplexed that Malay Consultative council (MPM) comittee member, Professor Kamarudin Kachar could even come out with a suggestion that PSD scholarship should be given out on the basis of racial quotas. How ridiculous it is of him to suggest that meritocracy should not be the sole criteria in determining the award of scholarships and that instead it should be given 67% of all scholarships based on the country's racial ratio.

One could easily forgive the statement if it had come from an ordinary person with very little education but to come from some one who is a Professor and supposedly a personage of high academic excellence only serves to reflect the quality and character of our academicians who had perhaps for a long time benfitted from a racial quota system based mainly on race rather than merit.

Because of this flawed method of allocating scholarships to undeserving students based on racial quotas our standard of tertiary education has degenerated to a sub-standard level. Students graduating from such a flawed system are unemployable and in the long run is a burden to society.

Tertiary education cannot be considered as a right that must be freely given on the basis of race but in this age of globalisation, scholarships should only be given strictly on the basis of merit and nothing else. Scholarships cannot be viewed as a charitable gesture given merely to appease pro malay agenda. The ramification of simply giving scholarships other than based on the criteria of merit will create a pool of graduates which are substandard and unemployable.In the long run this pool of undergraduates will only be a burden to society and to the country.

It is inconceivable that a person of Professor Kamarudin Kachar background should opine that racial quotas should form the basis of selecting candidates for scholarships.Professor Kamarudin certainly must have profited from such a selection process and that explains his earnest endeavour to propagate the racial quotas selection meth