The MCA will continue to help students facing difficulty in getting matriculation scholarships, says president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat.
He said more non-bumiputras were applying for matriculation now although there was only a 10% allocation for them.
Ong added that the Public Service Department scholarship issue was not racial.
“It is rather the transparency and the criteria that many people are concerned about,” Ong said.
Citing an example, he said two Chinese students from the same class with almost similar background and curricular activities applied for a PSD scholarship but the student who did better did not get the scholarship.
“To classify it as a racial issue is not accurate. It is the criteria used in the selection process and it is not a racial quota,” he told reporters after chairing the party central committee meeting yesterday.
He said the MCA had received more than 1,000 appeal cases for scholarships and he had instructed the education bureau to follow up on the matter.
The Star
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