No more 'quota system' for state-owned universities, says Sarawak minister

SIBU: Admission into five state-owned universities in Sarawak will be based solely on meritocracy to pick the best of the best, says state Deputy Minister of Education, Innovation and Talent Development Datuk Dr Annuar Rapaee.

"Students need to know that enrolment for these universities is no longer based on a quota system. In other words, it's based on meritocracy," said Dr Annuar at the Sarawak Career and Training Fair (SCaT) 2024 on Saturday (Nov 2)

He said that with a system of meritocracy, students have to compete for places.

"Students must realise the importance of competition in order to pursue their studies in university," he added.

The five universities are Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Curtin University Malaysia, University of Technology Sarawak, i-CATS University College, and Centre for Technology Excellence Sarawak (Centexs).

According to Dr Annuar, for Sarawak to advance towards becoming a developed state, meritocracy is the "only way to train talents and pick the best of the best among our students."

To ensure rural students can gain admission to these universities, he said the Sarawak government is upgrading their facilities, which includes spending RM15mil yearly to provide free tuition for Form 3 and Form 5 students.

Dr Annuar was representing minister Datuk Seri Roland Sagah Wee Inn at the function.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2024...arawak-minister

Only S&S can do this.

Majulah Sarawak!

Aren’t those private uni? . Start with UMS then we talk

This will largely benefited their city folks. And if those unis accept admission from outside Sarawak, even less Sarawakian can be admitted 😬

Congrats!
Org Asli kid did not do well in school won't have chance to enter university.
Rich kids got lots of tuition can enjoy state university

Rich gets rich, poor gets tax and debt.

Meanwhile Perlis is busy with Loh's children conversion issue

At first I wanna say baca boleh, percaya jangan

Thn I saw the word sarawak

But meritocracy maa. Tree people can stay in trees or get in IPTA.

Even their state doesn’t like them.

Sarawak would be UNIMAS

Why Sarawak untrustworthy?

Good thing is talents will get university education.
But to blame tree people for living in tree then when they get subsidy, then you dont complaint bcos rich kids already got subsidized uni edu.

Problem is there are talents among tree people but they might not necessarily get the right early education. Conversely, there are dumbfuck rich kids with lots of supports from early age. Which one will win meritocracy?

Now here’s the kicker: those dumbfuck rich kids will even get free tertiary education! Lulz

https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2024/07/...arawakians-2026

This is what advanced nations are doing. If we slow down the kids that did well just because want to wait for slower kids, then our country will be doom. Other countries will catch up and we all remain poor. End up export university graduate to do unskilled work like what happened to Pakistani and Bangladesh.

if rich kid is dumb then the scores will show as low, so how 'those dumbfuck rick kids will even get free tertiary education" ?

wow, i will go nekkid if this done the same in peninsular

I did not say to slow down talented kids, as you can verify in my 2nd comment.
My comment raise the thought of how about slow kids ?

Nons can plan n rely on S’wak univietsities

pls cover you small disgusting bebird in public.

You really shoulda stopped after the first 4 words.

You’ll be surprised how many dumbfucks are in the unis, because their academic achievements do not show as such. Rote learning at its best.

But yeah, my point is these rich kids with various supports will get free tertiary education as well as disadvantaged poor tree people. Meritocracy ftw!

True, this is what PMX said that a lot of people dont get it. T1 to T20 all cheapskate want their children to enroll into UM USM UKM by paying ciput, even use cable for scholarship. 100% free.

Those sarawak listed universities, no quotas also nvm

Acknowledge what you have said and experience.
Now he announce a reform into meritocracy system for Sarawak.
You don't agree with existing system but you don't support reform either?

better do it 1st before malays there become the majority in sarawak and become like malaya

Money being songlap while the people remains poor after 60 years of tongkat + mismanagement by incompetent leaders, so let's continue with that til the country collapse n rot. Meanwhile SG practices meritocracy n prosper to become one of the richest DEVELOPED country.

If they can't do well in school, what can they achieve in university?

Meritocracy has its benefit, to retain talents based on merits, which I support.
But if gov't is not inclusive to provide edu for slow learners then wealthgap will widen.

Hopefully Sarawak will live up to this promise of reform and not let slow learners drop out, maybe slow could be introduced into TVET.

To ensure rural students can gain admission to these universities, he said the Sarawak government is upgrading their facilities, which includes spending RM15mil yearly to provide free tuition for Form 3 and Form 5 students.

lulz... kasi tution only then expect these disadvantaged studens to compete with the well to do urban kids who well feed.

bagus lah ini serawak gomen. banyak bagus

https://www.astroawani.com/berita-malaysia/...elantara-269077

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This post has been edited by JimbeamofNRT: Nov 2 2024, 03:27 PM

U see early education in SG. Now compare it with Sarawak or even Malaysia.

songlap is corruption which must be addressed.
meritocracy has its benefits, which I support, see "Congrats"
I raise the query, what about slow learners, bcos they will be left out in meritocrary.

TVET in tertiary education?
Pls do more reading, don't everything also ask me. I critic capitalism to raise awareness. In a democracy, you also have a voice. Hope you will have an educated voice.

If "dumbfuck rich kid" gets 7A1s, then is he still dumb?

Here’s the thing: the meritocracy part is good. But it has to focus on equity rather than equality.

Rafizi said something about this a while back. He said it’s not fair to compare his child studying in one of the best public schools in Putrajaya with a poor child in rural area.

Sarawak govt has to acknowledge that the rich-poor gap in the state is quite large. To have a perfectly level playing field is impossible, but working towards equity will mean giving a bit of leeway towards disadvantaged poor students.

Then that is a separate matter. These are universities, no?

If you want to say that there should be more vocational institutions for those who don't make the cut, then I agree with you.

But let's not mix up 2 different matters just for the sake of arguing online.

GPS know they will be doomed if they don't do that.

SG got Lubok Antu?

Can set up vocational or skill learning for those who fail to enter unis. They are still needed in any developed society.

What kind of leeway and how much?

To blanket say all rural kids cannot succeed academically is also wrong.

You’d be surprised how many people get 7A1s and more and still dumb as rock. Tuitionssss and soalan bocor help a lot

forcing 'slow learners' into uni and let them grad with degrees even when we know they are sub par only destroy the qualification's credibility. they are doing this exact same practise somewhere and whenever we saw resume from that uni, we just toss it into the bin

u wan that?

Because if this is done at Semenanjung, all Hell will break loose.

What kind of leeway and how much are questions the Sarawak govt has to answer.

I didn’t say all rural kids cannot succeed. They face significantly more challenges and have to put huge effort and commitment to be at the same footing as urban rich kids.

Agree.

Yes on vocational.

The 2 matters are in the same ecosystem, including 3R. It is necessary to include economic model bcos edu will take a generation to see effect, and democratic gov't only has 4 years, and in the event that edu model was unsuccessful, then new set of problems arise. So capitalism economic model is where T1 or T15 profits from B85. 67 year majority did not talk about economy, today even god can help us as we see B40 turn into B85.

Are those the exceptions or are those the norm?

You want to cherry pick those rare anecdotal stories, then how also we can argue till the cows come home.

Then how else to objectively benchmark who is smart or dumb, and whether they deserve a place in university?

if we know they are slow learners, why force them into STEM university, instead of TVET stream?

Yes, but the article talks about admission to the 5 state owned universities. It doesn't talk about TVET alternatives, so I cannot assume that nothing is being done on that as well.

They are hedging in case PAS becomes the Gov soon...Sarawak will be fucked.

the point is, do not put unqualified ppl into uni. that will only destroy the credibility of your education

create other streams of learning channels that will benefit them

not everyone need to have a degree to contribute to society

and don't pretend all is dandy and fine when it's not. that's what i'm saying

PRIVATE STATE OWN universities. Meaning they are not university under the Federal government jurisdiction.

Sarawak government does not have authority over federal government institution of learning.

Remember the state had to beg for federal government to improve dilapidated schools that look that they will collapse anytime? Got money also cannot do anything!

soviet sarawak

Let me rephrase it this way.

Which one is smarter and more deserving of a place in uni: a rich kid studying in aircond all day with tuitions on weekends or a poor kid in rural area who has to walk many miles to school in jungle, crossing river, studying in a semi-collapsed wooden school? Both got 7A1s.

This post has been edited by KineticKill: Nov 2 2024, 03:45 PM

Kesian true bumi lose tongkatsu

What if the rich kid scores 3As, the poor kid scores 7A1s but the poor kid cannot enter u but the rich kid can, because of quota system?

Malaya - We don’t do that here.gif

This post has been edited by msacras: Nov 2 2024, 03:50 PM

I didn’t even get into that yet😅 but yeah, correct also.

The other side of the equation is also true. Is the poor kid who had to face those challenges and got 3A less deserving to get into uni than the rich kids with all the advantages who got 7A1?

This post has been edited by KineticKill: Nov 2 2024, 03:51 PM

Democracy gives citizen the power to vote and voice, so I hope you dont let new drag you by the nose, instead voice out good ideas. Cheers!

I did not say you are wrong, merely I explained another perpective. Good that you have such view. But why did you not tell this to your adun?

You have your point, but you are assuming only bumi students are poor and require quota to give them a leg up. Many non bumis are also too poor to enrol in private tertiary institutions if they can't enrol in public u.

Ask yourself: with quota in place, how many rural bumis still miss out on tertiary education? Using your reasoning (quota helps rural poor bumi), we should expect many rural poor bumi to be studying in university, kan? Is this the reality, especially among bumi orang Asli?

kalau west malaysia do it
later someone gonna waive japanese sword and shouting why kecoh earth prince special right

Pls be PM

BRING GPS to semenanjung for election fight.. i support

Then wouldn't it be fine if the quota was based on family income instead of race?

That's where scholarships and educational grants come in. You want to set a minimum standard for entry.

wow wow wow i cant believe i am reading this.

All this while the quota based in Malaysia's public uni was good

Yup, no quota?
In reality only Sarawakian can be admitted, no?

Unless they are like Singapore offering the best of best from ASEAN!

I would love to see Sarawak succeed. With the riches it has it can prosper n benefit its people. Most important is the leaders must be clean n fair. Swk needs strong partners from advanced countries not WM. Expand into Green energy, modern agriculture, ecotourism. Spend n develop the remote disadvantaged areas with hydro+solar+wind energy, clean water, satellite comm, online learning. Set up more TVETs for those required expertise.

At least they don't use degrading terms like "tree-people" like yourself, give you unlimited education also no use.


Education, regardless meritocracy or not, should be made available to everyone.

It's a basic human rights. If they are really not achieving, what makes you think that they are eligible for university?

It states FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL, they did not say FREE EDUCATION COMPULSORY ENROLLMENT FOR ALL, there's a difference.


Provide education for slow learners is entirely okay, if the achievers are prioritized as per the meritocracy. If after priority still got space, why not?


Your opinion, heavily plagued with assumptions. Seems that education too, has failed you.

I too, can assume that you are just another keyboard warrior that have so much opinion on what others do, but does not contribute significantly towards your own local community.

Also while at it I might also add, enjoying aircond and does not know the hardships of walking through jungle and crossing river just to get education and then - get labelled by some forumer as "tree people" or even "dumb fuck".

It's going to be even more quota now. Why?

Non nons get high GPA through their kanak2 level matrix exam

Everyone else gets GPA from stpm

Non nons won't level the playing field for you

This post has been edited by buysellaccount: Nov 2 2024, 04:11 PM

erm to be fair, rich get taxed more, poor got bantuan with less tax.

Actually there's still Uitm for those orang asli or iban or bidayuh.
Where meritocracy can parking tepi.
Janji you're bumi.

let just say bumi are not equal

It's not about tuition. It's the upbringing whether they want to study or how the parents encourage / push them. Do you know many kids go tuition results are just like crap? Parents sometimes send to tuition to be like a daycare centre. Dont use old excuse to justify race base entry. If really want to help the poor, then provide them the tools to excel. Not feed them.

Well done Sarawak!

Ya i get what u mean. 1st and 2nd class bumi.
But still, there's still uitm for them if they fail to masuk the five so called state uni by meritocracy.

Based on meritocracy, both equally deserve a spot. You cannot punish the urban kid for being born in that family, and vice versa.

That's meritocracy.

Like I said, don't lari tajuk la... what has the ori article have to do with democracy la, power to vote and voice la, etc.

Stick to the topic so everyone can debate our opinions objectively.

Sorry only Swak can.
Sabah cant even grow some ball to go against federal

Hence I mentioned earlier about equity vs equality.

I didn’t say anything about bumi or non. How’d you came up with that? Are you that tertindas until you conjure up stuff in your own mind?

Seriously, you wrote that long without any substance? Impressive.

You do know student intake in university is not unlimited?

Hence I said which one is more deserving. Because these kids are not equal even when their results are.

Thank you for proving my point.

Assumptions.

Meritocracy is exactly what it means.

If both score exactly the same, then will examine co-curricular achievements, sporting contributions.

Again, you've never been in the giving end of education.

Hence, assumption and talk cucks here only.

Abang what you tokkok.
Not private uni kah?

It's owned by the sarawak state goverment.

yes. state-owned also. it is private.
they still charge students full-unsubsidized tuition fees, unless like he said give out scholarship by meritocracy

GPS should contest in Malaya.

Sounds great.

But the fees are like IPTA or not?

When does it start? 2050?

Yea.. then maybe they can swing chinese vote and dap will gegar a little bit liao.

Meritocracy, he said.

But sure got daddy kasi, kroni kasi at the back, amirite?

Public unis dah stop race-based quota in 2007. Please get up to date with the programme.

All of them back by gomen one don't ya know?

It's expensive but starting 2026 will be free for Stem courses thats why they plan this. Imagine you decide select people to go into these uni n state government paying the fee. It will trigger shit storm. Also those not so good but rich pipuls will be at disvantaged.
Those from B40 are taken care off with the Sarawak government international secondary schools on Cambridge syllabus. Mostly boarding school students. They have small numbers of M n T students as well.

It's not "backed by. It's "owned by" state government.

Lolol. I don't know y this article appearing in The Star but not the major dailies in Sarawak like Sarawak Tribune n TheBorneoPost. So I will wait for the reports from Sarawak papers.

So you would punish the person because he was born in an urban family?

You think Sarawak bumi will go mara uni if they can get into curtin or swinburne with internationally recognized programs n for free??

Read the person i reply to.
He's saying that orang asli at disadvantage because of meritocracy bla bla and bla.
Hence my reply. At the very least they still have uitm.