This is what i used to hear from other people too. JPA and SPA tend to retain or choose those people which are under overseas scholarship compare to those taking local scholarship. So, how did u got released? mind sharing?

hmm... JPA is vry serious in enforcing their agreement now..but by forcing us to accept a job offer....not by giving us opportunity to go for the govt job interview of our choice....

damn it....i'm a local grad n my CGPA of 3.23 wasn't good enough to compete with each other to get the job i wanted in the govt sector (research or sciece officer) in order for me to quit the post as PTD (which was given freely but was forced to accept)

So what u mean is JPA just gave u a random job without looking at your qualification or field of study? If u don't accept the random job offer, what action shall be taken by them?

Well, the situation now is, 300+ of JPA graduates most of them are engineering and science graduates....some are oversea graduates

Accept the offer from JPA as diplomatic and administrative officer, without hving to go thru the interview, and most didn't even apply for tht post...declining the offer is not possible as it'd be regarded as refusing to serve the govt even not interested with the post.

haha ...they shud not wasting people expertise =_=.

Well, the govt's doing tht now.....

So if you refuse to serve they will force you to pay up a certain amount of money? This is the first time i heard about this which is totally unacceptable.

yup..RM 110k..which is 4 times the amount they sponsored me

exactly the same thing which is happening to my other cousin but she got an job offer which has something to do with her degree. She graduated with a law degree but after she report to JPA..she went to japan to do her masters. Now jpa is knocking at her door asking her to pay up if she refuse to serve.

really? cuz wat i heard is u can further ur study... as long as u take again another sponsorship under JPA ....

She also get offered as PTD????

She did her masters under a different scholarship. Some japanese government scholarship if i m not mistaken. She got offered a job as some kind of a lawyer in the government sector.

Some JPA scholarship will offer u a job after graduate n some are not...

Lawyer is ok what..still related to her study...
anyway, as far as I know, if she happened to get job offer while further her study, she could defer the contract...

by right, she suppose to inform JPA before further study, so that JPA can defer her employment..

Anyway, does the Japanese scholarship hve any bond ??

yup..all scholarships do have bonds. The last time when i talk to her, she told me that she might pay back JPA after finishing her masters as she is deferring her contract right now.

does it mean when u're waiting for them to call u for work they giv u allowance too??

from my point of view, JPA should implement a system where if those sponsored by government don't want to serve them after grads because of the job given not related to their field of studies. they can opt to buy their way out of the bond. let's say half the amount of what JPA pay for them and period of 15 years maybe. the benefits from my view if this type of system implemented consists of:

1. grads don't need to work in unrelated sector thus wasting their knowledge.

2. grads have more time to collect money slowly and pay back JPA. unlike 60days notice like what is used now.

3. 1/2 the amount paid will be like government help to the student. but grads still need to pay the other half because they're not serving the government.

4. instead of releasing them freely, charge them half and the money still can benefits others who need sponsorship.

Agree

it just like convertible scholarship u know that the amount that they sponsored us was 25k, while the amount they penalise us for refusing to serve is 100k. and we need to pay back within 60 days..

But I guess, for those graduates who choose not to serve with govt when called up for, and want to go for private company or GLC, they'll have to pay back to JPA fixed amount of money every month. BUT if they decide to serve in the public service or statutory bodies after some period of them, they can stop paying the money.

This post has been edited by AhGuan: Aug 28 2010, 04:14 AM