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One of many: This Malaysian Chinese got 9As for SPM, excelled in extracurriculars & still couldn’t get a scholarship from JPA​

Coconuts KL
Tue, 3 January 2023 at 5:37 am GMT·3-min read

It’s a known fact that Malaysia has been facing a severe brain drain for decades now. It is estimated that around 500,000 highly-skilled Malaysians are working abroad.
In a post on the r/Malaysia subreddit titled “Is it true that Malaysia purposely drains the brain drain…? Or there’s a rationale behind it“, local Redditors gathered to share their experiences – and also call people out – based on a TikTok video that has been trending recently.
TikTok user @jessica_sin shared quite lengthily about her experience of not being able to receive a scholarship from the Public Service Department (JPA) for overseas study, despite excelling in both academia and extracurricular activities during high school.

@jessica_sin My thoughts as a Malaysian hoping for a better Malaysia #malaysia #malaysian #fair #support #nodiscrimination #humanrights #systems #economy #education #business #fairness #freedomtofight #generalelection #ge15 #2022 #election #malaysiaboleh #malaysiatiktok #fy #fyp #foryou #foryoupage ♬ original sound – Jessica Sin

A JPA scholarship programme covers local preparatory studies until degree level in a government, government-linked or private institution based on the guidelines and conditions prepared by JPA.
For context, the scholarship also has a quota for each race like Bumiputera, Chinese and Indian. JPA prioritises giving Bumiputera more allocation.
In the video, Jessica lamented that she was unhappy with the racial discrimination in Malaysia, especially when it came to education and opportunities.
“Like for my SPM in 2010, I got 9A+ for all core subjects. I was very active in extracurricular activities, having held leadership roles, and also represented my school in various English and Math competitions.”
“But when I went to apply JPA scholarship from the Ministry of Education, they rejected my overseas scholarship application and I found out that Bumiputeras get overseas scholarships in developed countries for 4-5 years even when they only scored a few As,” she said.
“Now, I acknowledge Bumiputeras have special rights but that doesn’t mean you don’t recognise those of other races when they put in the effort,” she said.
She added that while Malaysia rejected her, universities in Australia and the United States offered her full scholarships without bond.
“And you wonder why so many talented Malaysians move abroad. Look at the state of the Malaysian economy, foreign investors pulling out, and RM is dropping to a low rate, especially against USD and SGD, talent is moving abroad and we are falling behind.”
“If we want our country to prosper and improve, we need to appreciate people that can contribute,” she said.
The human flight and brain drain index, for which data is available from 2007 to 2020, suggests the situation has been on the rise throughout the period.
Based on its surveys, in 2009 the World Bank reported a serious shortage of high technical skills in Malaysia, including among fresh graduates, thus reflecting serious problems within the education system. This dynamic continued well into 2015 and remains to this day.
Some Redditors reacted to the video and shared their own similar experiences while others speculated the reason behind Malaysia’s brain drain.

 

[mojito]

Any body can get 9As easily in msia.

 

[A Singaporean]

Any body can get 9As easily in msia. 

Except retard m&d.

 

[winners]

Didn't Anwar said that he's going to change all these and with no more discrimination? Give him a year and see how's the progress, or if his talk is also just hot airs?

 

[Hypocrite-The]

She can come singkieland n be the next Ah Hua or Ah Khor ...

 

[ginfreely]

That’s bs even if got scholarship will also come to Spore to work after getting overseas scholarship. Hey that’s what my ex colleague Malaysian Chinese husband got and did. Good excuse to blame brain drain on scholarship.

 

[ginfreely]

That’s bs even if got scholarship will also come to Spore to work after getting overseas scholarship. Hey that’s what my ex colleague Malaysian Chinese husband got and did. Good excuse to blame brain drain on scholarship.

Looks like msian government very kind gave Overseas scholarship to people with no bond or no jobs available when he returned. Who knows?

 

[ginfreely]

That’s bs even if got scholarship will also come to Spore to work after getting overseas scholarship. Hey that’s what my ex colleague Malaysian Chinese husband got and did. Good excuse to blame brain drain on scholarship.

To elaborate: my ex colleague Malaysian Chinese husband come to Spore to work and grab spouse with landed property parents. Another famous Malaysian woman influencer also did that isn’t it? The one in the news last year.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

What did she expect? Is her name Siti?

 

[syed putra]

That’s bs even if got scholarship will also come to Spore to work after getting overseas scholarship. Hey that’s what my ex colleague Malaysian Chinese husband got and did. Good excuse to blame brain drain on scholarship.

Thats true as many non bumis who got scholarship eventuslly absconded and work overseas.
One ended up in nasa and bad mouth the racist malay people when she got scholarship to study in the US.
She never even mentioned she got scholarship from jiu hu gomen.

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Muar-born woman now makes space probes for Nasa​

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Florence Tan paid tribute to her frugal parents for being where she is now, saying they understood that education was the way to a better life for everyone.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysian-born Florence Tan wanted to be a teacher but watching reruns of Star Trek changed her destiny and has taken her to great heights in the US.
She is now the chair of the Small Spacecraft Coordination Group (SSCG) at Nasa headquarters.

Tan is also the deputy chief technologist for the agency’s science mission directorate.
In her role, she leads the SSCG to coordinate and develop Nasa’s strategy and vision for small spacecraft in science, exploration missions, and technology activities, among others.



Much of her work is now related to spacecraft headed for Mars.

Among her achievements were working for the Mars Science Laboratory Sample Analysis, Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer.
Hailing from a fishing village in Muar, Johor, Tan left Malaysia when she was 18 after finishing her secondary education at the Kuantan Mara Junior Science College.
She went on to study at the Western Michigan University in the US, then transferred to the University of Maryland a year later, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering.

“I then got a master’s in electrical engineering and an MBA from Johns Hopkins,” she said in an in-house Nasa interview.

“I wanted to be a teacher. I did not have very many role models. My parents were teachers and they encouraged me to be more successful than they were, so I wanted to be a professor.
“Later, after I watched a few reruns of Star Trek, I decided I wanted to be an aerospace or electrical engineer.”
Tan, who is a US citizen now and lives with her husband and two college-going children, said her story of how she grew up was very typical of her Malaysian contemporaries.
She said her parents saved money every way they could, with her father having to use a worn pair of shoes. He kept walking in them even though they had holes.
“I watched him put in pieces of cardboard to cover the holes in the soles. Years later, when I earned my first paycheck, I bought him a pair of Christian Dior shoes from the US and sent them to Malaysia,” she recalled.
Paying tribute to her parents for being where she is, Tan said they understood that education was the way to a better life for everyone, adding that ever since she was little, her parents had said they had enough money only to educate two of their four children.
“Their plan was that the first two children, my sister and I, would go to school, graduate and then get jobs to help pay for my two younger brothers to also go to college.
“When I graduated, my friends got cars. I pooled my funds with those of my family so that my two brothers could go to college. All of us have done well, thanks to our parents.”
When asked how she could handle the pressure of being in charge of many important parts of major projects while in her 20s, Tan said she was petrified at first, fearing that someone would find out that she “did not know enough”.
“The way I handled it was that I kept testing everything. I kept simulating different conditions, asking myself how each particular part of the hardware and software could possibly fail.
“I kept working, learned to work in a team and became more confident over time.
“Every young engineer eventually learns that success and experience build confidence.”
Tan, who still speaks Malay well, said respecting colleagues, communicating well and being honest are qualities that had helped her a great deal in achieving success.
According to a post in the Universiti Malaysia Perlis’ Facebook page, Tan will be in Kuala Lumpur in July for a conference and later will be giving a talk at the university.

 

[ginfreely]

Thats true as many non bumis who got scholarship eventuslly absconded and work overseas.
One ended up in nasa and bad mouth the racist malay people when she got scholarship to study in the US.
She never even mentioned she got scholarship from jiu hu gomen.

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Muar-born woman now makes space probes for Nasa​

K. Parkaran
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May 1, 2022 2:14 PM
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Florence Tan paid tribute to her frugal parents for being where she is now, saying they understood that education was the way to a better life for everyone.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysian-born Florence Tan wanted to be a teacher but watching reruns of Star Trek changed her destiny and has taken her to great heights in the US.
She is now the chair of the Small Spacecraft Coordination Group (SSCG) at Nasa headquarters.

Tan is also the deputy chief technologist for the agency’s science mission directorate.
In her role, she leads the SSCG to coordinate and develop Nasa’s strategy and vision for small spacecraft in science, exploration missions, and technology activities, among others.



Much of her work is now related to spacecraft headed for Mars.

Among her achievements were working for the Mars Science Laboratory Sample Analysis, Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer.
Hailing from a fishing village in Muar, Johor, Tan left Malaysia when she was 18 after finishing her secondary education at the Kuantan Mara Junior Science College.
She went on to study at the Western Michigan University in the US, then transferred to the University of Maryland a year later, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering.

“I then got a master’s in electrical engineering and an MBA from Johns Hopkins,” she said in an in-house Nasa interview.

“I wanted to be a teacher. I did not have very many role models. My parents were teachers and they encouraged me to be more successful than they were, so I wanted to be a professor.
“Later, after I watched a few reruns of Star Trek, I decided I wanted to be an aerospace or electrical engineer.”
Tan, who is a US citizen now and lives with her husband and two college-going children, said her story of how she grew up was very typical of her Malaysian contemporaries.
She said her parents saved money every way they could, with her father having to use a worn pair of shoes. He kept walking in them even though they had holes.
“I watched him put in pieces of cardboard to cover the holes in the soles. Years later, when I earned my first paycheck, I bought him a pair of Christian Dior shoes from the US and sent them to Malaysia,” she recalled.
Paying tribute to her parents for being where she is, Tan said they understood that education was the way to a better life for everyone, adding that ever since she was little, her parents had said they had enough money only to educate two of their four children.
“Their plan was that the first two children, my sister and I, would go to school, graduate and then get jobs to help pay for my two younger brothers to also go to college.
“When I graduated, my friends got cars. I pooled my funds with those of my family so that my two brothers could go to college. All of us have done well, thanks to our parents.”
When asked how she could handle the pressure of being in charge of many important parts of major projects while in her 20s, Tan said she was petrified at first, fearing that someone would find out that she “did not know enough”.
“The way I handled it was that I kept testing everything. I kept simulating different conditions, asking myself how each particular part of the hardware and software could possibly fail.
“I kept working, learned to work in a team and became more confident over time.
“Every young engineer eventually learns that success and experience build confidence.”
Tan, who still speaks Malay well, said respecting colleagues, communicating well and being honest are qualities that had helped her a great deal in achieving success.
According to a post in the Universiti Malaysia Perlis’ Facebook page, Tan will be in Kuala Lumpur in July for a conference and later will be giving a talk at the university.

Are these non bumi scholarship holders given good jobs in the government? If no good prospects also no use, these scholarship holders will of course all leave eventually. Must give not just good scholarships but good prospects too to stem the brain drain.

 

[syed putra]

Are these non bumi scholarship holders given good jobs in the government? If no good prospects also no use, these scholarship holders will of course all leave eventually. Must give not just good scholarships but good prospects too to stem the brain drain.

There are no good jobs in the gomen. Most are just sitting doing nothing.

 

[ginfreely]

There are no good jobs in the gomen. Most are just sitting doing nothing.

No wonder nobody do my good tax refund. Everyone disappeared even when no brain drain.

 

[winnipegjets]

AStar scholarship worth $1 million is available to her. We need more Mudlanders to stop the Ahnehnisation of Sinkapore.

 

[ginfreely]

AStar scholarship worth $1 million is available to her. We need more Mudlanders to stop the Ahnehnisation of Sinkapore.

Ya Malaysians like her are so lucky to have so many options as foreigners in Singapore. What’s there to complain?

 

[ginfreely]

Thats true as many non bumis who got scholarship eventuslly absconded and work overseas.

This reminds me many Malaysians are known to abscond even on their government study loan, what more on scholarships?

 

[JohnTan]

Any body can get 9As easily in msia.

muud bumis need to get only 3-4 As to get the same scholarship, but with a faster promotion track.

 

[ginfreely]

This reminds me many Malaysians are known to abscond even on their government study loan, what more on scholarships?

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[ginfreely]

Ya Malaysians like her are so lucky to have so many options as foreigners in Singapore. What’s there to complain?

And even if she don’t qualify for government scholarships in mudland, she qualifies for PTPTN study loan as Malaysian citizen and many Malaysians don’t even repay their study loan according to Malaysian newspapers. That’s very sneaky to keep quiet on such valid option available to ALL Malaysian citizens while cry discrimination on scholarships.

 

[ginfreely]

And even if she don’t qualify for government scholarships in mudland, she qualifies for PTPTN study loan as Malaysian citizen and many Malaysians don’t even repay their study loan according to Malaysian newspapers. That’s very sneaky to keep quiet on such valid option available to ALL Malaysian citizens while cry discrimination on scholarships.

A loan that’s very low interest 1% or something like that and can be absconded - with “many Malaysians shirk their responsibilities” to repay PTPTN loan - isn’t it better than a crappy scholarship with bond?