Recently I received a mail from a friend which depicts how our top SPM Malaysian student fared in their University examinations overseas! Nur Amalina Che Bakri sponsored by Bank Negara Malaysia to do A-levels at the Cheltenham Ladies College and study medicine in the United Kingdom failed her second year medical study at the University of Edinburgh. What went wrong?
While passing and failing examination is part and parcel of a student’s life, yet this case is particularly alarming, as this student is supposed to be top echelon. I am not sure if this is an isolated case as I hear many among the JPA's scholars have failed either in their first year or the second year or eventually unable to complete their studies and return home! What possibly could be the reason? Is it because of their command of the English language or is that our school system do not produce quality students?
If the students who scores a number of distinctions (A's in Malaysia) in a public exam shoud be able to cope with the tertiary education anywhere in the world considering that they are top notch students from Malaysia. If Malaysia continues to embark on projects of the tallest and the biggest or just focus on plain numeric superiority instead of to challenge the students to think, provoke them to create their own opinions, there can never be an international leader in any field or industry emanating from Malaysia. If the present system could not produce one in the last 20 years I am not sure if it ever in the next 100 years? I doubt the present Minister or the Government have the political will to bring this change! Waste of public funds and by the way we don’t hear of Singapore scholars failing in their studies overseas. Bikin malu sama nama Malaysia! Satu lagi project BN!
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