No wonder every year non bumi needs to beg

Nearly 68% or 280 of the Public Service Department (PSD) scholarships under the 20% merit-category were awarded to non-bumiputras, only about 32% or 135 scholarships were awarded to bumiputra in the latest round of applications for the PSD's overseas degree programme.
Out of 2,100 PSD scholarships for students to study abroad this year, 20%, which is 417, was reserved for those with merit, regardless of race and religion, he said.Of the 417, almost 68% were given to non-bumiputras based on merit and only 32% for bumiputras, for year 2009, PSD offered 1,176 scholarships to Bumiputras and 924 to non-Bumiputras.
More than RM2.8bil in Public Service Department (PSD) sponsorships for overseas degree courses were given out between 2000 and 2008. The sum was given to 12,485 recipients where 9,160 were bumiputera and 3,325 were non-bumiputera.The breakdown of table showed that allocation for scholarships increased from RM109mil in year 2000 to RM659mil last year.
Similarly, the number of students also increased from 748 in year 2000 to 2,000 in 2008, while 598 Bumiputra students getting scholarships in 2000 and increased to 1,100 last year.For non-Bumiputra, number of students in year 2000 was 150 and had increased to 900 last year.
From Jan 14, 2009, the awarding criteria of the Overseas Degree Programme was divided into four categories, he said.The first was based on academic excellence without counting race and socio-economic backgrounds where selection was based on academic results (85%), co-curriculum (10%) and interviews (5%).The second category was based on current racial population ratios where one race's allocation would be divided to others if it was not used."Selection is also made based on academic excellence with at least A2 in all core and elective subjects."At the same time, the candidates were also selected based on their secondary school co-curriculum participation, families' socio-economic backgrounds and interviews," he said.The third category, he said, were for Sabah (5%) and Sarawakian (5%) bumiputra.The last category was given to socially disadvantaged students from rural areas with limited facilities and from low-income families.Nazri added that applicants in categories three and four also had to have at least A2s in all subjects relevant to their degree of choice, which made up 65% of the selection criteria.He said students under the programme were sent for first degrees in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Russie, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Egypt, Jordan, India and Indonesia.