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Tuesday April 12, 2011

RM8mil in scholarships to be given out via MCA-KLMUC tie-up

KUALA LUMPUR: MCA Youth has embarked on five years of collaboration with Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University College (KLMUC), which will see the college offering RM8mil worth of scholarships and financial assistance to needy Chinese students each year.

Youth chief Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong said the financial assistance would be given to students with average academic results, including those who scored less than five credits in SPM and a cumulative grade point average of less than three in the STPM.

“We will also give priority to students from poor or single-parent families,” he said during the cheque presentation ceremony here yesterday.

He said a selection committee had been set up to ensure that eligible students were chosen for the scholarships and financial assistance.

Dr Wee, who is also Deputy Education Minister, said the movement's education bureau had organised 34 counselling sessions for SPM and STPM school leavers, which had attracted 8,480 students and their parents.

“From these counselling sessions, we are also able to identify students who need financial aid,” he said.

Cosmopoint group president Datuk Idrus Mohd Satha said the college wanted to ensure that students with limited financial resources were given the opportunity to get quality higher education.

“We want to ensure that they are not being left out of the education system,” he said.

MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek, who witnessed the ceremony, said the party did not only give priority to top students but was also mindful of those with average academic results.

He said the MCA was looking into upgrading the status of Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman to that of a university college to ensure a higher quality of education.