Sothi's suspended and the reasoning isn't convincing enough.
And what does his boss do? Keep mum.
Come on, this is his chance to salvage whatever's left of his pride. But does he do it? No…
Instead he goes and agrees that no one within the government should criticise their own policies and decisions. What a load of horsecrap.
As the All Thota Bhoopathy song goes…"Samy, enna samy?"
Sothi had a valid point and his suspension was based on a very petty issue. That's what the Dewan Rakyat is for isn't it? To voice your concerns.
Back to the standing issue.
How do you de-recognize a course unless they've changed their syllabus? The reason it was recognized in the first place tells you that the structure and content of Crimea's medical program is suited and in a way tailored for our future home doctors. And then suddenly it becomes otherwise?
Who are we kidding here?
Just because we're too lazy to address the root of the problem and rectify it, we become trigger happy and punish even the good students.
I'm not saying that all these students will definitely become world class doctors, no they wont. That’s because I know of students from the arts stream and did horrifyingly in their SPM, who are there pursuing the Indian dream. And it's a scary future to look forward to.
I'll tell you what's happening, the sad truth. Someone is not doing their job. Or someone is overdoing their job, whichever way you wanna look at it.
Here's the deal. All students going there would have to be approved by the government.
Based on their results? That's the question that needs to be answered.
It bloody well should be based on their results, not who knows who or for whatever else deciding factors.
It's starkingly obvious that the local government itself is the entry/exit point.
About that incompetent student I mentioned earlier, isn't it crystal clear who's to blame now?
Then we have the good students. Say one not-so-well-off ambituous kid with 2A's and 2B's for STPM, applied for medicine, but was offered Food Science instead (yes, it happens). What is he to do?
Appeal, you say. Doesn't work unless you know Someone. Notice the capital S? Yes, that someone has to be Godly.Or else, you can go on appealing to deaf ears and have your appeal passed around they way they do in the Poison Box game.
The only other thing he can do to realise his ambition is to look for more affordable options. And that'll be Russia and Ukraine.
How does the derecognition work for him now?
This country is experiencing a shortage of doctors,and we do not have enough reasonable-costing institutions to cater to the nation's health needs.
Then we go and allocate RM51.5 million on landscaping.
Don't put me under the ISA when I join the rest of the world and laugh at Malaysia after I'm done feeling angry that our taxpayer's money is thrown into the shredder.
True that Russia and Ukraine is swamped with Indians. That's because it's embedded in them that being a medical profesional is every Indian's calling.
It's not.
But people will go on wanting what they don't deserve, and thet's why we need a good system of control.
I want to be rich, but I can't go rob a bank now, can I?
With our 'leader' still in place, that tells you a lot about the Indian community, doesn't it?
To expect that to change, well…it'll take eons.
So, my suggestion is, work on what we can. Strengthen the entry/exit point with good values and morals.
Grant only the truly deserving and passionate ones with the healing touch.
That's that.
Moving on to the whole PTPTN mumbo jumbo. A professional circus is what it is.
PTPTN is broke and they borrowed RM2m from the EPF (our money again).
Now they're deciding to only give loans to students enrolled in critical courses.
My batch was the last to have our semester fees directly paid to the university and the balance banked into our accounts. Now, students have to pay the fees themselves after the full amount is in their accounts.
Isn't this a stupid thing to do?
PTPTN is already having a hard time tracing their defaulters.
What if a student doesn't pay his fees? Maybe he decides to be the 'anak mithali' and give the money to his family instead, or splurge on a mobile phone?
Now the university has to chase those who don't pay on time as well.
The old system worked just fine.
The other joke is that the Education Ministry is planning on setting up 2 governmental loan dispersing institutions.
Why?
They should just take over PTPTN since they have the funds.
The birth of those institutions will spell the same problems over and over until we have people with at least a quarter of a brain sitting upstairs.
We're run by fools. That's the hard truth.
Put me up there, and I'll work wonders for you.
