MOHD SYAFIQ MOHAMAD FADELIMOHD SYAFIQ MOHAMAD FADELI

ZAISMA FIRDANI ISMAILZAISMA FIRDANI ISMAIL

MOHD ZAKRIE SAFWAN T.MOHD ZAKRIE SAFWAN T.

Quality of Bumiputera Students

ACADEMIC

• Meritocracies system (since 2002) : Boosted Bumiputera students for 1 – 2 years.

• Dominated universities• 2002 & 2003: 68% bumiputera students went to

universities. • 2010: 20% went to universities• Bumiputera students are weak in academic,

need to be boosted time by time (competition and scholarships)

• Academic & Co-curriculum: Cannot balance.

• Eg: Prefects, clubs, sports.

• Rare multi-talented students.

• Safe zone: Do not work hard. Comfortable being common.

DISCIPLINE

• High discipline problems.

• Eg: Absence, smoking, ‘rempit’, drugs, sexually abuse, appereance, vandalism, gangsterism.

• Related to social background.– Socio economic– Religious background– Peer influences

Family problem

Peer influences

Discipline problems

Bumiputera students’ attitudes

• Bumiputra students’ attitudes can be divided into two groups which are positive and negative attitude.

• To analyze and classify their attitudes, we might become quite stereotyping.

• Based on our observation, research and some informal interviews, we have found out that bumiputra students’ have failed to be good example for other races because of their negative attitudes.

Before we look the list of negative attitudes, let us look at what are their

positive attitudes…

1. Kind and sweet

2. Caring and understanding

3. Love to dream and work for it.

4. They are good if we not compare them to other races in Malaysia.

5. Clever

However……

1. LAZY

• Do not want to work hard.– No quality in their works compared to other races.

• Not willing to make an effort.– Always love to be feed. If not, they do nothing.

• Always depend on other people’s help.– not able to become more independent.

• Love to REST and ENJOY.• Do work after some enforcement.

– “Macam pahat. Diketuk baru bekerja”

2. GREED

• They want to achieve so many things in one time, but at last, they achieve nothing.

• In terms of money, they want to be millionaire through short way, but they don’t even consider the way of achieving it.

• They easily influent by new things from outside such as fashion. They just want to become ALL without thinking much.

3. INGRATITUDE

• They have the specialty as Bumiputera but they don’t use it wisely.– E.g. scholarship.– Merit system

• They have numerous opportunities as Bumiputera but they just ignore them.

4. …NOT CLEVER ENOUGH

• They are easily distracted until they don’t realize about their responsibility etc.– LOVE– MONEY– ENTERTAINMENT– WRONG PERSPECTIVE AND UNDERSTANDING– USELESS THINGS SUCH AS GENGSTERISM,

ILLEGAL RACING ETC

• Ignorant– Ignore the rules, advises and many more.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 10 (Bernama) -- Malay students lag in academic achievements behind students of other races because they do not work hard and do not pay full attention to their studies, former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.

He said Malay students did not show interest in their studies.

Citing an example, he said many Malay students did not do their homework and instead spent their time loitering at shopping complexes after classes without the knowledge of their parents.

"It is no wonder that this type of students did not achieve success in their studies," he said when addressing about 1,000 students of Sekolah Alam Shah who took part in an assembly in conjunction with Patriotism Month Celebration 2005 here Wednesday.

Also present were Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.

Malaysia Book Of Records Sdn Bhd presented an award to the students for creating the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the country.

Dr Mahathir said Malay students could emulate the learning system of non-Malay students and work harder to achieve success.

"We will not succeed if our learning system is not right," he said.

-- BERNAMA

5. LACK OF…• …SKILLS

– Technology (computerized education)– Communication (in terms of language)

• …MOTIVATION– Self-learning (interest in learning)– Reading habit– Co-curriculum

• …Exposure– Skills and technology– Career and high education

Graduate Employment

Facts and Figures

Gleaned from a parliamentary response provided to PKR Member of Parliament, William Leong in 2009:

2004 -4,594 unemployed graduates of whom 163 were Chinese, 207 were Indians and 4,060 were Malays;

2005 -2,413 unemployed graduates of whom 31 were Chinese, 70 were Indians and 2,186 were Malays;

2006 -56,750 unemployed graduates of whom 1,110 were Chinese, 1,346 were Indians and 50,594 were Malays.

2007 - 56,322 unemployed graduates of whom 1,348 were Chinese, 1,401 were Indians and 49,075 were Malays.

2008 (as of June) - 47,910 unemployed graduates of whom 1,403 Chinese, 4,694 Indians and 41,813 were Malays.

March 2009 -Najib was talking about 60,000 unemployed graduates. This was more or less in line with the 57,701 graduate registrants on the Exchange in March 2009.

2010 -it was reported that 30,000 graduates could not find employment six months after graduation.

Analysis

• Malaysia’s world class education system appears to have produced unemployable graduates with 90% of them bumiputeras.

• Malaysia’s public sector historically performed the function of absorbing Bumiputera graduates but with a bloating public sector but with critical shortages in skilled areas (doctors, nurses, science and mathematics teachers) and Malaysia’s fiscal position reaching worrying stage, this option is now limited.

• An assumption that public universities are not being in tune with industry needs and/or producing graduates that  are not in demand.

• The key criteria employers look for in potential hires are a good command of English, a good attitude and a strong work ethic," says Suresh Thiru, vice-president of operations at online recruitment company JobStreet.com, which has 800,000 registered job seekers. "Many are unable to secure a good job because their English is poor," he adds. - From The New Straits Times 20 March 2005

Clarification

• As long as Bumiputra students are not adequately prepared by our primary and secondary education system to handle university-level work.

• Stop wasting our money on fanciful grand projects to help them in university or after they graduate.

• Graduates need to know the importance of academic performance, communication skills, work attitude and ethics.