In response to disgruntled high achievers who had their application for PSD scholarships under its Foreign Degree Programme rejected recently, the PSD Director-General Tan Sri Ismail Adam in an e-mail interview with Sunday Star said that they can’t actually offer to al but limited to 2,000 for overseas scholarship and another 10,000 for local.

This means irrespective of our straight As you still have to compete with other candidates especially those deserving ones.

Ismail, however, stressed that scholarships are a privilege provided by the government rather than a right, highlighting how the growing number of students obtaining straight As in their SPM over the years has made it tougher for the Government to select deserving recipients for PSD scholarships.

He also denied the allegations saying 1,100 scholarships for overseas study went to bumiputras and 900 to non-bumiputras this year.

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