Well, that’s what the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) said to the Public Services Department (PSD) last saturday when faced with the disappointing results of the appeals stage of the JPA scholarship selections.

It seems that only five out of 143 appealing students in the state were provided JPA scholarships after their appeals. And 64 out of these 143 students actually scored straight A1s.

As a result, the SUPP is questioning whether PSD is actually adhering to the selection criteria they announced earlier, because if it was, there should not be this many top scorers not getting JPA scholarships. After all, according to the Public Services Department, weightage of academic merit stands at 65% this year.

Personally, I support the pleas of SUPP politicians. It is high time the PSD actually published the names and academic results of the students that do get JPA scholarships. It’s only 1,300 names after all.

[News via Bernama]