ZUL’S SPACE

It seems that certain people are wasting their annual budget by giving away stashes of cash to students graduating with top honours. Recently the Negeri Sembilan government decided to give away RM25,000 for those graduates who scored first class honours in their degrees.

Off course, that is a generous rewards but in my own opinion, those people don’t reserve rewards in the form of too much cash. It will be good for the state government to help those students paying off their study loans/or convert the study loans to scholarship. They can also help those graduates by placing them in government agencies or in the private sector without having to spend too much time writing applications so that the graduates can better prepare for the real world that requires much much more than academic credentials.

This advice comes from someone who spend many years in the recruitment involving fresh graduates and often found himself disappointed with the quality of the first class graduates. Often, those average achievers with active involvement in extra curricular activities get the job and impress the employers instead of those first class degree holders.

They should remember that first class honors is just a scroll and it does not guarantee them success in the working world and life in general. There’s more to it than achieving top academic degrees.

They will eventually realize that giving away money to them will bring more disadvantages rather than advantages. Unless, those people use the money to run his/her business rather than entering the job market hoping for a high salary at par with the academic achievements. That obviously will not happen for as long as the quality of the education is still questionable.

Let’s not put the citizens money to waste. I hope they will realize their mistake soon.