According to Kosantepheap Daily newspaper, there are 3260 students who passed high school this year got university fee scholarship to study in various universities in Cambodia. There are 11 public universities and one private university that provided the scholarship.
The way to select the scholarship based on some criteria such as for best students (60%), girls priorities (15%), poor students (15%) and very far from the city (10%).
Around the way to use for this selection, the minister of Ministry of Education said, we use computer program to manage and we need some criteria required by each university. The selection is fair and everyone glad to the selection than selection by exam. "Exam can be good only for the best students but not poor students or girls priorities..."
Personally, I was in the first start of suck kind of this selection, I felt it was not fair enough but it's better than exam because most or sometimes, the best students couldn't pass well to the state university that's because of the corruption during/after the entrant university exam. But more better if the high school exam is fair enough (no corruption during exam) so that the selection criteria for best students would be fair.
Even thought, the Ministry of Education provides the training to various teachers to explain to the student about this selection but the information is not really spread enough to them, some students I met said: "They were not clear enough about the university selection". They said they didn't understand about the Major priority because some institutes need to apply the exam before give the scholarship so they though, the priority will not apply. Example if they put 1st priority to Medicine and 2nd is Engineer... and because of Engineer need to take exam, so they though, if they are good, would get Engineer scholarship before the Medicine scholarship because of Medicine doesn't have any exam.
But as students we must think and consider all our choices different way and should get more information before any decision. Ask to the teachers about the way we understand first.
Source: Kohsantepheap Daily Newspaper, Metrey's expression
