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Students’ online application for public varsity
tampered with
GOPENG: Three university hopefuls were shocked to
find their online applications to public
universities tampered with.The former SMK Seri Teja
students, who had just received their STPM results
on Thursday, had all their eight choices filled with
Islamic Studies.To make matters worse, they were
unable to amend the changes.
Chow Hon Mun, 21, said they could only make changes
to the details on the online application website
three times.
“I panicked when I could not make any changes and
told my teachers about it,” said Chow when met at
the Gopeng MCA service centre yesterday.
“My teachers then advised me to lodge a police
report,” he said, adding that his first choice was
engineering and that he had no intention of taking
up Islamic Studies.
Chow added that recently he and his two friends had
also received SMSes from an unidentified person who
admitted to making the changes to their
applications.
“I initially thought it was a prank but soon
realised the person was telling the truth,” he said,
adding that he was puzzled that the person had
managed to procure confidential information about
him and his two friends.
Gopeng MCA division chief Albert Chang said he would
refer the matter to Deputy Higher Education Minister
Dr Hou Kok Chung.
“We will help them gather all their result slips,
application forms and official school letters and
send the documents to Dr Hou through our education
bureau,” said Chang.
He urged all public university hopefuls to check
their online applications to ensure their forms were
not tampered with.
Petikan dari TheStar 14hb Mac 2009.
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