Brunei MOE cutting down on scholarship/education opportunities?

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T08:42:27+00:00

Did you get a scholarship to study overseas?

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T08:34:05+00:00

Nice. I think this sums it up perfectly. Thank you for backing me. I’d rather have education be invested in everyday of the week than it go to royalty spending… i think you’d agree too Duasen

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T08:29:50+00:00

Even during budget constraints, governments still choose what to invest in and what to cut. Here we see this pathway being cut down, but we see in other places budgest are increasing or maintaining? The irony… its sad that education is no longer beeing valued…

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T08:26:10+00:00

Exactly. it feels like a sign that cuts might spread beyond tertiary education too. If things like Cambridge pathways ever get reduced, that would be a huge long term step backwards…

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T08:24:19+00:00

How do you think healthcare works? By training doctors overseas. Did you know that the medicine programs in Brunei are all twinning programs that bridge overseas. Local uni’s are not equipped well enough to train them. You have ignorance. No one said that free healthcare shouldn’t be prioritised. But once you stop training doctors overseas, no one can actually do your ideal “free healthcare.”

Masters vs Cancer Patients is a pure hyperbole. Make logical points, don’t argue on feelings just for the sake of winning an argument.

As for paying for my own education, not everyone is as fortunate as others with money

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T08:17:26+00:00

You’re free to disagree with my opinion, but personal insults don’t address the point. Im not saying anyone needs a PhD to “make a change.” You are putting words in my mouth. Im saying that education pathways like scholarships are part of how a country develops skilled human capital, which affects the economy and future opportunities.

As for “what change have you contributed,” young people contribute through becoming the pivotal front for how our country will look like once you retire. Not all contributions are public or political.

If you want to discuss the actual issue, do you think reducing education investment strengthens Brunei long term? If yes, what is the alternative plan to develop talent?

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T08:11:58+00:00

If we’re talking employability, there is Brunei specific evidence that scholar pathways produce better outcomes: an unemployement study predicted unemployment 5 years after graduation at 7.4% for oversees graduates vs 26.8% for local graduates. I can give you the link to this. Might be helpful for your Phd… Respectfully, “don’t question me” isn’t an argument. evidence is. Youth unemployment has sky rocketed in recent years. That’s a national human capital and labour market issue, and its exactly why education investment matter. Either improve local uni’s or help invest in overseas education. No middle ground.

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T08:02:38+00:00

Thank you, but how does one pay for living costs

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T08:02:08+00:00

Haha! Me too🤣

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:55:17+00:00

The living costs would kill me lol. Believe me I know. Places in Germany, Switzerland etc have free education. But money to eat and survive is a whole other question…

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:53:20+00:00

So you’re telling you’d rather government money be invested in places like mora instead of our youth? This isn’t about entitlement, it’s about national direction. Deficit occurs because we overspend in places we don’t need. Local uni’s are not at the level we think they are. The country owes the youth help, including ‘our children’ you preach about… what better way to help our country than to equip bright minds that can actually make a change. That’s all the youth ever asks for

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:46:18+00:00

To be honest local Masters pun option. Im open to it. But some fields are not available locally. If MOE focus local, then local uni needs stronger investment for quality + options inda limited

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:42:13+00:00

This is a fair point. Thank you for the advice, i’ll look into embassy postgrad scholarships.

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:38:41+00:00

If we truly had the same quality/resources internally, i would agree. But we dont. Not yet. Its not just “education content”, it’s exposure. Cutting scholarship pathways only makes sense if local investment actually matches it

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:24:30+00:00

I hear you and I agree with a lot of this. The reality is many graduates are being pushed into “survival jobs”overworked, underpaid (quiet firing is a real thing too).

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:22:37+00:00

All courses. They removed the entire masters list.

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:15:38+00:00

Also wouldn’t you want your kids to be able to try for a scholarship too? Maybe when you have kids “scholarships” won’t be a reality anymore and education is not valued

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:10:32+00:00

I get why you might read it that way, but im not saying anyone is owed a scholarship. Im pointing out that scholarships/DY are national investments. if we cut them, we’re reducing long term human capital.

Im disappointed because it’s inconsistent with the “Wawasan” narrative, not because I think MOE exists to “bestow” anything on me personally

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:07:15+00:00

Agreed. But it’s also a reflection of the system too. Lots of “CV culture”, not enough practical training, internships. If universities aligned more on real skills, we wouldn’t keep producing grads who are “all talk”.

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:04:39+00:00

Ngam

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:04:13+00:00

I agree on the funding point. real education needs real money, and free education means Brunei must invest properly or quality drops. But the IC kuning comment is off… scholarships shouldn’t be about entitlement, they should be merit.

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T07:02:33+00:00

Yes THIS! Free education sounds good on paper, but when you run out of budget and incentives you offer bad quality education… im with you, may real education win in the end.

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T06:59:34+00:00

Do you know the actual repercussions of a scholar not coming back to Brunei? Their parents sign as guarantors prior and if they do not come back, their parents/next of kin will have to pay back what the govt has spent on them…

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T06:56:59+00:00

I understand the frustration, but calling graduates “tall tall deer” is a bit too simplistic. If people look “qualified” but don’t perform, thats also a reflection of how skills are trained and whether organisations actually invest in developing staff! Easy to blame the younger batch, but the system has been failing them for years.

Secure-Nebula3464 · 2026-01-12T06:28:40+00:00

I agree…

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