However, some in UMNO considered meritocracy too harsh on rural Malay students, disadvantaging them compared to their urban counterparts, and called for the restoration of quotas to avoid an "uneven playing field".
Students with disadvantages struggled as well.
Thus questions arise about whether male social work students experience disadvantages during the course of their studies.
The reforms would allow more schools to select students, thus disadvantaging the poorer and dimmer among them, they claim.
Last week, a key congressional panel heard proposals to retain the "best and brightest" foreign students without disadvantaging U.S. workers.
This applies to learning web sites and materials that must now undergo "reasonable adjustments", in order not to disadvantage students with learning disabilities as well as non-disabled students.
It does nothing to hurt or disadvantage students; in fact, there's specific language to grandfather in current students attending these institutions.
This would disadvantage students who thrive within the HBCU environment, which would only be counterproductive.
In addition, Internet access solely at institutions can put students at a disadvantage.
