tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post113108025475602017..comments2024-03-21T20:10:28.943+08:00Comments on EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA: The Art of Flattery @ Universiti MalayaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1131167455219951112005-11-05T13:10:00.000+08:002005-11-05T13:10:00.000+08:00Questions,1) Does the students actually know bad t...Questions,<BR/><BR/>1) Does the students actually know bad things are brewing in hand?<BR/><BR/>2) If they do know, were they too afraid to do anything or they are birds of feather flock together?<BR/><BR/>3) How politically powerful is this guy anyway? I mean in the academia he is high and mighty but with PTA around (where uni is not suppose to even have one) cant the parents do something about it? But in the real world he doesnt have any powers. Unless the parents themselves are with problems too.<BR/>At least conduct an independent investigation to put him on the spotlight.<BR/><BR/>4) If everybody wanted things to change, did anyone did petitions on issues like this? Or were those people treated unfairly and not even given a chance and then blackmailed?<BR/><BR/>Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1131160404968438542005-11-05T11:13:00.000+08:002005-11-05T11:13:00.000+08:00Dear readers,I will not be editing the above comme...Dear readers,<BR/><BR/>I will not be editing the above comment by anonymous, although it would appear that it contains many serious unproven and unsubstantiated allegations with regards to the UM VC.<BR/><BR/>Please read these type of comments with this knowledge in mind to put them in the right context. Not everything written by parties with criticisms are necessarily based on facts.<BR/><BR/>I would also appreciate it if readers do not use this forum to discuss our higher education policies to vent their personal frustrations which are often emotive and not backed by some form of evidence or facts.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for reading!<BR/><BR/>Tony PGolf Afflictedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16363347839543221577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1131157288830776122005-11-05T10:21:00.000+08:002005-11-05T10:21:00.000+08:00The whole UM academic community disliked Hashim Ya...The whole UM academic community disliked Hashim Yaacob from the day he was appointed. Some concerned person or persons set up a website to expose <BR/>him for what he is: a moron with an inflated ego. Please visit http://www.unimalaya.blogspot.com to see the abuses and excesses going on at UM. I was told by someone working in the Computer Centre that Hashim is spending thousands of taxpayer's ringgit trying to block the website and catch the person who set up the website. It was blocked for sometime but it is up again. I have pasted an apt description of Hashim Yaacob from the website below in case it is blocked again. After reading this, everyone will know who this egotistical maniac is. He is so afraid that the email will be used to expose him that, all messages even from academics are monitored and filtered before being sent out. Saddam was not deposed but alive and well in UM.<BR/><BR/>Son of a Rubber Tapper, a Leader of Destruction….<BR/><BR/>Hashim Yaacob was born to a Malay couple who earned their living by tapping rubber. The couple had high hopes for his son and indeed the boy made it good and became the Vice Chancellor of the top University in the land. The fairy tale ended there because the poor son of a rubber tapper, manipulated, orchestrated and back-stabbed many friends on the way to the position of his dream. He had hoped to be a medical doctor but ended up being a dentist because his HSC results were not good enough for him to enter a Medical School. Hashim Yaacob worked his way up from being a Head of Department, Deputy Dean, Dean, then Deputy Vice-Chancellor and finally Vice-Chancellor. Along the way, he had to face a disciplinary committee on charges of plagiarism and having an affair with a young female staff. Then the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Syed Hussein Al-Attas whom he despised took him on for daring to stand-up against Syed Hussein’s evil doings. At the same instance, Syed Hussein made him a hero although his Dental Faculty colleagues could smell what this other younger evil man had in store for them. True to his colours Hashim Yaacob turned out to be a bigger evil than Syed Hussein. Hashim Yaccob thrives on showmanship. He also enjoys humiliating his subordinates in public. He is a new clone of an academic sadist. He doesn’t beat around the bush with his loud mouth, scolding and passing unkind remarks non-chalantly to anyone who dares to cross his path. And yet with the Media, he portrays himself as a highly respectable academic scholar, bubbling with visionary magic and flowery poems of the superlatives. In them, he has disguised his ulterior motives succinctly and cleverly. Of course Hashim Yaacob is good at it. He is a Grand Puppeteer of the modern Ramayana. This is sheer hypocrisy of the ultimate extreme kind. When he was appointed Vice Chancellor he proudly went around the campus claiming that the job suited him and was meant for him and nobody else. He claimed that it is ordained that he should be VC. He claimed too that he never had to lobby for the job because our political masters recognized his abilities and potential. The whole campus knew he worked for it day and night. He had secret meetings regularly at the Residence of the Master of 7th Residential College with his gang of “Rasputins” scheming on the best way to bring down the then Vice Chancellor. He played his game well by rubbing shoulders with the right political leaders. These political leaders are also of the breed with personal ulterior motives, just another pack of hungry hyenas. Sadly, this proud son of a rubber tapper had nothing but destruction in mind for University of Malaya.<BR/><BR/>Compared with previous leaderships of the University, Hashim Yaacob is far and way behind in terms of intellectual ability, sincerity, honesty, humility, vision and work ethics. The comparison can be likened to that of the earth and the sky. He has no real plans, apart from his preaches that Professors are to deliver boring Inaugural Lectures; that everyone must publish in international journals; that each Faculty must organise international conferences; that each Faculty must establish a Parent Teacher Association (PTA). That latest one is one big laugh. Why does a University need to have a PTA? Where in the world is that ever done? What other concrete and meaningful directions has Hashim Yaacob given to the Faculties to achieve excellence? On paper everything looks good. He has Professors as his Deputy VC’s and Deans. What kind of Professors are they? His motto has always been “WORK FOR ME” unlike our beloved Prime Minister who wants the nation to work with him. He appointed them Professors first before appointing them Deans. How were they made Professors? Of course, according to the rules, except where the rules say there must be journal papers, he threw them away for most of them. Why? Because these are his “Rasputins” who day and night are only capable of saying what he wants to hear. Day and night, these “Kangkung Professors” will only say YOU ARE THE A GREATEST ala Mohamad Ali the boxer. Hashim Yaacob thrives on being praised, on being thanked for having helped his “Rasputins”. He cared little for rules, procedures, welfare and hearts of his staff. “I am supreme, I am Vice Chancellor, anyone dares to question me? I am PM’s man”. That was what Syed Hussein used to claim back in his heyday. And yet, he was hauled for smuggling a miserly carpet from Singapore and thrown out unceremoniously. Hashim Yaacob has forgotten that what happened to the “TOAD” (Hashim Yaacob’s nickname for Syed Hussein) could also happen to him. How long can Hashim Yaacob cover his big and smelly elephant’s carcass (bangkai gajah) from our beloved Prime Minister? Hashim Yaacob has to deliver something excellent at the end of his 3 year tenure. At the moment he has nothing to show except a series of misappropriation of funds, illegal spending, wastage, cronyism and nepotism. He has managed to even transfer his own aging wife from UKM to UM so as to be near him. How loving when it is known he has a long list of illicit affairs with younger girls. No output, Hashim Yaacob. Plain simple. He has 3 Deans (who are Professors) who knew nothing about what it takes to manage a Faculty. These Deans (Engineering, Education and Computer Science) are only good at parroting everything Hashim Yaacob wants them to say. Like Hashim Yaacob, the VC, they do not understand the intricacies of the University Semester System, they do not understand the details of the Certified ISO System, they do not understand the government rules of Human Resource Management, they do not understand the government rules of Financial Management. They are Kangkung Professors who do not even have any form of academic track record either in teaching or research, let alone managing a Faculty. They are only good at giving fiery speeches (most of the time out of context and in the wrong place and at the wrong time), hollow fiery speeches filled with empty slogans with no tangible academic content. They are also good at scolding the younger staff for not showing respect to their elders. They are good at showering praises to the VC all the time, endlessly and without fail as if it is ordained that the VC is to be praised day and night even if one is not sincere about it. The DVC’s are aware of it. They are aware that Hashim Yaacob, the VC, has been flouting the rules to his own advantage, to bloat his own belly and yet they dared not raise a single finger. They are aware that Hashim Yaacob despised the ISO certification but had to live with it out of fear of being ridiculed for disregarding an internationally proven management tool. Why? They too are with him and not unlike him. They cannot bear to lose the privileges of a chauffer driven new Perdana. They cannot bear to lose the glamour of the job, the perks that come with it, the connection with the people upstairs that will promise them a better (political) position in the future. They worked hard in rubbing Hashim Yaacob’s arse to be there. They are not about to lose all that for the sake of saving Universiti Malaya. What is there to save in Universiti Malaya. It is all destroyed. Who cares? The students will still choose to come to UM as their first choice. UM is only living on its name. For how long? Who cares? These are the chosen Professors of UM. Long live UM.<BR/><BR/>posted by unimalaya at 12:31 AM | 0 commentsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1131128336696771932005-11-05T02:18:00.000+08:002005-11-05T02:18:00.000+08:00Its not that easy,at least for them, if you fire s...Its not that easy,at least for them, if you fire someone from a high hierachy, you have to find someone to replace that guy. We all know that how incompetent the whole chain is. So if you fire everyone in one go, the whole system could came to an abrupt halt and they cannot afford that. So for a better solution the VC has to be replaced first. <BR/>Then slowly people around him must be replaced. Especially those who didnt produce significant work like those mentioned previosly in the blog of publish or perish. You really have to wonder how did the system in UM even sustain these delusional people to this end, where some group of people work like hell others just sit around and continue their delusion of grandeur. To solve this I think they really have to stop letting incapable people of even holding a post. This practise is really widespread in the goverment sector.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1131111198882672072005-11-04T21:33:00.000+08:002005-11-04T21:33:00.000+08:00So if VC get fire, do all those who support him ha...So if VC get fire, do all those who support him have to go too? Wouldn't that be nice, one sweep...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1131097180209791022005-11-04T17:39:00.000+08:002005-11-04T17:39:00.000+08:00Flattery indeed. The only way that can seal the fa...Flattery indeed. The only way that can seal the fate of people like the VC is consistency of results in the ranking and multiple sources of various ranking. What I meant is consistently a year by year result showing that the ranking is dropping shown not only by THES but other sort of organisation as well. I mean he claimed that UM is the 100th in the world, yay, others must have heard about UM, let's ask them. That will be the grave for him and maybe his lackeys, possibly his superior as well for not firing him for unfathomable incompetence. <BR/><BR/>For the time being it is rather hard to still remove him since he is still pulling all these political stunts to have people to back him up and try to advertise the so called 100th ranking. Also include the fact that, not many people actually realized UM is in the deeper trouble than it can be. A few days ago I just asked my friend's friends who are studying in UM, do they know anything about it. You can guessed it, they were oblivious. Either that or they just dont want to talk about it. Or maybe just a small portion of them bother to know about it. For example they say the VC is bad, but they have no idea, how bad.<BR/><BR/>Right now they are using one of the infamous politician trick known as, if you tell a lie a thousand times, eventually it must be the truth. This of course doesnt work on the well informed, but it certainly works on the public mass. Leadership at its total meltdown you can call it.<BR/><BR/>Also one interesting question that is rather scary is, what happened if this dude actually gets to live to tell the tale to our future generations on how well UM did?(Another flattery? But insults to the educated) I am not kidding it could really happened, given the fact that the political arena in Malaysia where unfairness prevails.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1131093212349213052005-11-04T16:33:00.000+08:002005-11-04T16:33:00.000+08:00You have to hand to the VC, he got a whole bunch o...You have to hand to the VC, he got a whole bunch of lackeys working for him. Long live feudalism!!<BR/><BR/>Hmmm. I notice not a single one of his his "great UM alumni" have come out for him.. I suppose he don't expect any of us stupid proletariat people to notice it.. Ah ya.. We not VC of 169th place University in the world mah. After all we are just common folks who make a living with our intelligence and diligent and don't kiss asses and abuse and take advantage of others. We so stupid..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com