tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post115029197059649296..comments2024-03-21T20:10:28.943+08:00Comments on EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA: New UM VC: Initial PrioritiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1150685365442819592006-06-19T10:49:00.000+08:002006-06-19T10:49:00.000+08:00Dracula77....You forgot something...In this BOLIHL...Dracula77....<BR/>You forgot something...<BR/>In this BOLIHLAND, everything is possible!<BR/>Just read Kit Siang blog..even the scrapped scenic bridge cost more to scrap then actually building it!<BR/>Rationally it doesnt make sense, but in this BOLIHLAND everything is possible!<BR/><BR/>MALAYSIA BOLIH!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1150579143738593862006-06-18T05:19:00.000+08:002006-06-18T05:19:00.000+08:00Anon Sat Jun 17,Thanks to gov policy that VC shoul...Anon Sat Jun 17,<BR/><BR/>Thanks to gov policy that VC should only do "management"..How to manage something you don't even know/understand?kayronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220785206352233887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1150538215051372782006-06-17T17:56:00.000+08:002006-06-17T17:56:00.000+08:00Frankly, I doubt if our UM VC or any other VCs in ...Frankly, I doubt if our UM VC or any other VCs in our country knows what research is or how to do research!<BR/>So they are actually in no position to comment about research!<BR/>As long there are lecturers like koshy pillai and wirakarnain around I doubt our universities will achieve anything<BR/>The worst sin is people like BillBoard Hashim who can even look down on Universities like University Cardiff which has a lot of depts achieving ranking 5 and part of the Russel group of universities<BR/>What the ****!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1150374246943301542006-06-15T20:24:00.000+08:002006-06-15T20:24:00.000+08:00off topic:in The Australian newspaper special focu...off topic:<BR/><BR/>in The Australian newspaper special focus on Malaysia:<BR/>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19383783-36181,00.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1150333496844111792006-06-15T09:04:00.000+08:002006-06-15T09:04:00.000+08:00Uh, Kian Ming, you might want to correct your firs...Uh, Kian Ming, you might want to correct your first paragraph as a 10% increase of 8000 post grad students comes up to an increase of 800 students per annum, not 80, which is 1%. This will work up to a 8000(100%) student increase over ten years, not 800, which is 10%.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09990224754551683104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1150327228634914702006-06-15T07:20:00.000+08:002006-06-15T07:20:00.000+08:00How can UM produced high quality PhD graduates. if...How can UM produced high quality PhD graduates. if many of their lecturers are in the standards of Wirakarnain and Koshe Pillai?<BR/><BR/>It would be a miracle if Wirakarnain gets his PhD at last, cos he is so busy supervising his College...<BR/><BR/>In order to get quality PhD graduates, it is important that the External Examiners must be experts of their fields from established and reputable universities and not from some local institutions. The publications of such refereees must be beyond doubts with papers in Class 1 or 2 International journals and not hashed from some cheap persidangans and conferences.<BR/>UM used to do with such practices before...(ASK LEARN FROM HISTORY)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1150297879274107132006-06-14T23:11:00.000+08:002006-06-14T23:11:00.000+08:00actually, only the top schools in the US have such...actually, only the top schools in the US have such undergrad/postgrad ratio of 1:1. in most other universities around the world (including good ones like oxbridge (UK), toronto (Can), Melb (Aust), etc.), it averages out around 1:2 to 1:4. <BR/><BR/>the top private US schools prioritises the need for graduate research because they are able to and have the resources to keep a very small and selective group of students. furthermore, they are not "required" to absord large undergraduate numbers since they're usually research universities, not teaching universities.<BR/><BR/>IMO, while it is important to boost a university's research output, we should first focus in creating good graduates at undergrad level. improve lecturer selection, promotion, policies, etc. <BR/><BR/>again, all these seems to me like every other shortcut our public U's (especially UM) loves to take, which is to inflate the statistics without giving two hoots about the quality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com