tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post5704472690413048554..comments2024-03-21T20:10:28.943+08:00Comments on EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA: Will We See UUCA Reforms?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1495700267804288602008-05-27T11:48:00.000+08:002008-05-27T11:48:00.000+08:00Tony, can you write something to warn our Malaysia...Tony, can you write something to warn our Malaysian students?<BR/><BR/>I am a victim.<BR/><BR/>Not many places accept our atas malaysian matriculation. I try apply to Singapore, and they say not accepted. UEC and STPM, yes. Malaysia matriculation no. Don't let others get shock like me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-50681305475118168872008-05-27T11:11:00.000+08:002008-05-27T11:11:00.000+08:00Very importantly, will reforms be effective enough...Very importantly, will reforms be effective enough to produce results as this?<BR/><BR/>http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/350113/1/.html<BR/><BR/><B>Survey shows NUS business graduates get higher starting pay</B><BR/><BR/>By Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 26 May 2008 1937 hrs <BR/><BR/>SINGAPORE: The job market is looking rosy for business graduates from the National University of Singapore. <BR/><BR/>A survey on its 2007 batch of graduates showed that almost all secured jobs within six months of graduation. <BR/><BR/>Eight in 10 got a job even before graduation and about seven in 10 received two or more job offers. <BR/><BR/>The graduates are also getting higher starting salaries, with top earners receiving up to S$10,800 a month. <BR/><BR/>NUS said the mean starting pay of its business graduates rose by some 13 per cent to more than S$3,000. <BR/><BR/>Most of the graduates are employed in banking and finance, oil and energy, and fast moving consumer goods industries. <BR/><BR/>Also doing well are graduates from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Its largest cohort of more than 4,800 last year were the highest paid. <BR/><BR/>Nine in 10 of them secured jobs within just a month of graduation and more received multiple job offers. <BR/><BR/>Salaries of some top earners exceeded as much as S$15,000 a month. - CNA/vmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-20002074727836892982008-05-27T10:51:00.000+08:002008-05-27T10:51:00.000+08:00allowing for political participation isn't going t...<I>allowing for political participation isn't going to create a huge demand for such events in schools."</I><BR/><BR/>Wrong. Wasn't it the young, politically aware young people who turned the tables on UMNO just a short while ago? Wasn't it how alternatif got into power now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-72605062698354036842008-05-26T22:13:00.000+08:002008-05-26T22:13:00.000+08:00Tony - can you consider putting up my suggestions ...Tony - can you consider putting up my suggestions on the Research Assessment Exercise (Setara)<BR/><BR/>http://tempinis.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/the-half-baked-research-assessment-exercise/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-58219987489153738182008-05-26T13:22:00.000+08:002008-05-26T13:22:00.000+08:00I doubt there will be reforms to UCCA or ISA acts....I doubt there will be reforms to UCCA or ISA acts...thats their important tools to control the rakyat (not communists anymore)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-32643246466864989982008-05-26T08:49:00.000+08:002008-05-26T08:49:00.000+08:00Dear Tony,I have been harbouring this thought for ...Dear Tony,<BR/><BR/>I have been harbouring this thought for a while. <BR/><BR/>Malaysian students generally are:<BR/>1) timid, keeping to themselves<BR/>2) unable to produce original, lateral thinking answers<BR/>3) prefer to be spoon fed<BR/>4) worse still, look at some that end up in civil service & thei mentality<BR/><BR/>in short, non-proactive and non-critical thinking<BR/><BR/>that's why we should have debating as a module in secondary school studies and story telling in primary level. Not too much weightage, like 10% to 15%, so that we can make our students take time to devote part of their time to learn to think and talk outloud.<BR/><BR/>Knowing the A chasers' dedication for prefection, it will bring the real best out in the open. We have too many all As SPM students nowdays and we have to find a way to split hairline, in this case, more rounded individuals from great book crunches<BR/><BR/>What d'u think? I think Teo Nie Ching benefitted from debating in school<BR/><BR/>Regards<BR/>Lee Wee TakAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-30704472580117056352008-05-26T02:49:00.000+08:002008-05-26T02:49:00.000+08:00It is interesting to know that it was Dr M that cu...It is interesting to know that it was Dr M that curbed the freedoms of expression at universities. It is also interesting to know that not too long ago during his reign English, Mandarin and anything faintly resembling anything from the West or North was prohibited including the limitation of Mandarin organges during CNY. I remember of being scolded at public facilities whenever I spoke in English and was made to speak BM. Thus, really now you see the clock for development being set backwards and the non-speaking countries in Asia catching up or surpassed us because there was no hangup about English as being a colonial tongue like Dr M had. Further, Dr M would wage arguments with anyone that disagreed with him whether it was right or wrong thus dampening much needed healthy discourse and debate at universities. I think he didn't want people to be clever and to follow his every word.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com