Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Political Universities

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As reported by the New Straits Times and the Star on August 7th, the Wawasan Open University (WOU), offering degrees for working adults, w...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Higher Education Ministry in More Hot Soup? (II)

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Just two months ago, University Malaya (UM), and particularly its vice-chancellor, - invited scorn by "forcing" the resignation of...
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What's a Degree Worth Today?

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The Star last week had an interesting article which claimed that many degree and diploma holders are "hiding" their qualification...
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Monday, August 08, 2005

Ministry to Probe Latest UPU Debacle

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In my earlier blog post - Higher Education Ministry in Hot Soup - I commented on the article by the Star which highlighted the fact that c...

Bogus Universities? (II)

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In my earlier post with regards to " Bogus Unviersities? (I) ", I've highlighted how a certain politician seems to have fallen...
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Drug Testing @ Varsities

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In a commendable move by the Ministry of Higher Education reported by the Star today, the local universities have agreed to comply with the...
Sunday, August 07, 2005

Overwhelmed

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When I first started blogging on this site (not so far back in April this year), I was actually inspired by the work that Jeff Ooi has done ...
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Saturday, August 06, 2005

Higher Education Ministry in Hot Soup?

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Following a Star report on August 3rd, and my corresponding post , the Star in a front page article publicised the fact that confidential ...
Thursday, August 04, 2005

Bogus Universities? (I)

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One of the topics which have cropped up recently is the issue of "bogus universities", where many Malaysians apparently obtain the...
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The Role of the Private Sector in Tertiary Education

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While browsing the net, I've chanced upon a great 56 page research report entitled - The Role of Transnational, Private,and For-Profit P...
Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Can You Buy Places in Malaysian Universities?

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An article in the Star today highlighted that there are conmen attempting to "sell places in varsities". A student who did not ge...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Dr Terence Gomez Saga - The Fallout?

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After the much publicised affair over the forced resignation of Dr Terence Gomez from University Malaya in order for him to accept the offer...

Scholarship from European Union

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Thanks to information from a kind reader, Dude K - there's a fairly new scholarship - Erasmus Mundus - available for candidates seeking ...
Monday, August 01, 2005

Equal Access to Education (II)

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As highlighted in the previous blog post , a Selangor delegate, Dr Amran Kasimin put up a motion calling for "more access to education...
Thursday, July 28, 2005

Equal Access to Education

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During the UMNO General Assembly which was just completed (see highlights here ), a Selangor delegate, Dr Amran Kasimin ( the number of ...
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