Saturday, March 11, 2006

Discipline Ill-Disciplined Headmasters

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This comes direct from the Minister of Education itself. Referring to earlier incidents such as when the principal of SMK Abdullah Munshi w...
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A PhD at 21?

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This story in the Star inspired as well as made me a little depressed. "Chan Yaoban, 21, who graduated with a PhD in Mathematics and S...
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More Azmi Sharoms Please

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You know what? I'm a little kinda surprised that Associate Professor Azmi Sharom has not had his behind kicked out of Universiti Malay...
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Friday, March 10, 2006

Sporting Tudungs

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I'm not a Muslim and I'm in no position to determine if wearing tudungs for students in schools should be made compulsory, optional ...
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Headmasters Go Beserk

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Two days ago, I wrote on the issue of corrupt ed headmasters which seems to have dominated the Chinese press over the few days. A certain ...
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Skills vs Intellect

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I can probably spend a long time writing an article with regards to our education system on whether it should focus on skills or intellect. ...
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Monday, March 06, 2006

Loyalty to Company?

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It was some 6 months ago when the New Straits Times headlined a report that Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak advised new gra...
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Sunday, March 05, 2006

Corrupted Headmasters

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A certain Mr Ong Koh Hou has advertised in the Oriental Daily a reward of RM500,000 for anybody who can come up with concrete evidence of co...
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Friday, March 03, 2006

It's Raining Doctors

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Well, according to an analysis by Malaysian Medical Association (MMA), we should be expecting a glut of doctors soon based on current trends...
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Thursday, March 02, 2006

Holy School!

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Is the action of a ustaz "allegedly" selling "air penerang hati" or holy water to improve pupils' memory the result ...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Go East Young Man

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We've been particular biased towards Western universities in most of our discussions in this blog. This is not surprising given that bot...
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Open Discrimination

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Okay, one more university goes down the respectability bin. I didn't know that the Open University of Malaysia (OUM) derived its name f...
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Monday, February 27, 2006

Medicine: A Calling

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Ask most Malaysian parents what they want their children to become, a substantial majority will want them to become doctors. To quote a pro...
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Sunday, February 26, 2006

Going 'Banana'

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I'm probably threading on thin ice here, so I can only hope that readers will take this discussion in the most open manner. Where disag...
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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Harvard Project for Asia & International Relations

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The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) invites you to participate in their annual summer student conference in As...
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