Monday, April 10, 2006

9th Malaysia Plan: An Overview

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Ookie. With the 9th Malaysia Plan (9MP) out for two weeks already, I suppose it's about time both Kian Ming and me put up some stuff abo...
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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Offers from Yale, MIT & U Penn!

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Congratulations to 2004 SPM top scorer with 14 1As, Anushree Lalitha Subramaniam who received acceptance offers from 8 top schools in the Un...
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Friday, April 07, 2006

American Degree Programme: A Response

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Here's a letter from Alain Chong who was a "little annoyed" with my write up on the American Degree Programme @ Private Colleg...
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Accessing the 9MP

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Tony and I are in the process of going through the 9MP and highlighting individual sections which pertain to education. But before I fire of...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

HIV+ Discrimination Against Kids?

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Here's a tough question. We have read many stories about unfaithful husbands infecting their unsuspecting and pitiful wives with the HIV...
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

The Elusive VC Search Committee

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"How will the next Universiti Malaya vice-chancellor be selected? No one really knows." The above was the first sentence in an art...
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Monday, April 03, 2006

Smart Kids, Stressed Teachers

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"You should not send your kid to school too early." Well, that's the advice a friend of mine got from her (retired) teacher mu...
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Applause For Hashim

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Wow. You have got to give it to the Universiti Malaya (UM) folks. I really didn't want to put in any more posts for the former vice-ch...
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Sunday, April 02, 2006

Rewriting Our History

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I have written on historical revisionism in our textbooks 3 months back. Previously it was about Ming Dynasty being a Islamic dynasty or t...
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Friday, March 31, 2006

UM VC Appointment Ding Dongs

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Hmm... impressive. Our local English dailies trying to outdo each other in their reports on the to-be-vacant position at Universiti Malaya ...
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Friendly advice to new UM VC

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Since the current hot topic is the appointment of a new UM VC, perhaps a few words of friendly advice are relevant. And since the previous ...
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Thursday, March 30, 2006

New Universiti Malaya Vice-Chancellor Appointed

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Interestingly enough, I was just mentioning my surprise that the New Straits Times (NST) didn't get the scoop on the shortlisted candid...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Hashim Goes!

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Yup. It's now confirmed. The tenure of Kapten Datuk Professor Dr Hashim Yaacob as the vice-chancellor of Universiti Malaya ends this Fr...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Aces Go Places

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Okay, now I'm finally going to put pen on paper on something which is a tad sensitive. Plenty of you out there are not going to be too ...
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Monday, March 27, 2006

Don't "Phak Thor" for Straight As

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Ouch. No wonder I never got my straight As for any of my examinations except for my Penilaian Darjah Lima, where I did actually achieve my o...
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