Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Alternative department rankings

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Thanks to Nordina for pointing out this article to me. It's an alternative ranking system for individual departments in US universities...
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Anugerah Academic 2006

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I was told to check out this award by a friend. The details are below. From the website: AAN bertujuan memberi pengiktirafan kerajaan yang ...
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HPAIR Conferences 2007

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The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) invites you to participate in our annual summer student conference in Asia...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

USM moving ahead?

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Another sign that USM is trying to move ahead of the other research universities? Report below taken from the Star , Feb 25, 2007. Wooing th...
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USM PhD scholarships

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I got this application advertisement from a friend recently. USM was and is actually making marketing trips to the US to recruit potential P...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Rogue Academics

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In an aptly titled opinion piece, " The joke's now on Malaysia " by the Star's Group Editor in Chief, Datuk Wong Chun Wai,...
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National Education Blueprint - Hiccups Already?

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Ok, this is one time I can't find the reference back to the article which I read in the local papers a few weeks back. So, I'm goin...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Elitist?

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OK, I'll much rather not having to blog about this for I fear stirring more controversies. It's certainly not the first time that w...
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The limitations of collaboration...

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While I think it's good that the UK is keen on fostering stronger ties with Msia in the higher education sector, collaborations should n...
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

The Politics of Reform

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I've written recently the importance of "delivery" with regards to the success of the National Education Blueprint 2006-2010. ...
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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Research Centres in the UM

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This post is inspired by one of the comments in Tony's post regarding the recognition of degrees from Beijing and Tsinghua universities...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Supporting Descartes on Facebook

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Thanks to Sriram (NUS) for starting the following group on facebook - "Support for the Descartes Education Counselling Centre in Malays...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Jaguh Kampung and Boring Students

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I came across this column in the NST by Zainah Anwar today and I thought that I should reproduce it for our readers to read now (and also f...
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Monday, February 12, 2007

Descartes Education Counselling Centre

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It was a little more than a year ago in December, when I first mooted the idea on this blog of setting up a " non-profit organisation f...
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China Universities to be Recognised?

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The Malaysian government appears to be finally lookiing to recognising qualifications from the top 2 universities in China - Peking and Tsin...
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