Sunday, April 27, 2008

Farewell, Rustam Sani

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This is a little belated but we recently lost Rustam Sani, aged 64, academic, poet, activist, politician and blogger. I did not know him per...
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Monday, April 21, 2008

Got into Harvard, Rejected by JPA

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Lee Jia Hui got into Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth and Cornell but got rejected by JPA and Bank Negara. He explains his rejections (for the...
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Abolish JPA scholarships for undergraduates

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RM500,000. That's approximately the amount of money which JPA spends to send one scholar overseas to study in the US or the UK. It proba...
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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Helping kids in rural areas

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My wife and I have been volunteering as Math tuition teachers for a few kids from a Vietnamese hill tribe who have recently migrated to the ...
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The Elephant in the Room

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A long column in Malaysiakini on education reforms by a Malaysian Professor who is currently teaching in Qatar. I agree with many of his po...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Malaysian born US economist recruited as Penang advisor

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Read this in the Star a few days ago. Dr Woo Wing Thye, currently at the Brookings Institution, a Washington DC based think tank, as well a...
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Monday, April 07, 2008

World Class Vice-Chancellor Needed for UM

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Datuk Rafiah Salim was appointed as the vice-chancellor of Malaysia's premier university, Universiti Malaya for 2 years ago to replace ...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

'SLAB'ed in the face

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This letter in Malaysiakini caught my eye today. The issue highlighted is the implementation of the Skim Latihan Akademik Bumiputera (SLAB)...
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Monday, March 31, 2008

Scholarship Withdrawn Over Blog?

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There was the earlier case that JPA scholars were prevented from blogging , but I thought this new case was just absolutely ridiculous. The ...
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Turning Back the Clock

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Ah, that's my A01C class at Raffles Junior College 1989 (I'm right most on the back row) The Star Education Supplement did some inte...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

UUM and VC wins libel case

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It was reported recently that UUM and its VC has been awarded RM7 million for a libel case taken out against prominent blogger Raja Petra K...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

SPM Chinese: An MOE Conspiracy

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Thanks for the many comments and emails in regards to my previous post on SPM Chinese. I've certainly had my views on this issue change...
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Reply to Ian Beh

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Ian Beh, a form 5 student from a school in PJ, recently wrote this provocative and insightful open letter to myself and Tony in regards to ...
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PMR dates changed again

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Looks like the PMR dates are set to change again, this time to the end of October and early November instead of the middle of October and e...
Friday, March 21, 2008

Tzuo Hann is back!

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Remember my crazy friend from Duke who was cycling back to Malaysia from Ireland? I've posted about Tzuo Hann here and here . Well, he...
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