Thursday, October 23, 2008

No Free Speech for Nobel Laureate

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I want to reproduce a letter written by a friend of mine - Andrew Aeria - on the move by UM to scrap a talk that was supposed to have been ...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Malaysian academic quoted in the Economist

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It's not often that a Malaysian academic gets quoted in the Economist. I read this economist article last week and it referred to a Mal...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

PhD for Zahid Hamidi

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A few friends emailed me recently to tell me that an UMNO leader, Zahid Hamidi, currently a Minister in the PM's department and former U...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

THES 2008 Rankings

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The 2008 THES rankings are out as many of our readers have noted. Not surprisingly, no Malaysian university made it to the top 200. The top...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Third Report Card MOE Blueprint

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Read this pretty long article in the Star on the Third Report card of the MOE in following the progress of the National Education Blueprint...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

Science Stream versus Arts Stream

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A friend of mine, Tzu Anne, pointed me to this post that was originally from a Singapore newspaper, the Electric New Paper, and reproduced i...
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Fake Degrees from St Regis

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Read this article on the Malaysian Insider, originally reported by SCMP in Hong Kong about fake degrees from a St. Regis University. Appare...
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Friday, October 03, 2008

Malaysian author long listen for the Booker prize

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Got this link from a mailing list I'm party of (the Malaysian Forum started by a group of Stanford students). It's an interview wi...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Finally, a VC with a good academic record

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Got this piece of news from a friend from one of the public unis. Zaini Ujang, at 43, is the youngest VC in a public university, in this ca...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

SPM 2008 Revision Questions

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Times Guides, the publishers of Times Higher Education magazines have published Times SPM 2008 Revision Questions. 15,000 copies of the book...
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Monday, September 15, 2008

UPSI Study on S&M

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Managed to locate an NST report on the UPSI study. You can download the study from the NST page. Bakri was certainly right about the lack o...
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Bakri Musa's view on S&M in English

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A well thought out piece by Bakri Musa. I got this through email and I don't think Bakri has posted it up on his website yet. I'll ...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Science and Math in English - Alternative Views

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Two additional letters advocating for the reversal of the policy of teaching Science and Math in English. The first , written by Khairy Jama...
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Sunday, September 07, 2008

Another BTN fiasco

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We've discussed the brainwashing which happens in the BTN courses before ( here and here ). One of the reasons why I'm so critical ...
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Unfair attacks on UiTM?

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Since the posts on UiTM have been mostly negative, actually all negative, I thought that we should have an alternative view for the sake of ...
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