Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Not a fake degree but...

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It was reported that Deputy House Speaker Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar came out to vehemently deny that his Doctorate in Business Administrati...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

25,000 laptops for students in Terengganu

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I had a chuckle when I first read this newspaper report . Apparently the Terengganu state government wants to give out 25,000 laptops to Pri...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Short post on the new UM VC

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Short post from SK Thew, a former MMU student, on the new UM VC. Sounds positive.
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Tony Pua arrested and put in jail

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Normally, we don't cover issues which are explicitly political in this blog. I bent this rule when I asked our readers to support Tony i...
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Saturday, November 08, 2008

New UM VC appointed

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Hot off the press - Dr. Ghauth Jasmon has been picked as the latest VC of UM. According to the bio page of Unity College International, wh...
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Thursday, November 06, 2008

Should Rosmah quit?

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Three Pakatan youth leaders representing the three Pakatan parties in power in the Selangor state government have asked for Datin Rosmah Ma...
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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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