Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Majority of PMR Science Answers in English

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Headline in the Star today - 51.2% of candidates chose English and English only to answer their PMR Science exam compared with 30.8% who an...
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Freedom to Our Schools: Decentralisation and Autonomy

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One interesting thing I noticed about the roundtable that the Education Ministry held to discuss the issue of teaching science and maths in ...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Seeking Public Feedback: S&M in English

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I know that this issue has been flogged to death but I had a thought about this yesterday. Regardless of the outcome, there will be groups t...
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Foreign students - socialising with the locals?

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To build on Kian Ming's points about students from Botswana , I thought I would relate my own experience from spending one-and-a-half ye...
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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Botswanan students have it hard?

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Maybe I was jumping the gun in saying that Malaysia is a good place for international students to come to especially those who are from Mus...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

A Little Bit (Lot?) About Me, John Lee

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Thanks for the introduction , Kian Ming! I think a lot of you might have stumbled across my personal website, Infernal Ramblings in the pas...
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Welcome JohnLeeMK

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There's a new addition to the blogging team here at Education in Malaysia. Tony has been really busy with his responsibilities as an MP ...
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Malaysia's Comparative Advantage

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I was chatting with a student from an Islamic country this morning. He seems like a really bright guy and he was interested in doing a PhD o...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Kenapa say benci AUKU

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Interesting points raised by the MP for Rasah, Anthony Loke , on the effects of AUKU / UUCA. I particularly like the 3 M's (menyalin, m...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Guide for future and current medical students

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Was alerted by a friend of a free downloadable book that every medical and wanabee medical student should read before and during his or her...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Postgrad smokescreen?

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One of the first initiatives announced by new UM VC, Prof Ghauth Jasmon, is the decision to increase the number of post graduate students at...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Star SMS Poll, Tuesday 16 Dec 2008

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Have your say! The Star SMS Poll, Tuesday 16 Dec 2008 Should Mathematics and Science continue to be taught in English in primary schools? YE...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

Biro Tatanegara - The Prime Minister's Reply

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After all the questions and reports we've received on the Barisan Nasional propaganda organ in the form of Biro Tatanegara, blogged here...
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Sunday, December 14, 2008

The selfishness of all sides

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In case any of our readers are wondering, no, I've not lost track of the current debate on teaching Science and Math in English. Partly ...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Amendment to the UUCA

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I haven't had a chance to go through the latest amendment to the UUCA that is working its way through parliament right now but from what...
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