Friday, February 27, 2009

Guest Article: NS Observations and Thoughts (II)

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Part 2 of Mei San's article on the NS program. M-16 Training The M-16 training is one of the greatest “selling points” of the NS progr...
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Guest Article: NS Observations and Thoughts (I)

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Below is Part I of an excellent piece written by Mei San on the NS program. She's one of the many young Malaysians who have inspired me...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Do We Really Learn?

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One of the professors in my university's economics department runs an informal book club; you don't get academic credit for showing ...
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Blogging Diversity

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A few months back, I wrote about the need for diversity in thinking of different ways to solve old problems. I'm well aware of the fact...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Preparing for the Real World?

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Let's put aside the academic and intellectual side of education for the moment, and focus on something more basic: basic communications ...
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

What's in a name?

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I wasn't even aware that Victoria Institution or VI had changed its name to Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Victoria until I read this artic...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Teaching Our Young About Democracy

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As surely every Malaysian knows, there is a lot of political turmoil going on in our country right now. The democratic process is chaotic, a...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Courses offered by Public University 'subsidiaries'

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A reader notified me of this latest trend among our public universities - setting up 'subsidiaries' which offer courses such as dipl...
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Properly Using ICT in the Classroom

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One thing about the changeover to teaching science and maths in English in 2003 was that for the first time ICT (Information and Communicati...
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Monday, February 02, 2009

Involving Parents and Teachers

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My apologies for the lax posting over the past two weeks — I've been busy with a research proposal, which I will write a bit more about ...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

'Gaming' university rankings

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Read this from the Duke alumnus magazine. I think it's a good reminder for our VCs - don't try to 'game' the ranking system...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

New ways to solve old problems

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A few conversations I've had and events I've attended over the past week led me to this blog post. It's a post that is primarily...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

A*Star Suicide

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Read this bit of sad news. Got the link from a friend. A* scholar kills himself over a relationship gone bad. No angle on this. Just sad th...
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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Learning Malaysian History: A Lopsided Formula

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A major problem with our school system has to be the way we teach history. Our textbooks are profoundly boring, and our syllabus wholly prop...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Selangor State government to offer education scholarships?

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Read this in the Star today. The Selangor state government is giving out 10 scholarships to Malays and Indians who are fluent in Chinese to...
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