Saturday, March 28, 2009

Allocation of JPA scholarships

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Read this Bernama piece in the Star today about 20% of PSD scholarships being set aside for bumiputra students in Sabah and Sarawak. The Mi...
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Friday, March 27, 2009

Tok Pa for Minister for Higher Education

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OK, one final note from the UMNO GA and we can move on. Since Khaled Nordin, the current Minister for Higher Education, failed to win one of...
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Appoint UMNO loyalists

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I knew that it was going to be a challenge to keep the UMNO elections out of this blog. Check out this quote from an UMNO delegate: Musa’s ...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Not Enough PhD Applicants

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A couple of weeks back, I blogged about how the mini-budget / stimulus package provides for an additional 10,000 places for Masters level co...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Politicising Education

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No, this isn't about the issue of teaching science and maths in English — an issue where I slightly disagree with Kian Ming's take ,...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The Benefits of Education Fairs

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I've always liked the idea of education fairs even though I've not had the opportunity to attend one in the recent past. Since someo...
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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Science and Math in English - Writing on the Wall

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I wrote this in December of last year - "I suspect that a compromise decision may be made. Either continue teaching S&M in English...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Stimulus package for postgrad students

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One area affected by the mini-budget or stimulus package that was announced yesterday is postgraduate education in Malaysia. All the details...
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Monday, March 09, 2009

Thoughts of Wisdom from Fikri

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I first 'met' Fikri though the education blog. I found that he left pretty interesting comments and emailed him because of this. I f...
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The politics of language

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As we all probably know, the problem of language has flared up again and the police have had to restrain protesters campaigning for a repeal...
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Sunday, March 01, 2009

What After SPM?

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A plug for what I think is a really really great project spearheaded by a few young Malaysians - Chong Yong Wei Gabrielle , Goh Jing Pei, Ki...
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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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