Monday, May 18, 2009

Only 20% of JPA scholarships given on merit?

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Not sure if the thrust of this report in the Malaysian Insider accurately reflects what the PSD DG told the DAP contingent. That 20% of the...
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Satu Sekolah Demi Semua

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Here we go again. Yet another campaign to try to pin all of Malaysia's racial problems on vernacular schools. Someone called 'Blog D...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

JPA Scholarships – Seeking A Fair & Equitable Policy

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Read about all the renewed controversy over the JPA scholarships recently? Check out Kian Ming's latest take (of our many takes ). We...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Never ending JPA scholarship 'controversies'

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The latest JPA scholarship results have been announced and not surprisingly, it has been met with howls of protests among the usual quarters...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Treating students with respect

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Amidst the political turmoil in our country, this little story headlined Student alleges sexual assault by teacher appeared in Malaysiakini...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Delay in Science and Math decision

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Looks like the new Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, has decided to defer the decision on whether to ...
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School choice in Malaysia

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A major shortcoming of the Malaysian education system is its cookie-cutter style of teaching, which assumes students are homogeneous, have t...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Exams no longer final word on assessment?

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Much appreciation to Firdaus, who in the comments of Kian Ming's post on the new Deputy Education Minister pointed us to the news that ...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Special Birthday Dedication to Ms Liew

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This post is from Gabrielle and it is dedicated to a very special teacher by the name of Ms Liew. I think after reading this, we will all a...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

New Deputy Minister reaches out via FB

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Read this story on the Star about how the new Deputy Higher Education Minister, Saifuddin Abdullah, is using facebook to reach out to his ...
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Friday, April 10, 2009

A New Education Minister: More of the Same?

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So our Prime Minister has reshuffled his Cabinet, and our new Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is now also our new Education M...
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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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