tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post113932465728614544..comments2024-03-21T20:10:28.943+08:00Comments on EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Looks WestUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1139680783371550662006-02-12T01:59:00.000+08:002006-02-12T01:59:00.000+08:00All these piecemeal efforts are useless and nonsen...All these piecemeal efforts are useless and nonsensical, as well as wasting efforts, unless we tackle the mother of all problems facing our society. We have to admit that the mother of all problems in our bolehland is the unwillingness of the government to treat all citizens equally and to use our talents equally. Because of this twisted practice, we don’t have the best people, who have vision and passion, running the country, planning the big picture in a holistic way, and charting brilliant long-term policies to move our nation forward.<BR/><BR/>As long as the present scenario is maintained, no matter what we do (e.g., by employing high quality professors from overseas), things will not get any better. Any foreign top professor with any sense will not accept a position in our public universities. The maximum monthly salary (e.g., say RM14,000) of our public university professors is less than the maximum monthly salary (e.g., say S$7,500 = >RM16,000) of a polytechnic lecturer in Singapore. A university professor in Singapore would easily earn S$15,000 per month. So, even if a foreign top professor would sacrifice his earning power to take up a position in any one of our public universities, what academic pleasure can he derive? He would be surrounded by largely Bumiputra colleagues and students who are comfortable with BM but not English. He would be teaching students of diverse academic abilities, from very good to very bad. He would be conducting research in an environment that has no good record of research culture. On top of these, he would also have to deal with internal politics and incompetent Bumiputra superiors, who are supposed to evaluate his performance (ala SSM)! What a joke! So, dream on UTM or any public university.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com