tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post116573527057880783..comments2024-03-21T20:10:28.943+08:00Comments on EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA: Medal Obsession Continues... (Part II)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1165898620888884242006-12-12T12:43:00.000+08:002006-12-12T12:43:00.000+08:00No point complaing maaaaa!Just remember where you ...No point complaing maaaaa!<BR/><BR/>Just remember where you put your "x" next time. Dont follow your emotions....support DAP and the opposition partiesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1165893320955077082006-12-12T11:15:00.000+08:002006-12-12T11:15:00.000+08:00Nincompoops lording our public universities and pe...Nincompoops lording our public universities and perpetuating mediocrity ...brutal but honest? Those who can make a diference, please listen, listen, listen to us. Do something fast before it gets rotten to the core.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1165862059746605762006-12-12T02:34:00.000+08:002006-12-12T02:34:00.000+08:00i could not agree more with everyone else. it woul...i could not agree more with everyone else. it would be great if you spoke up against these issues more aggresively and beyond the realm of cyberspace. These are not just your opinions, while reading it i couldn't agree more. I'm amazed at these things you bring up, that we could stoop so low as a country. I encourage you to speak up! We all need to!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1165861804301698302006-12-12T02:30:00.000+08:002006-12-12T02:30:00.000+08:00Why oh why do we have shameless nincompoops lordin...Why oh why do we have shameless nincompoops lording some of our public universities?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1165859938881668172006-12-12T01:58:00.000+08:002006-12-12T01:58:00.000+08:00My impression about the issue is that most of the ...My impression about the issue is that most of the public universities focus more on applied research rather than basic research. In term of commercialization, I think it's good to promote any invention from the public universities to the world. But the problem is, how many of those "invention" really attract the manufacturer. Hunting for the medals from these expo shouldn't be the main focus for the universities nor it should be used as a measure for the quality of the university. In fact, many years ago, the local public universities spend million of dollars to get the ISO9000 which has nothing to do with academic standard or quality. To me, publication is still the most important part if you want the university to be known worldwide.coleonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17469904971035590689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1165858745148234212006-12-12T01:39:00.000+08:002006-12-12T01:39:00.000+08:00Dear enlightened readers,Now quickly (before it is...Dear enlightened readers,<BR/>Now quickly (before it is removed)visit each of the established IPTA websites and tell me which IPTA does not showcase their trade expo trophies under so-called world-class achievements/awards/what-have-you?<BR/><BR/>here is an example<BR/>http://www.um.edu.my/ccm/navigation/root/awards/year-2006/itex/nts<BR/><BR/>is ITEX as dubious as EUREKA?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1165856170944908552006-12-12T00:56:00.000+08:002006-12-12T00:56:00.000+08:00As an lecturer as well as a PhD student, I would ...As an lecturer as well as a PhD student, I would like to share some experience in terms of Malaysian universities. I quote from my ex professor's book where he gave some interesting comments related to education in a British asian system:<BR/><BR/>"...But alas, an honours students in Southeast Asia today is nothing like the one I obtained in 1950. In a brazen grade inflation (consequent degree deflation), anyone gets an Honours degree after 3-4 years of undergraduate studies. Nobody has to read 800 pages per week, let alone in 14 weeks. Nobody has to defend a careful forecast of the futrue with arguments and computations. Just memorize the notes handed out, written on the board, and/or presented online (A study who regularly got "B" boasted to me that he simply memorized online notes, never opened the textbook and hardly attended classes), and regurgitate them on the examination. How much knowledge can be expeted out of the so called imposter of an Honours degree...<BR/><BR/>But the Honours is an Honours. The British University could not be faulted for assuming that the candidate to be wide-read as the genuine Honours student in the UK. So it was the lady faculty member at a National Uiversity in a Southeast Asian country told me produly that she wrote her 1995 PhD dissertation on something like Life on an Asian plantation". How could the British professor know anything about Asian plantation when he hemself had never visited Asia? Which self-respecting university gives its highest epitome of excellence to a description, no matter how poetic, of life on a remoate Asian plantation?<BR/><BR/>Understandably, the more I discuss with Asian faculty their PHD dissertaitons at British Univrsities, the more they descend in my Amercan estimation. So after the lady faculty member told me of her underwhelming academic contribution to genuine knowledge, I was horried to see that she was a assigned a fresh crop of PhD students!" (Chacko, Problem formation and formulation, page 23-24).<BR/><BR/>achong, just a lecturerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1165848700551238822006-12-11T22:51:00.000+08:002006-12-11T22:51:00.000+08:00We are often judged by the company we keep. Refer ...We are often judged by the company we keep. Refer to http://www.brussels-eureka.be/Eureka/2006_medals.asp: The 4 countries with the most number of medals (other than Malaysia) are the Republic of Moldova, Poland, Romania and the Russian Federation. Other countries that participated in this tradeshow included well-known research powerhouses such as Azerbajian, Bosnia, Croatia, Jordan, Kazakstan and the Ukraine.<BR/><BR/>There was only one gold medal "awarded" to the UK and to the US respectively.<BR/><BR/>I haven't looked at the details of each particular "award" or "medal" but I'm quite sure that the winners did not include academics from distinguished universities in the US, UK, Australia, Singapore, Canada, China, Japan (and the list goes on).<BR/><BR/>Kudos to Tony for highlighting this 'false promotion' of the part of UITM.Kian Minghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12615270889115130547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1165847004800443902006-12-11T22:23:00.000+08:002006-12-11T22:23:00.000+08:00or publish in the sun.or send a letter to the Mini...or publish in the sun.<BR/><BR/>or send a letter to the Ministry of Higher Education. <BR/><BR/>please do something!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1165842752455830702006-12-11T21:12:00.000+08:002006-12-11T21:12:00.000+08:00Tony,Please..please.. at least publish your commen...Tony,<BR/><BR/>Please..please.. at least publish your comments on Malaysiakini.com...<BR/><BR/>They will certainly publish your comments...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com