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Thursday, December 18, 2014

MEDICAL EDUCATION

pick your choice: 1. Doctor 2. Dentistry 3. Pharmacy Place of study offered at various counties including Russia, India, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Indonesia and China. Star 18 Dec 2014...

Monday, October 13, 2014

World Ranking

There is only four Malaysian Universities that had submitted the worlds ranking for 2014/2015. However the the better universities, UM and UKM had not submitted. Thus none of the Malaysian universities are ranked to even the top 400 universities in the world. UM VC said that the reasons were: 1. UM has not completed building up the publication lists. 2. It has poor financial standing. The main issues are, Malaysian Universities score very low scores in the reputation and citations. These two criteria are heavily weighted. The new ranking was...

Online Learning through MOOCs

The Malaysian Government has taken the initiative to launch MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses for Public Universities. The MOOCs is being used by universities worldwide, but only in Malaysia that the implementation was started by the government. The objectives of implementing MOOCs by the government are: 1. To transform learning and teaching method in the IPTA, 2.  To improve the quality and standard. 3. To support life long learning 4. To reach to the massive population To get it started, four IPTA..., UPM, UKM, UiTM and UniMAS...

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Malaysian Universities Require a Pass in English

The Minister of Education had made a surprised announcement, the students of Malaysian Public Universities are required to pass the English Language. This seem to be the series of Changes attempted by the government, some were aborted within a short period of less than 2 years while some may fizzle after some time. The examples are plenty, such as the SMART School and the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English. The latest was the School...

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Pinching at Public Universities

It was reported that the Malaysian Private Universities are pinching senior lecturers at the public universities enticing them by offering bigger money with lesser work load. The Star 20 May 2014 These are some of the examples: 1. The USM campus in Kubang Kerian in Kelantan is the worst hit. Thirty eight senior lecturer had left the school in the last six months. 2. University Malaya lost 21 clinical lecturers in the last 12 months. The universities...

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Training More Pilots

The Star 9 Mar 2014 Pilots are among the highest pay professional in an airline. Thus it makes sense to become a pilot. The only setback is, it may be difficult to get the chance to join an airline....