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Completing ChinaX’s Module 2: The creation and end of a unified empire
To understand the future, one must learn from the past. To understand China of today, one must learn about China of the past. If you are a Chinese Malaysian (or ethnic Chinese of other nationalities), you could do no wrong in learning a lot more about your roots.
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Despicable act of an educator – inflating marks for bribes
It is disgraceful for an academic to inflate the marks of students in exchange for bribes so that they can pass their examinations. This is despicable. It seems that the institution concerned, Curtin University, Australia, does not have a foolproof system to detect and check on possible abuse by academics. I think all institutions should have an…
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Dismal showing by Malaysian students in PISA 2012
The latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) ranking showed that Malaysian students’ collective performance was way below par and had in fact retreated from previous PISA ranking in 2009. PISA was carried out in 2012 over 510,000 plus students, aged between 15 and 16 years across 65 nations. On the whole, Asian nations did…
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Learning about Bitcoin
There has been lots of interest in this virtual currency or more appropriately described as cryptographic transaction medium called Bitcoin. One Bitcoin at the end of Nov 2013 is worth over US$1,000 making it coming close to the price of one ounce of gold (about US$1,250 on Nov 29, 2013). I have done a lot…
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Free college education: what about the private providers?
The Malaymailonline has a report on an exchange between Deputy Minister of Education, Mary Yap and Ipoh Barat MP, Thomas Su on the issue of PTPTN loan defaulters. The matter of free higher education was mentioned. The whole debate was flawed. No considerations on both sides were given to the fact that higher education in…