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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…
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It is not a contest when everyone wins an award
One of us has written a piece for The Heat (Friday, 08 Nov 2013) on the self-congratulatory acts by local public universities which cannot produce good research to “score” points. They sent students and staff to attend inventors show where more than 60% of entries win a prize (and team will have more than…
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Is our command of English really good?
This was a well received opinion piece published in theantdaily.com written by one of us. Last updated on 11/11/2013 – 07:06 Posted on 09/11/2013 – 18:32 Chow Yong Neng COMMENT: Recently, a local daily carried a story regarding a report by Education First which has a chain of English language schools internationally, showing that Malaysia ranked…