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Speak out for good governance

By WAN MOHD AIMRAN

The ongoing controversy over UM’s ranking epitomizes the deplorable conditions of our education system - thrusting its rotting self directly into the media. Sluggish and lukewarm response from government officials have made me wonder whether everyone is born with awareness and humility.

It is interesting to note that each time something major like this crops up…

A teenage lament

By QU HSUEH MING
We teenagers are peculiar. Neither children nor adults, we are in a transitional period - one that lasts eight years, and in some cases, more. And it is because of this that we are sometimes treated as pariahs by society as a whole. Think about it. Adults treat us like children (and […]

You are Muslim, according to MyKad

By ANDREW LOH
Imagine receiving your identification card and finding out that you were “converted” to another religion.
Impossible? Not really.
At least, not to hundreds of Malaysian MyKad holders who have suffered this unfortunate fate

Low education standard: tuition teachers to blame

By JAY MENON
If you like teaching, you should consider quitting your day job right now and become a private tutor. Recent newspaper reports (here, here and here) estimate that private tuition centers and tutors rake in RM20,000 to RM50,000 a month. In most cases, this income is not declared and is not taxed.
Parents are reported […]

Insufficient alarm over the fall of UM’s ranking

By WAN MOHD AIMRAN
University Malaya dropped from 89th to 169th place in the Times Higher Education Supplement this year, an embarassing blow to the Malaysian education industry.
This incident recently appeared in the news.
Although not surprising, one wonders how an institution, once regarded as a top university in Asia, if not the world, could have slipped […]