Education-Industry-Government conspiracies

[morpheous]

guess most recomers know what this issue is all about.
Education-Industry-Government conspiracies at international levels are something that msians cannot do anything about it. we can theorize about it and discuss about it.
hence i am starting this serious thread.
msia is helpless becos, no way, msian police can arrest foreign conspirators on their home soil and bring them to msia for questioning and trials.
so morpheous will bring up some past articles pointing out IF msia's education system is being diluted by foreigners to meet foreign industries' demands(working world..)...for example selling useless knowledge/courses with little academic values...(msia's education system under assault/attack)??

all are highly debatable!..and highly controversies becoz whether these conspiracies will eventually translate into government sponsorship/scholarship..,perhaps???
hmm...whether if there is a link between MSC's ICT with msia's private college/uni and the latest BioValley project's Biotech industry...?
here are morpheous's X-files..:P
warning! some articles/quotes may not suit your likings!!

slave trade route in 16th,17th century: capture african natives on africa continent coast,sail to north america and west indies,sell slaves to cotton plantations,buy cotton.sail back to europe and britain,sell cotton. then sail back to africa coastlines...

opium trade route in 19th century.buy opium from india ports.sail to china's ports,sell opium and buy tea. sail back to britain and sell tea.then sail back to india to buy opium.

education trade route in 20th and 21st century. give master and phd qualifcations from uk,australia,US unis to msians and then have them return to teach in msia or other south east nations in their own private universities like monash,nottingham,curtin,swinburne etc..or private colleges with twinning collaboration with foreign unis. example taylor, inti, sunway, kdu, binary, informatics, cosmopoint, help, olympia, tar college,nilai international college etc... their targets: international students must be lured from india,pakistan,china,bangladesh,vietnam and other asian nations. for example: a msian lecturer with master degree from UK university teaches and supports US degree program in Msia's private education industry.the lecturer has to support his political patron because he is under their sponsorship/scholarship.

Britain was a nation addicted to tea,grown in china.the silver they spent on it began to drain the treasury,until british merchants discovered one thing for which the chinese would also be willing to spend silver: opium .they made the fateful decision to begin supplying the chinese with the drug,contributing to a growing addiction problem among china's population.

britain was a nation in needs of Malaysia's electronic and semiconductor goods.the british,americans,australians discovered one thing for which the msians would also be willing to spend their money/ringgit on :education and knowledge. they sell to the malaysians with ICT, business, management, marketing, computer studies,finance, engineering, etc..degree and diploma courses. contributing to a growing addiction problem among msian non-bumiputra citizens to private education.
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36 Strategies to attack Malaysia's education system
Repost this article I found...
How to use 36 Chinese Stratagems to attack Malaysia 's tertiary education system Posted 11-10-2003 03:32
Know Mahathir's mind and your mind and you can defeat him. Mahathir wants NEP ,most importantly he want to change the Malays. He uses government money or taxpayers money(power) to sponsor ("buy") education qualifications for young, bright Malay students. He sponsored tons of them to study at UK universities,spending billions of ringgit.
He catered to the needs of foreign investors. He builts infrastructure for them. He is a human being and can be trapped into a blunder like Cao Cao in the Battle of Red Cliff during Three Kingdom period.

In this 21st century, every nations in the world are engaged in global warfare for earth's resources. This war is global trade war. To win in this war, you need information. By making money, you can use your profit to buy resources from other nations.There is no need to wage physical warfare like sending invading armies or navy to attack a nation as happended in World War 2.
Information is knowledge and knowledge comes from education ,the backbone in building a nation.
Sun Tzu said " In time of peace, we must prepare for war, in time of war, we must prepare for peace....

Here are some examples of 36 Chinese stratagems employed in dealing with Malaysia.

Stratagem 1 Cross the sea under the camouflage
Foreigners can "economics colonize" Malaysia through foreign direct investments. They are coming to Malaysia under the pretense of investment. They are foreign investors. The sight of common investment pouring into Malaysia leads to slackened suspicion. Secret plans are better concealed in the open than in the dark and extreme public exposure often contains extreme secrecy.Rafidah wouldn't know all the secret schemes behind all these foreign investors,right?

Stratagem 2 Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao
America uses this stratagem.Attack and invade Irag to relieve Israel. This stratagem has nothing to do with education, not at this present moment, perhaps in the far future where international pressure can be apply on Malaysia to continue proving cheap water supply to Singapore. Pressure Malaysia to relieve Singapore.

Stratagem 3 Kill with a borrowed knife.
This is a real classic. In line with NEP, use the Malays' hands to "kill" the non-bumiputra. Use those sponsored Malay students to replace genuine non-bumiputra academicians in local universities.Mahathir's government practised this for decades.He kept on doing so until more than 90% of academicians in local universities are Malay sponsored students.
Remember this,Zhou Yu deceives Cao Cao into executing his experienced Naval commanders before liberating firestorm at Battle of Red Cliff.

Stratagem 4 Wait at ease for the enemy
To weaken or to divert Malaysia Government's attention, engage the Malaysia government into building many grand world class infrastructure. Tire Mahathir's energy and divert his attention from the oncoming assault on education. Moreover, the building of these grand infrastructure will "spillover" to foreigners benefits. For example Japanese and Korea contractors made money in building Petronas Twin Towers.

Statagem 5 Loot a burning house
When education path or meritocracy path is utterly destroyed by "sabotage and braindead" those sponsored Malay students at UK. Private colleges with close collaboration with foreign universities shall reap in huge profit selling fake education degree like hot cake. Confusion and chaos shall ensue when many local graduates are jobless after being taught by "mediocre" Malay lecturers in local univerities. This will swing the public tide for non-bumiputra Malaysian citizens to support and study in private education sector.

Stratagem 6 Make a feint to the east while attacking in the west
This stratagem is very similar to stratagem no.1 and no.8.Pretend to invest in Malaysia's IT industry and at the same time, attack, pillage and plunder Malaysia's education sector by selling ICT,business knowledge to them.

Stratagem 7 Create something out of nothing
Who doesn't want Malaysia government's billions of ringgit in education sponsorship? By creating useless,obsolete knowledge or subjects to be "sold" and taught to these sponsored Malay students when they are in UK universities,British goverment stands to rake in huge profits. Just create ICT knowledge for them and teach them application,protocols,networking,telecommunication
,etc or subjects with no or little academic values. Designate British technicians,janitors, music teachers,school teachers,clerks,etc to become "fake professors" to become PhD/Master academic supervisors or university lecturers to teach these foreign students. Upgrade polytechnics into universities to achieve this mean and divert foreign students to study at these "fake universities".

Stratagem 8 Advance to Chenchang by a hidden path
This is almost similar to stratagem no.1 .Pin down Malaysia Government into grand infrastructure projects and attack, pillage, loot ,plunder them on education sector through the "hidden path": twinning programs,A-level programs,3+0 program,online degree program,etc..

Stratagem 9 Watch the fire burning across the river
Just watch from afar,smile and glee as Malaysia government is thrown into chaos and confusion. One can see that they are introducing LAN, graduate retraining scheme,etc...Human Resource Minister outmanuevered and outfoxed!!.
Observe carefully and prepare to send in "mediocre/fake" academicians as expatriates to setup Malaysia-French university and Malaysia-Japan university or better still.. private foreign universities like Monash,Nottingham,Curtin,etc...Thanks a lot to Najib,Rithaudeen,etc..(all of them are Malay sponsored students)

Strategem 10 Conceal a dagger in a smile
Foreign professionals,consultants,bankers,CEOs,industriali
sts,investors,academicians like IAP members,politicians,goverment leaders shall all wear a smile when dealing with Mahathir,Rafidah,Najib,Badawi and many other Ministers.They all will tell the same story about how important Information and Comunication Technology is and how this industry is going to be the next engine of growth to the world.Presto!!MSC is conceived and government propanganda machine is swing into action "Cinta IT,Suka IT" Belajar IT!!!!"
Pang Tong "adviced" Cao Cao into chaining all his warships so that his soldiers will not go seasick. Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu and Huang Gai liberated fire to burn all Cao Cao's ships and soldiers. IAP members are like Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu. Huang Gai is "foreign investors,CEOs,etc" because he crossed the river.

Stratagem 11 Sacrifice the plum for the peach
In this stratagem,certain adjustment,restructuring and revamping of British education system needed to make it poise for full assault on Malaysia's education system Some sacrifices and inconveniences to their British citizens by allowing huge influx number of foreign students to study in "fake universities"
A-level examinations can be "diluted" to make it easier for foreign students to pass and obtain good grades so that these foreign students shall be lure to go to U.K for further study.Huge profits are to be made by selling "useless" degree to them.

Stratagem 12 Lead away a goat in passing
Seize every advantage in Malaysia's weak tertiary education system. Malaysia Government's negligince and ignorance of meritocracy must be fully exploited with the presence of private colleges and foreign universities. Think of those foreign universities as foreign armies on Malaysia soil.In past history, they are analogy to those foreign trading posts set-up on seaports forced to open by foreign aggression on China and Japan.
Their presence is to ensure profits to be made and Malaysia the "education prostitute" in the world. Foreign universities are like "pimps".The clients will be foreign students that come to Malaysia soil, to feed on Malaysia's resources, use Malaysia's public utilities, and of course , they will become the new "immigrant force" to make Malaysia their permanent home and also a major problem for Malaysia police force in the future, should they refuse to go back to their countries. Pimps make more money than the prostitutes,right?

Stratagem 13 Beat the grass to startle the snake
In this stratagem, foreign investors,CEOS,professionals,etc will stir up and generate Malaysia government's interest in ICT industry, saying that if Malaysia government is not fast to seize this opportunity to build MSC, they will invest and build this new industry in Hong Kong or some other Third world nations.This strategem works in similar fashion with stratagem no.26.

Stratagem 14 Raise a corpse from the dead
This stratagem make us of their "agents" .Those sponsored Malay lecturers are to be their CEOs of private universities or as patron to protect their interests (foreign private universities). These Malays, have no idea that their mind have been "weakened" throughout their undergraduate years in UK universities. They are "agents" developed by foreign education system.Another example is Tan sri Dr.Ng Lay Swee, ex-TARC principal can be manipulated to help the US Campbell University to plunder ringgit from Malaysia Chinese community so that her position as principal is secured by her supporters/sponsored TARC lecturers.

Stratagem 15 Lure the tiger out of the mountain
This stratagem is to lure those "fake,weak,mediocre" Malay academicians (governemnt sponsored students) into setting up Mimos,MDC so that more fuel can be added to to the fire to swing Malaysia's general public tide to ICT, the late 20th century "opium",introduced by foreigners. The "opium" to offset Malaysia trade balance with these foreign nations.

Stratagem 16 Let the enemy off in order to snare him
In this stratagem ,the enemy will be all those sponsored Malay/Chinese students send overseas for their tertiary education. There are two ways to deal with these "sponsored students". One is to keep on failing them thus sucking up more money from Malaysia government or simply pass them after teaching them nothing or something "useless",weakening their minds and then award them with their master/phd degrees so that in the distant future they can be lure out and be "ensnared "to work for foreign interests or be made to infiltrate Malaysia's important decision-making body.

Strategem 17 Cast a brick to attract a gem
To prop up these foreign education enterprises, you need lecturers or minions or "agents" to support them. What a better way to recruit these minions/supporters/agents/lecturers by offering scholarship laced with bonding conditions to young Malaysian students school leavers.Those bright Malay students will be baited after their SPM by joining and signing up with MARA,Petronas,Telekom,etc. scholarship and be sent to UK for their "development".So are those top Malaysian Chinese SPM/STPM students under TARC scholarship scheme. One bonded to become Malaysia's public universities "fake academicians", to destroy the meritocracy path,to replace genuine academicians,to poison and weaken future local graduates' minds. Another bonded to become Malaysia's private colleges/universities "fake academicians" to support foreign education programs based in Malaysia,directly providing aid to plunder Malaysia's wealth.
So much for Malaysia/Mahathir government's NEP...

Stratagem 18 To catch rebels, nab their leader first
This stratagem works together with stratagem 17. Future leaders come from a pool of educated people.The most educated person normally are the brightest pupils.By offering scholarships/bonding, foreigners can catch and "control" these future-would be leaders. One day, they may even be elected members of Parliament as the young generations will replace the old generations and the infiltration will slowly make Malaysia's Parliament to be "controlled" by foreigners.How many UMNO Youth leaders are Malay sponsored students, one may ask..??

Stratagem 19 Take away the fire under the cauldron
This stratagem works together with stratagem no.3. Find the weakest spot in Malaysia's NEP. Initiate the collapse by applying stratagem no.3. By removing,replacing and disposing those genuine non-bumpiputra Malaysian academicians, Malaysia government has no capable advisors who are able to see through the foreigners' dark schemes. Mahathir has to rely upon his Malay team of "fake" advisors( all of them are sponsored students) thus be easily ensnared into a blunder.

Stratagem 20 Fish in troubled waters
This stratagem is very similar to stratagem no. 5 . When Malaysia goverment found itself losing money each year, its economic momentum halted, unemployment among young graduates is rising, exploit this weakened position by setting up more private foreign universities or expand more foreign collaborations with private colleges. Win over genuine Malaysian non-bumiputra academicians who are "disposed of" to their side and have them employed to work for foreign cause.

Stratagem 21 The Cicada sheds its skin
Pretend to make a public display of coming to Malaysia to invest in MSC and hold that false posture so that Malaysia goverment will argue their case that the MSC is a success. But in reality little jobs or no high quality jobs are created for Malaysians in these so called R&D departments inside the foreign multinational companies.

Stratagem 22 Bolt the door to catch the thief
This stratagem is used to entrap non-bumiputra Malaysian students to enroll for their foreign education programs. By making Form 6's classes "destroyed" or in "shamble conditions" due to diverging of goverment funding to those sponsorship of Malay students ,these students will find themselves "trapped" in low quality foreign degree programs unable to return to the traditional Form 6's path.

Stratagem 23 Befriend a distant state while attacking a neighbour
In this case, the best state will be Singapore ,who one day in distant future, will be swamped with foreign population.

Stratagem 25 Replace the beams and pillars with rotten timber.
This stratagem worked in harmony with stratagem no.3 and 19.

Stratagem 26 Point at the mulberry only to curse the locust.
In this stratagem, strong developed nations can conspire together to sound a warning to a fast developing nation like Malaysia to abide and cater to their needs for this ICT industry.A clear case of the powerful to rule over the weak.This stratagem is similar to stratagem no.13.

Stratagem 27 Feigning foolishness
This stratagem applys best to foreign academicians and professionals,investors and executives. A genuine British academicians as academic supervisor shall feign foolishness to deceive a Malay sponsored studentso that the Malay student has no ideas whether he is on the right track or not. He feigned foolishness to lead the Malay students into some wild-goose chase research directions,wasting time and energy and then surprisingly signed to pass the Malay student's thesis after conspiring with his co-conspirators, another British academicians as external examiners. Foreign expats working in MSC can be instructed to feign foolishness so that Malaysian IT workers can be deceived into thinking that they are important personnel.

Stratagem 28 Remove the ladder after the ascent
This stratagem is very similar to stratagem no.22.Malaysian students will fall into foreigner dug-out pitfalls because of his misjudgement.

Stratagem 29 Put fake blossoms on the tree
This stratagem uses deceptive appearance to convince Malaysian government and students that those private foreign universities really emphasize quality education but in reality ,they already have dabbled and make major changes in subject knowledge they are going to teach.Fake IT advertisement vacancies in MSC can be placed on Malaysian newspaper to create a false sense that IT degrees are in hot demand.

Stratagem 30 Host and guests reversed
This stratagem will take effect,the moment, Malaysia government is force to admit foreign expatriates to come,live and work in Malaysia's MSC and foreign private universities.This new wave of foreign academicians will influence the important decison-making body in Malaysia in the far future.Education colonization has begun in initial phase.

Stratagem 31 Beauty Trap
Singapore uses this stratagem very efficiently as part of their social engineering plan which is to ensure many Malaysian chinese male students studying in Singapore to be "ensnare" with Singaporean wives.ASEAN scholarship is one such scheme.This scheme will make those bright Malaysian male professional scientists,engineers,etc unable to return to Malaysia to contribute to Malaysia's economic.

Stratagem 32 Empty city ploy
This stratagem works best with all those foreign multinational companies that make a false pretense of setting up their headquarters in MSC. They just have to make their office building seems "empty" to fool and confuse Malaysian goverment officials. There are over 900 plus MSC companies with employment of 22000 personnel. That will be an average of 40 plus personnel per company!!Moreover, about 68% of MSC companies are Malaysian-owned companies!!

Stratagem 33 Sow discord in the enemy's camp
Again, use those developed agents "sponsored Malaysian students" now academicians or goverment officials placed high above within the Malaysian government hierachy to work schemes against other loyal Malaysian goverment officials.Office politics is everywhere where there is a working place.

Stratagem 34 Inflict injury on oneselft to win enemy's trust
In this ruse, foreign investors really make some small sum of investment in MSC or Malaysia's ICT industry to win trust from Malaysian government officials but their real ulterior motive is to profit by Malaysia's weak tertiary education system.

Stratagem 35 Interlocking stratagems
This ruse is to entrap Mahathir into making his own blunder by making him to committ personally into MSC/Malaysia's ICT industry.Just like Cao Cao's personal order to have all his warships tied together with planks and chains before the Battle of Red Cliff commence.Remember,foreign investors who arrive on Malaysia soil are vulnerable and outnumbered.

Stratagem 36 Retreat is the best option
The classic example for multinational companies to cut their losses,retrench all Malaysian workers,closes the company or factory and move elsewhere....

Mahathir! oh!!Mahathir !!you sure have a lots lots of explaining to do to Malaysian peasant class(farmers,fishermens,rubeer tappers,palm oil workers,etc...)
I give you an "A" on infrastructure development but a "D" on human resource development!!!
You are just a leader who don't know how to treat good people right....

continue.....

[morpheous]

continue........


Sunday June 13, 2004
A global education at UEL
BY JAMIE KHOO

BRITISH education is often considered traditional and
even old-fashioned but not at the University of East
London (UEL). Set in an up-and-coming area of the
Docklands, UEL is breaking new ground through its
innovative approach to teaching and the introduction
of courses which deal directly with the creative
industry.

As a new university, UEL finds itself having to
compete against Cambridge, Oxford and the other London
colleges which have established themselves well in
both teaching and research. However, as a recent
Guardian newspaper report indicated, new universities
are on the rise both in overall rankings as well as in
specific subject league tables.

UEL has climbed steadily up the unofficial university
league tables put out by several British newspapers.
In the Guardian's 2004 university guide for example,
UEL was placed 39th overall.

The university prides itself on the strength of its
teaching and the value that is added to its students.
Explains its head of special projects South East Asia,
Prof Jim Graham: ?We are not an elitist institution ?
we take students from every level of society and we
add value to them. So while they might not be strong
students to start off with, we help them to develop
during their time with us.?

CREATIVE MIX: The innovative archtectural design and
varied cultural mix makes UEL's Docklands campus a
vibrant place to study.
As such, UEL has often received top marks for
inclusiveness and its social policy on equitability.
Prof Graham points out that inclusiveness at UEL also
means that the university embraces cultures and
ethnicities from all over the world.

?We have 15,000 students, 3,000 of whom are
international; 60% of our students are not English so
we have a very rich multi-cultural, multi-lingual,
multi-faith environment. You walk around corridors and
sit in canteens and you'll hear all languages
including Malay and Mandarin.?

London itself has a very high ratio of immigration ?
people from all over Asia, Europe, Africa and the
Caribbean continuously flock to the UK capital to make
their fortunes.

?Generations of immigrants have come in through the
docks and found success and we want to help them
continue that. The legacy of our polytechnic past is
that we are very much a part of the community and
industry,? says Prof Graham.

?Our view of education is also that it should be
personal and transformative, and it should ask the
question: 'How do you make real personal change or
global change?'?

Having attracted such a large number of students from
all over the world, the university is now making an
effort to raise its profile here. For example, UEL now
has a South-East Asia regional office based in Kuala
Lumpur which helps all students with their application
and preparation for going over to London.

Prof Jim Graham
UEL also has 25 partnerships with institutions around
Malaysia including Help Institute, Stamford College,
University College Sedaya International and Universiti
Teknologi Mara. It is also a contributor to the Star
Education Fund 2004.

?We concentrate on both the local as well as the
global at UEL. We're really trying to globalise our
students' understanding by providing a vibrant
international environment,? says Prof Graham.

?The idea of staying in one place for your education
is over. In South-East Asia, for example, you see
Vietnamese students coming to Malaysia for college
before going on to university with us in London. And
once you're there, you literally meet the rest of the
world at UEL.

?At the end of the day, this sort of international
cultural exposure is also an employability asset - the
ability to speak more than one language for example,
the people whom you meet, where you've been, how
you're interacting with other people.?

The lively ethos of the university is also carried
through to its portfolio of courses. UEL boasts an
impressive range of degrees in the creative industry
which prepare students directly for the working world.

The courses themselves are designed to move with the
times. For instance, there are no degrees for the
traditional sectors of engineering such as chemical or
mechanical engineering; instead they have electrical &
electronic or Internet engineering. ?We virtually have
no machinery left because we've moved on to a new age
of technology.?

And because the student population is so varied, with
graduates going back to their home countries across
the world, the curriculum for UEL courses is also very
international.

?Yes, the education at UEL still carries a British
style of teaching, but the content equips them well so
they can work anywhere in the world,? explains Prof
Graham. ?With courses in international marketing and
global media, for example, we ensure there are
international elements in our curriculum.?

UEL is situated in one of the most exciting cities in
the world. Though the cost of living can be very high,
Prof Graham reckons that it shouldn't be a factor to
deter students: ?Yes, it is more expensive here. All
right, you could choose to go to a little town outside
London and save ?1,000. You'd probably still have a
nice time but you won't have the British Museum, the
free art galleries, the free shows on South Bank, the
free entertainment, the music...

?Living in London is not like being in a typical
English city. It is the crossroads of the world!?


The Star Online > Education
Sunday June 6, 2004
More twinning options with New Zealand
A MEMORANDUM of Agreement (MoA) was signed last week
between Inti College and the University of Otago, New
Zealand, to promote the development of more
institutional linkages, collaborative projects and
student exchange programmes between the two
institutions.

Inti College president Tan Yew Sing and Prof Colin
Campbell-Hunt, associate dean of research at Business
School, University of Otago, signed the agreement at
the college's main campus in Bandar Baru Nilai.

The occasion was witnessed by New Zealand Education
Minister Trevor Mallard, who was here with an
education delegation to raise the profile of New
Zealand education and to meet with the education
ministers and related organisations.

In his speech, Tan said: ?We are glad to be associated
with the University of Otago which is renowned for its
leading-edge research in many fields. Since 1994, we
have sent about 800 students to New Zealand under the
advance standing arrangement and more than 50% of
these students have transferred to the university.?

SEALED DEAL: Prof Cambell-Hunt exchanging copies of
the signed document with Tan while Mallard looks on.
Inti College has enjoyed a strong partnership with the
university since 1992 but now, both institutions have
taken their collaboration a step further by inking the
MoA to offer twinning degree programmes in science and
commerce.

Under the new arrangement, students will be able to do
a 2+2 Bachelor of Applied Science in Molecular
Biotechnology; a 1+2 Bachelor of Science in Anatomy &
Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Human
Nutrition, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology
and Physiology; and a 1+2 Bachelor of Biomedical
Sciences in Drugs and Human Health, Functional Human
Biology, Human Reproduction and Development, Infection
and Immunity, Molecular Basis of Health and Disease,
and Nutrition and Metabolism in Human Health.

The Bachelor of Commerce programmes will be offered on
a 1.5+1.5 basis in the areas of Accounting, Economics
and Management, and on a 1.5+2 basis in Finance,
International Business and Marketing as well as a
1.5+1.5 Bachelor of Tourism.


Sunday April 25, 2004

Abertay scholarships up for grabs

ABERTAY University in Dundee, Scotland is providing
five scholarships for international applicants from
selected countries for postgraduate programmes.

Students currently resident or studying in Malaysia
have been selected as one of the groups to benefit
from the scholarships.

Abertay University has a long association with
Malaysia.

In addition to running programmes in partnership with
SEG International Bhd (SEGi) for many years Abertay
brought the Dare to be Digital computer games
development competition to Malaysia last year in
partnership with the British Council.

Abertay also established an information centre here
last year through WisDen EduPark Sdn Bhd, a company
established by Gracious Fernandez and Sharon Kaur,
both of them are Abertay MBA graduates.

''We have opened the Anniversary Scholarships to
potential students from countries that have been
instrumental in Abertay?s growth? says Abertay
business development director Paul Durrant.

There is a wide range of postgraduate programmes on
offer at Abertay including the Abertay MBA, a flexible
programme with pathways in Corporate Finance, Human
Resource Management, Marketing, Entrepreneurship or
International Management.

Two new MBA pathways are being included for next year,
Biotechnology and Electrical Power Engineering. There
are also opportunities to progress to the MBA through
a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administra-tion.

The sciences include MSc courses in Computer Games
Technology where Abertay was one of the first
universities in the world to provide taught programmes
in this area.

There are also a number of courses in the contemporary
and environmental sciences including Biotechnology,
Bioinformatics, Environmental Management and Water
Pollution Control. These reflect Abertay?s high (RAE
4) rating in research in these areas.

One of the scholarship criteria is interesting as
Abertay has included a requirement for applicants to
demonstrate how they would continue their association
with Abertay after graduation.

Undergraduate applicants also have an opportunity to
apply for bursaries worth ?1,000 (RM6,930) from
Abertay through WisDen. For more information, call
03-5637 0503, 016-699 0588 (Sharon), 016-6096 902
(Gracious) or e-mail: gray98@<hidden>


Sunday April 11, 2004

UEL to moderate UCSI degrees
By KAREN CHAPMAN
UNIVERSITY College Sedaya International (UCSI) has
appointed the University of East London (UEL) as the external moderator for its degree programmes with the
exception of medicine, pharmacy and nursing.
TOP MODERATOR: Ng and Prof Thorne exchanging documents
following the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of
Agreement to appoint the University of East London
as UCSI's external moderator, while Elli witnesses the event.
UCSI Vice-Chancellor and president Peter Ng said this
means UEL?s external examiner would attend the
university college?s examination board meetings to
scrutinise examination questions and the curriculum.
UEL Vice-Chancellor Prof Michael Thorne said one of
its representatives, Prof Jim Graham, head of
Special Projects for South-East Asia, would be based in Kuala
Lumpur over the next 12 months to oversee the process.
??The UCSI testamur will now carry the UEL logo as the
external moderator. This is a strategic partnership
which will make the UCSI degree more marketable
internationally.
??Employers will believe in the quality of our degrees
when we have an independent external moderator to
keep a close watch over the quality of graduates we
produce,?? Ng said at the recent signing of a
Memorandum of Agreement, witnessed by Umno Youth
education fund chairman Datuk Elli Mohd Tahir.
He said UCSI has built on its relationship with UEL
since it first introduced the latter?s Diploma in
Logistics. ??We are even talking about offering a
master?s programme in logistics, which we are
developing together,?? he added.
On its new campus in Cheras, Ng said: ?We anticipate
that the UCSI Connaught campus will be fully
operational by May.??

UCSI goes to Sumatra
UCSI has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoU) with
the Institute of Commerce and Management (ICM) in
Medan, Indonesia.
Set up in 2000, ICM provides high quality education
to the Indonesian population, particularly in North Sumatra.
With the agreement, ICM now offers various 2+1
programmes in partnership with UCSI, including degree
courses in Business Administration, Computing,Business Information and foundation programmes.
ICM, which is gearing towards a smart and active
learning environment using advanced facilities, is
happy that the agreement will boost its efforts to
provide quality education, said its managing director, Ooi Suk Lie.


Sunday April 11, 2004
Going for quality, not crackdown
The private education department?s new deputy director-general speaks to GAVIN GOMEZ about his plans to pursue quality in favour of punitive measures and work closely with LAN to speed up the approval process for courses.
SINCE first cracking the whip on errant private college operators under its Gempur dan Hebah (Attack and Publicise) blitz two years ago, the Private Education Department (JPS) has earned itself the reputation of being a strict enforcer of rules that regulate the industry.
As a result, there has been much ?cleaning up? and
those who flouted the law have been hauled up. While
some have applauded the move to penalise and
publicise the institutions which breached the regulations,others feel the department has been too harsh in its actions, leaving no room for negotiation or consultation. Under the leadership of former deputy education director-general (private education) Datuk Hassan Hashim, JPS? crackdown received much publicity ?newspapers were kept abreast of developments and played up the enforcement. This will, however, no longer be the focus of the department under a new head. ALIMUDDIN: Doing away with Gempur dan Hebah to make way for "quality".Last December, former Malay College Kuala Kangsar principal Alimuddin Mohd Dom was promoted to head JPS following Hassan?s retirement. The first three months of his tenure were spent learning the ropes. And Alimuddin's new tagline for JPS?
?Quality is our top priority. I want to have a cordial relationship with the private education industry.
The relationship must be positive as we have to work together to make Malaysia a centre of educational excellence,? he told StarEducation in a recent interview.
While maintaining that Gempur dan Hebah would go on,
he says that it would not be a priority and if anything, the publicity component would be kept to a minimum or done away with altogether.
?The action that we will take now is to discuss
matters with the institutions at fault,? he says,
adding that his door is always open to institutions.
The quality agenda, he says, will be prioritised in every aspect of private education. He wants bureaucracy in the department to be reduced to a minimum and the grouses of private institutions of higher learning dealt with appropriately. ?When I talk about quality, I mean expediting the process of approval and renewal of courses. That is on
our part. For the colleges and universities, they
have to ensure that their institutions and courses are of
top quality. We all have to play a role,? he says.
Although JPS?s portfolio covers all institutions ?from pre-schools to universities ? its main thrust has been higher education.
Its role now, however, is in limbo following the announcement that a Higher Education Ministry has been set up.
Alimuddin says his department would probably be
split into two ? one to cover private higher education and
the other to deal with private schools, pre-schools
and tuition centres. With 539 private institutions of higher learning ?
519 colleges, 11 universities, five university colleges and four foreign university branch campuses ? JPS will have its hands full monitoring them.
There are now over 40,000 foreign students in the
country. With the projected 50,000 foreign students
next year bringing in an annual income of RM1.5bil,
higher education is a growing revenue generator.
Local students account for about 300,000 of the
entire population in private institutions of higher learning.
After numerous meetings with his officers,individual college operators and the unions representing the industry, Alimuddin says he is aware of some of the problems plaguing the industry, the most common of which is the slow approval or renewal of courses.
According to him, JPS and the National Accreditation Board (LAN) are now discussing ways to streamline their efforts so that the process can be expedited.
?We are proposing that when an institution makes an application to run a course, both JPS and LAN would together meet the institution to discuss the viability of offering such a course. ?If we feel there is no demand for it or if there are any other problems then we can advise the institutions appropriately together. I want JPS and LAN to work on an approval simultaneously instead of passing things
from one to another,? Alimuddin says.
This way, he adds, would speed up the approval process as opposed to the current practice of getting approval from JPS, then LAN and followed by JPS again for endorsement.

Saturday April 10, 2004
Fong: Review education system to meet job needs SENAI: The Human Resources Ministry will brief the Cabinet on the need to review the country?s education system, especially at the tertiary level, to meet the needs and demands of the job market. Its minister Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn said many in the private sector were of the opinion the education system was outdated and not market-oriented.
He said that generally, the industry players felt the current system produced students who were only good in the classroom and examinations, but lacked motivation at the work place. Dr Fong said graduates were also no exception, with many shocked to find what they learnt while in university was totally different in the working world. ?The ministry is always open to suggestions, ideas and criticism and hopefully we can draw solutions to the problems,? he said. Dr Fong was speaking to reporters during his visit to the Flextronics Technology (M) Sdn Bhd plant here yesterday. He said industries, especially electronics and electrical manufacturing companies, faced a shortage of highly skilled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) workers and engineers. Dr Fong said that to make matters worse, Malaysian engineers and engineering graduates were in high demand in Singapore. He said that compared with Penang or Shah Alam, factories in Johor Baru experienced shortage of engineers as many preferred to work across the causeway.

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Wednesday April 7, 2004
Intel pushes IT in education
By CHAN LEE MENG
KUALA LUMPUR: South-East Asian countries need to ramp up their educational systems to prepare a future workforce which can compete in a world based on information technology, said Intel Corp chief executive officer Datuk Craig Barrett. Barrett, who visited Malaysia yesterday, urged the region?s governments to use technology to transform education and to prepare for a digital future. ?Technology, effectively integrated into the education process, opens up new possibilities of learning and gives young people the knowledge and skills to innovate and compete in an increasingly complex world,? he said. He also spoke highly of Malaysia?s five-year plan to integrate technology into all levels of the national education curriculum. He further encouraged the government to emphasise education investment in its budget plan, and to improve the IT infrastructure in schools. ?Together, government, educators and industry can transform technology, increase the use of technology for teaching, and improve the skills and competitive readiness of their future workforce,? Barrett said. Among the key elements required are training programmes to help teachers effectively integrate computer technology into classrooms to improve teaching, he added. Santa Clara, California-based Intel (www.intel.com) runs a programme called ?Teach to the Future? which aims to train teachers on the effective use of technology in education. The company claims to have trained more than 78,000 teachers in South-East Asia so far. Unsurprisingly, Barrett also touted the benefits of wireless technology and WiFi-enabled notebooks which he said will ?set a new standard for integrating technology into lesson plans.? Earlier this week the Education Ministry announced it would equip 35,000 teachers with notebooks using Intel?s Centrino mobile technology for an undisclosed sum.


Sunday April 4, 2004
Many issues in higher education Higher Education Minister Dr Shafie Mohd Salleh The creation of the Higher Education Ministry has got industry excited ? and institutions are optimistic that their wish list and grouses will finally be given serious consideration...........
Khoo Soo Peng, Taylor?s Education Group president Khoo Soo Peng
It's very good move as schools and higher education
are different in many aspects. The Higher Education Ministry is being set up at a time when Malaysia needs to establish itself as a regional education hub and move towards 2020.We need to ensure that the courses we offer are relevant to what industry needs, not just for students in our country but also for the foreign
students coming from our neighbouring countries.
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Quality education at low cost in 20-minute city
BY SIMRIT KAUR

Adelaide in South Australia offers foreign students a quiet, safe
and welcoming environment. It is touted as an ideal study destination
with smaller student numbers and a lower cost of living compared to other
Australian cities.
LANDMARK: The Brookman Building in the City East campus of the
University of South Australia.IMAGINE being welcomed to a new city by its Lord Mayor. In Adelaide,
South Australia, foreign students get to experience this firsthand.
It has become a tradition for the mayor to throw a welcome party at the
Town Hall for those coming to Adelaide for the first time.
This is possible as the foreign student numbers in Adelaide are
relatively small. There are only 9,712 international students of
which 5,645 attend university. Malaysians account for 18.2% of this number
and together with China and Hong Kong are the top source countries for
South Australia.Overall, South Australia gets only 4.3% of international university
students in Australia. However, Education Adelaide, a
semi-government agency which promotes Adelaide as a study destination for
international students, is determined to change the equation.
It is banking on two main factors ? accessibility and affordability.
Because of Adelaide's small size, major areas can be accessed on
foot.In fact, Adelaide is known as ?the 20-minute city?; everything is
available within a 20-minute walk. There are no traffic jams and the
distances students have to travel to get from one place to another
is very short.Education Adelaide chief executive Patrick Markwick-Smith says that the state has much to offer international students.?Cities like Melbourne and Sydney are filled to capacity. They are
crowded and the cost of living is high. Adelaide is small by
comparison and can accommodate more foreign students than what we have now.?
Almost all who come to South Australia enrol at its three
universities ? University of Adelaide (UoA) University of South Australia (UniSA)
and Flinders University. Each university has its own characteristics and
areas of specialisation.
Overall, Australia is still one of the top destinations for foreign
students. The Higher Education report 2003-2005 says there were 929,
639 students studying in Australian higher education institutions in
2003, an increase of 33,018.
The Australian university year is from late February to late June
Semester 1) and July to late November (Semester 2).
Most undergraduate courses begin in Semester 1 only but some are
available in Semester 2 as well. Postgraduate courses may begin in
either semester.Tuition fees differ from university to university but generally
students should expect to pay anything between A$12,000 (Arts) to A$18,000
(Science) for a degree programme per year.
RELAXED LIFESTYLE: Students in Adelaide can enjoy a cuppa outdoors
with wonderful weather all year round.
Cost considerationsThe recent appreciation of the Australian dollar has caused Malaysians still keen to pursue their tertiary education overseas to look for ways to stretch their ringgit.Studying in Adelaide may hold the answer. The city is reported to be he cheapest to stay in among major Australian cities.
Mark Hentschke, marketing operations manager for Education Adelaide
says that international students would pay 18% more to live in Sydney,
15% in Melbourne, 7% in Perth and 5% in Brisbane.
Weekly expenses for a student in Adelaide can be as low as A$200.
The breakdown would be: A$80- A$180 (rent), A$50- A$60 (food), A$15-
A$20 (gas & electricity) A$10- A$15 (transport) A$10- A$15 (telephone)
and about A$30- A$40 for other expenses.Transport is cheap too as international students get a concession
card to travel around on public transport. Not only that, there is also a
free bus service which plies the town centre.Although Adelaide is relatively small, many tourists, students and locals take advantage of the service which stops at all the major spots in Adelaide including the Adelaide Market, Victoria Square, Botanical
Garden, Museum and Art Gallery and the campuses of UoA and UniSA.
Malaysian and Asian food is readily available and halal meat and
sambal belacan can be bought at the Central Market which is at its busiest
on a Saturday morning.
While Adelaide lacks the bright lights and distractions of Sydney
and Melbourne, it compensates for it by holding various art and cultural
events. SA is known as the festival state and students who join
clubtwentysix get concession rates for dance, theatre and music
performances. For example, entry into 10 shows during the recent
Adelaide Festival of Arts would only cost A$20.
Former Malaysian Kim Kong, an international student advisor at
Eynesbury College, provides homestay places for eight international students.
Her husband, a former cook, now stays at home to look after the needs of
the students and they have two houses as each homestay student gets a
room to himself.
AFFORDABLE: Medical students Koh U-Jun (left) and Yap Sze Pheh say
that living in Adelaide is inexpensive.?There are plenty of Asian families for students to stay with here.
They prefer Asian families because of the food situation. Homestay
parents are expected to provide breakfast, lunch and dinner for students who
stay with them,'' she says.
Leow Weng Hume, 18, from Ipoh did his calculations before deciding
to come to Eynesbury College to do a certificate and diploma. He is
hoping to enter the University of South Australia. He found out about the
college from a friend who had also studied in the college.
?I can enter into the second year of a UniSA programme and I save
money and time by coming here first. I came here after my SPM. The
certificate only took me four months and the diploma eight months. The diploma
is considered equivalent to the first year of a degree programme.?
Weng Hume thinks that Adelaide is a safer place and more conducive
to studying than KL! ?There are too many distractions in KL.? He is
comfortable at his homestay ? he pays A$160 a week staying with a
Malaysian Chinese and food is not a problem. He says that
international students can get by on A$800 per month or less (excluding tuition
fees).
Flinders University student Sharifuzah Osman says that the cost of
accommodation is lower in areas around the university as it is
further away from the city.She only pays A$55 a week for a two-room unit which she shares with an Indonesian student. ?It is very cheap as it is unfurnished and the rent does not include utilities.?Nurjihan Abdullah, another Flinders student only pays A$140 a week for her unit which is big enough to accommodate her husband and children. ?Staying outside is much cheaper than on-campus accommodation.? Food on campus is relatively inexpensive too. A plate of fried noodles only costs A$5, she adds.
University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide (UoA) is one of Australia?s most
prestigious
>>>universities. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest university
in the country.It has 16,000 students across four campuses and there are currently more than 2,000 international students from 70 different countries. About 600 are Malaysians.
Regarded as one of Australia's top research universities ? it is a
member of the ?Group of Eight? ? UoA has produced three Nobel prize winners
including the current winner for Literature ? J.M. Coetzee.
UoA is considered strong in wine and food, biological sciences,
physical sciences, information technology and telecommunications,
environmental sciences and social sciences.
Prof John E Taplin, Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) says that
UoA is number one in income per capita and research output for South
Australian universities. ?We are a five-star university in terms of prestige,
status and demand to get in and we get more applications from high quality
students"/
HOME-COOKED: Weng Hume (far left) heats up his lunch in college.
A university survey of international students gave five reasons why
they chose UoA ? its long established reputation, quality of programmes,
excellence of academic staff, the traditional university feel of the
campus and the affordability of Adelaide the city, he added.

There are a large number of international students in its medicine
and dentistry programmes.Medical students are selected based on a personal qualities assessment test, face-to-face interview and academic results.
In 2000, a new curriculum was introduced for medicine. Traditional
subjects like Anatomy and Physiology are no longer taught separately
but integrated through the PBL (Problem Based Learning) approach.
Executive dean, Prof Peter Rathjen, says students are now given case
studies which they discuss in small groups in the first three years.
A case may continue to develop for a few weeks until the learning
objectives have been achieved by the student.
?This makes learning more contextual as in Years 4, 5 and 6 students
will be working on real patients in real time.?
He adds that through this method, students are more motivated to
learn, can apply what they learn and develop clinical reasoning ability.
PBL has now become the norm in most medical schools in Australia.
Second year medical student Koh U-Jun,19, says that learning this
way is less stressful for students and more meaningful. ?We can work on one
case for a few weeks. It is more relevant than memorising isolated facts
and regurgitating them in the exam,'' adds the Malaysian from Kuala
Lumpur.UoA has six residential colleges, located a mere 10-minute walk away
from the university's North Terrace campus. Most Asians, however, prefer
to stay off campus and rent a unit so they can cook for themselves.

University of South Australia
UniSA is the largest university in South Australia, and fifth
largest in Australia with 32,000 students studying over 300 programmes on six
campuses. 10,000 of them are international students studying both
onshore and offshore.Malaysian students number 1,458 but only 721 of them are actually in Adelaide, the rest are on offshore programmes, with most studying business related qualifications.It was founded in 1991 through the amalgamation of the South Australian Institute of Technology and the Magill, Salisbury and Underdale campuses of the South Australian College of Advanced Education.
UniSA offers more than 300 programmes and is the only South
Australian university to offer degrees in medical radiation, occupational
therapy, pharmacy, physiotherapy, podiatry, environmental toxicology,
marketing and journalism.
It is a member of the Australian Technology Network, a grouping of
five Australian universities, comprising UniSA, University of Technology
Sydney, RMIT University, Queensland University of Technology, and
Curtin University of Technology.

Dr Anna Ciccarelli, executive-director and vice-president
(international and development) says it is a top-ranked university for innovative
>>>research linked to industry and is also the largest provider of
offshore education in Australia.UniSA was also one of the first universities to adopt a set of principles called Graduate Qualities ? attributes that employers look for. ?All universities would claim to produce graduates with these qualities
but we have incorporated it into our teaching and learning programme,''
says Dr Ciccarelli.The seven qualities include producing graduates who are effective problem solvers, responsible, can work autonomously and collaboratively, and have good communication skills.
UniSA is the top choice of Tafe (Technical and Further Education)
students as 93% choose to continue their studies here, says Prof
Bruce King, director of the university's Flexible Learning Centre.
An advanced online learning environment sets UniSA apart. UniSA also established the first online career guidance and placement services
for students ? Experiencebank.All students at UniSA are provided with round-the-clock use of a state-of-the-art online environment to assist with learning and communication. This minimises the time they spend on administrative matters.
?These facilities can be used even by people with low IT proficiency
through the use of wizards. Our website was voted the most visited
education website in Australia in December 2003 and January 2004.?
In Malaysia, UniSA is often associated with Sepang Institute of
Technology (SIT) with which it has a very successful 2+2 partnership
in Pharmacy and a 3+0 programme in Computer and Information Science.

Flinders University.
Flinders University is located about 25 minutes drive from Adelaide
and has 14,800 students studying in a single, purpose-built 180 hectare
campus. It is often dubbed the ?students' university? because of its
beautiful setting.Flinders offers more than 160 undergraduate and postgraduate
courses. International students make up 10% of the on-campus student
population.It was established in 1966 and takes its name from British navigator
Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the South Australian
coastline in 1802.The university is renowned for its Arts programmes namely Psychology, Education, and Literature and has won several national teaching
awards.In 2002, the Australian Science and Mathematics School was built. It
was the first school in Australia to be fully integrated with a
university. Cutting-edge teaching methods for both subjects are piloted here.
Flinders four-year Bachelor of Biotechnology (Honours) degree is
highly rated and features in a 2003 survey of Australian biotechnology
degree programmes. ?In the review, we came out in the top six,'' says Dr
Fiona Young from the Department of Biotechnology.
She adds that the department only takes in 30-40 students every year
and that it is as competitive to get into biotechnology as it is to
study medicine. A science background is not required.?We cover all areas including medical, pharmaceutical, environmental, agricultural and industrial biotechnology. So students who are not clear of what specialisation they want to go into can tailor their degree to a specific field later.?Postgraduate and undergraduate students must do a course on Enterprise Management to familiarise themselves with the business part of biotechnology.?We learn how to write a business plan, budget, and study regulatory laws. Being from a Science background, learning about finances and accounting was useful as this is what we will face in the real world,'' says Indian student, Vivek Viyayraghavan, 23.Flinders also has a graduate entry medical programme ? one of the few in Australia. It enables students with an undergraduate degree (in any discipline) to enter a four-year medical programme. It was the first university in Australia to introduce it.The university has excellent on-campus accommodation for 530 students in University Hall and fully furnished townhouses. The average cost is A$180 per week, says resident tutor Cheng Yee Ting, a Singaporean undergraduate.?This includes all meals from Monday to Friday, excluding weekends.'' As a resident tutor, Yee Ting gets to stay for free and only has to pay A$60 for food.In return for free accommodation, Yee Ting generally acts as a liaison person between the university administration and residents and organises activities for students who stay on campus.To ensure a good mix of nationalities, there is a 50:50 ratio of Australian and international students on campus. However, demand is high and there is a waiting list to get in. First year international students are given priority.


Sunday March 21, 2004
Honour for Utar chief
BY JAMIE KHOO
UNIVERSITI Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar) president Tan Sri Dr Ng
Lay Swee has received the Queensland University of Technlogy?s
highest award in recognition of her contributions to education and
ties between Malaysia and Australia.
The Honorary Degree of Doctor, which has only been given to
two other people outside of Australia, was conferred on Ng by QUT
Vice-Chancellor Prof Peter Coaldrake at its graduation
ceremony in Kuala Lumpur for Malaysian graduates last Sunday.?It is a very rare honour, and very rare international event,
and is not given out very often,? said Prof Coaldrake.
?We decided to confer this award upon Tan Sri Ng because of
her academic and professional contribution and profile. It is
also in recognition of the important role that she has played in
developing links between Utar and QUT, her contribution to
Malaysian education and her work with Utar.?
Said Ng: ?It was indeed a surprise to get this award. I do
what I do as a service to the community and have never really aimed
for anything like this. I?m very honoured, and am inspired to
work harder for the university.?
Ng was principal of Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman from 1996 to
2002 before becoming visionary president and chief executive
officer of Utar.Before that she was strongly involved in high profile
research at both McGill University in Canada and Florida State University
in the United States. She also had the rare and valuable
opportunity of working as a post-doctoral research assistant to the late
Nobel Laureate Prof R.G.W. Norrish of Cambridge University.
She was also awarded the Canadian National Research Council
post-graduate scholarship and the Canadian National Research
Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award.
Since its inception in 2002 Utar has developed strong links
with QUT in research, in the areas of information communication
technology and biotechnology.Ng is keen that this continues to grow: ?We want to look into course development, which has been going on for quite some
time already, and into conducting more courses together.?
Added Prof Coaldrake:?I hope our linkages get stronger, in
both directions. We would like to encourage staff and students to
come to QUT, and to send our staff and students to Utar. We see
this not just as a link to a specific institution, but also with Malaysia.?

Sunday March 21, 2004
Groomed for the working world by Systematic
BY JAMIE KHOO
Danny Chee, Senior Chief Executive, Systematic College
GROOMING classes which teach students how to wear their
hair, how to colour-code their blazers, and which way to point their
toes when sitting cross-legged are just one of Systematic
College?s many ways of preparing students for the working world.
The Systematic group of colleges, which has branches
throughout Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, is not just about
academics but endeavours to produce students who can go
straight into a job, with practical knowledge of the industry.
Systematic College academic dean Stanley Yeow, who was a
Systematic College student himself, says that almost all the
lecturers bring their individual, practical training into
the classroom, so that when students come into a course they
really experience what it is like in the industry.
Oliver Darren Wilfrid, a first year accounting diploma
student and Star Education Fund Scholarship recipient, says: ?The
lecturers bring what?s happening in Malaysia currently into
the classroom. Learning about things that are going on around us
has helped us gain more general knowledge.?
Additional seminars offered to students after finishing
their basic degree prepares them for the next step in the job
hunt. Topics on how to climb the corporate ladder and how to
attend interviews, for example, aim at getting graduates to the top
of their career fields.
In line with the college?s objective to expose its students
to as much of the ?real working world? as possible, a Systematic
College branch is situated in the heart of the Petaling Jaya
SS2 commercial hub. The college is highly accessible for
students, with nearby bookshops, cybercafes, food stalls, and a
photocopying shop, which is vital for all students, says
Oliver.
Similarly, Systematic Business Training Centre is located in
a bustling area ? Petaling Street ? where many students join
the college on a walk-in basis. Six other colleges, in Klang,
Johor, Penang and Kuching, make Systematic courses available to
students around the country.Apart from what can be learnt at its colleges in Malaysia, Systematic also ensures that its students have the
opportunities of a foreign education.

At present, its strongest, and most popular courses are the
Master in Business Administration with the University of the
Sunshine Coast, Australia; business related degrees with the
University of Abertay, Dundee (UAD) in Scotland; and more
recently, the doctorate in Business Administration with the
University of Newcastle, Australia.

FOR ALL THE STUDENTS: The active environment which
Systematic provides gives its students countless opportunities for
higher education
Systematic is continuously looking to expand its profile of
subjects. Most recently, it extended its business courses
with James Cook University in Australia to include Human Resource
Management, International Business and International
Management.
Says its senior director of operations Danny Chee: ?We are
trying to bring more twinning programmes with foreign universities
into Malaysia. We realise that it can be very expensive for
students to go overseas and we want to bring foreign courses over
here as they will really benefit students.
?If you compare the cost, for example, one year of studying
in Malaysia would be about RM15,000 while going to the UK is
almost RM100,000; the US is about RM120,000 and Australia is about
RM80,000.?
At the same time, the range of qualifications and degrees
offered within the college allows students to pursue their higher education all the way to doctorate level.
?Students can do their diploma, and go on to do a bachelor
degree courses. After that they can do a master's, and finally, a
doctorate. We want students to know that they don?t have to
go overseas or anywhere else to get a doctorate, they can do it
all right here!? says Chee.
And students gain not only a foreign education, but also get
exposure to foreign cultures right here on home ground by
mixing with foreign students from China, Bangladesh, Myanmar,
Indonesia and the Maldives.Systematic College is also working with Universiti Industri Selangor (Unisel) in a partnership which will hopefully
bring the college up to university status.
Students can then stand a chance of getting joint degrees
from both Unisel and foreign universities through twinning
programmes.Yeow says the college is very business-oriented, a plus
point for aspiring accountants. Accounting graduates from the UAD
programme, for example, are exempted from 13 papers from the
Chartered Institute of Management Accountant (Cima)
examinations. Students go directly to the last stage of the course and
need take only four final exams to obtain their professional qualification.
Amidst stiff competition in the private education sector,
Systematic College has plans to build a 10-acre campus in
Kota Damansara, Selangor, which can accommodate over 10,000
students, making it one of the biggest colleges in the country.
All Systematic colleges will relocate to the new campus,
while the old branches will remain as learning centres.
The campus will be fully equipped with a range of new
facilities, including a multipurpose hall, badminton and basketball
courts, Olympic-size swimming pool, hostels and, as the icing on the
cake, a clock tower.
There are also proposals for a purpose-built section
specifically for adult education, which will cater for postgraduate
studies, including master?s and doctorate programmes.
The Systematic Group of Colleges is contributing 12
scholarships worth RM261,855 to the Star Education Fund 2004.
For application forms or for more information, log on to
http://thestar.com.my/education/colleges/scholarships.html.
You can also send a stamped (40 sen) self-addressed envelope
(25cm x 30cm) to The Secretary, The Star Education Fund, c/o
Star Publications (M) Bhd, P.O. Box 9116, Kelana Jaya, 47301
Petaling Jaya, Selangor, to obtain an application form.
For enquiries, call 03-7967 1388 ext 1642.

Thursday February 12, 2004
ICT-literate society needed
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia needs a society with
high literacy in information and communication technology for it to be
transformed into a fully developed country in 2020, Universiti Tunku
Abdul Rahman council chairman Datuk Seri Dr Ling Liong Sik said.He said an ICT-literate society was needed to sustain a knowledge-based economy (k-economy) and to develop and enhance information or knowledge stock within the Malaysian society.
The new economy is about new engines of wealth creation balanced by social empowerment and sustainable development, and underpinned by the nurturing of a highly ICT-literate society.We are looking at ICT as a strategic lever and an enabler of development to improve the global positioning of Malaysia, he said at the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Utar and Microsoft Malaysia here yesterday.
Under the agreement, Microsoft will provide Utar with curriculum resources, training for lecturers, as well as arranging for Microsoft technology experts to be guest speakers at Utar.Ling said Malaysia's efforts towards a k-economy
required two strategic propellers: technology as the enabler and people as the greatest resourceof which technology and knowledge would be a prerequisite, and a qualified and trained manpower resource the concomitant.
He said the Utar-Microsoft collaboration was a step in the right direction at the right time.In her speech, Utar president and chief executive officer Tan Sri Dr Ng Lay Swee said the dawn of the ICT age would see the global economy developing into a k-economy, where competitiveness and efficiency would be driven by technology, skills and innovation.In a k-economy, high technology and
science-based industries will generate jobs requiring tertiary education, she said.

Education conspiracy?check this out!

Industry-Private Education-Government conspiracy!!!Warning!! Posted
9-23-2003 17:59
Be very careful about this conspiracy!!Foreign investors or CEOS or
professionals will convince Malaysia government to invest in IT
industry and now the latest is Biotechnology.They have hidden motives in doing
so.
Look at all the private education institutions in collaboration with
foreign universities.Just check all those 3+0 twinning courses.Many
are offering IT& Business courses.Even the British Chevening scholarship
is for IT,Business and Biotechnology courses.Monash Universitiy Malaysia is
offering biotechnology degree course too. Even the most corrupted
Malaysian Chinese educationist ex-Tunku Abdul Rahman College Principal,Tan Sri Dr.Ng Lay Swee now UTAR's president want to have a "jump start" to offer biotechnology degree courses at UTAR.
The foreigners are benefitting from these education venture.Billions
of ringgit poured out from Malaysia because of education alone.They are
here to plunder and pillage your hard earned savings.There are no assurance
they are investing in MSC's IT industry or Biotechnology industry in
Dengkil.Biotechnology is a very wide,vague and hard to define, so is
Information Technology. So there is a danger that "foreign fake academicians" will stuff useless,easy and obsolete subjects into the IT and Biotechnology
degree courses.
Even the IAP members dare to propose to Mahathir to set up an
university for IT courses.They are all pulling "wayang show" to push young
Malaysian students tide to study IT.Mahathir has been deceived or duped by these foreigners.So is Badaw. The Chinese government can see through this
ruse when Badawi proposes closer-cooperation in IT and Biotechnology areas
between Malaysia and China.
We don't see Japanese researchers with PhDs working and teaching in
MMU. Japan and France are countries built based on meritocracy system. They
are going to send their "mediocre academicians" as faculty to serve in
Malaysia-Japan and Malaysia-French universities.
Many "fake Malay academicians" coming out from local universities to
set up colleges and university colleges are "Mahathir's sponsored students"
and they all graduated from UK universities. They have been "developed"
and converted to become "traitor" by the British to protect their foreign
interest(foreign degree courses offered in Malaysia).Remember the
movie "The Recruit"..how CIA recruited and developed their assets and
Malaysia Government is spending billions sponsoring many bright, young Malay students to be "developed and educated" in UK.All of them are walking
into British's pitfalls and traps.
Najib another foreign "asset" who graduated from a UK university as
education minister opened the Malaysia 's education door wide open by
allowing foreign universities to be set-up in Malaysia. Mimos chief
and MDC chief too have been "hoodwinked" by foreigners into setting up IT R&D center. This will divert more young Malaysians to study IT courses.
Be warned!!Do not let your children's education path to be sidetracked
into studying useless knowledge just because the foreign investors claimed
that this is new industry which will be the next engine of growth for
Malaysia.
No matter what kind of technology term they can think of in the
future...
Just stick to traditional courses offered by UM back in the 60s,70s,
80s and early 90s. Learn from China and India.Every year, there are so
many young Chinese and Indian students graduated from China's/India's top universities who further their PhD study in US universities with
financial aid.They all don't go to US for IT or Biotechnology couses.
There is no short cut path to become a developed nation.....

IAP Members
IAP Members (2003) : Dr Stan Shih (Chairman & CEO) The Acer Group
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KUALA LUMPUR [6 March 2003]:
Acer Sales and Services Sdn Bhd and Informatics Group Malaysia held a
press conference recently to announce their joint promotion campaign
known as "Acer-Informatics Exclusive Privilege Campaign". For over a decade, now Informatics Group Malaysia and Acer Sales and Services Sdn Bhd have entered into a special smart partnership. In the partnership, there is an understanding between the two parties that Informatics gives preference to using Acer brand products over others, while Acer offers special privileged prices and reliable support service to Informatics.
In the press conference it was announced that there would be an
extension to that smart partnership, in that, either party would promote the products and services of the other party. Such extension from just a customer-supplier relation to one that promotes each other's products
and services generates a greater synergy for the partnership. To promote each other's products and services, they have devised and launched the "Acer-Informatics Exclusive Privilege Campaign". The campaign
involves an "exchange" of vouchers of the two parties. Acer has already included an Informatics course voucher worth RM1,000
in every box of their desktop, notebook and handheld computers.
Purchasers of these Acer products can redeem the Informatics course vouchers for course fee at Informatics colleges and centres. They can even share the
course vouchers with their friends and loved ones.
In return, Informatics is giving out Acer discount vouchers to
students who enrol for new course at its colleges and centres. The Acer
discount vouchers, each worth RM450, can be used to purchase the Acer desktop,notebook and handheld computers.
Although the validity of both the vouchers will expire on 31 June
2003, due to the anticipated good response, it is expected that the joint
promotion campaign will be extended before this date.
A memorandum of understanding was signed during the press conference
signifying the expansion of collaboration between Acer and
Informatics in Malaysia. Signing on behalf of Acer was Thye Wei Hong, Head of
Business Development Department, and on behalf of Informatics was C S Cheong,
Assistant Director of Marketing and Public Relations.


Friday January 16, 2004
Cabinet nod for Sepang to be made municipality
KUALA LUMPUR: The Cabinet has agreed to elevate the
Sepang District Council's status to that of a municipality.
Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Seri Ong Ka
Ting, announcing this yesterday, said this would make the council very
important as it would cover the KL International Airport, Cyberjaya and
areas earmarked for the development of new technologies, information
technology and biotechnology.I congratulate the Selangor government which succeeded in its application for the status of Sepang council to be turned into a
municipal council, he said after the Barisan Nasional supreme council meeting
yesterday. He said the Government would decide on the date for the status
change. On the appointment of the president of the municipal
council, Ong said his ministry would need to discuss this with the Selangor
Government. He said the status change would also need the royal
assent.

Wednesday March 17, 2004
Two foreign students cheated by bogus college
From the Chinese Press
CHINA Press reported that two students from China were cheated
of RM21,500 by a computer company, which purportedly offered
twinning courses with Cambridge University.
The two victims, identified as Cheong, 26, and Chan, 25, said
they had paid more than RM10,000 each to the ?college? in Kepong and
started their studies last August.
Cheong said he enrolled as a computer student in the ?college?
which, among other things offered courses in languages and
business.
He said he became suspicious when he found that the tuition
fees were ?flexible? and some students had bargained for cheaper
fees.Citing an example, he said the tuition fees for the IT course
was RM24,000 but some of his course mates got promotional price
which was lower than RM20,000 after bargaining with the college
administrator.
He also said that the man would close all the doors and windows
when classes were on, saying that it was for the students' security.
Cheong later found out at the Registrar of Companies that the
''college'' was just another computer company, which had not
registered with the Education Ministry and operated as a
college without a licence.He said his request for a refund from the college was rejected.
MCA public services and complaints department legal adviser
Theng Bok urged the operator of the company to settle the case at the department within two days, failing which he would lodge a
police reportPAS vice president Datuk Dr Hassan Ali told Sin Chew Daily that the party would set up a Chinese university if it formed the next
government, when he was asked how the party would help
non-Muslims.He said the university would focus on Chinese cultural studies,
and academics from China would be brought in if needed.

Around 80% of the students live on-campus and NIC president
Tengku Shamsul Bahrin says this prepares them for the next
phase of their life.?If Malaysia wants to be known as a centre for excellence, we must be prepared to train students for the international
arena,? says Tengku Shamsul adding that private education in the
country has taken a step forward and is no longer a second choice
for students seeking a recognised degree.
?In the working world you meet all kinds of people and you
must know how to deal with them,?? he adds .
Tengku Shamsul, who is also president of the Malaysian
Association of Private Colleges and Universities (Mapcu),
believes that Malaysia should look beyond the local market.
?Many students are still taking up programmes that are
?safe? like medicine, law and business, but there is a need in new
areas such as the biosciences and mass communications.?


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Education path can be sabotaged and short-circuited. Young Malaysian sponsored students' minds can be weakened by absorbing useless, obsolete knowledge. Knowledge with little academic values like ICT, Management Technology and all the "technology" courses can be designed by foreign academicians to poison their minds. The billions of ringgit for sponsorship purpose can be used by foreign governments to create jobs for their own mediocre academicians or to create bogus academician jobs. These "fake foreign academicians" will then be assigned to "teach, educate, guide, train and develop" those sponsored Malaysian students. These young sponsored Malaysian students who at such a young age (late teens to mid twenties) can be easily "diperbodohkan dan ditipu" by foreign academicians on their home soil. Any foreign academician can tell a Malay PhD student to do maintenance work or collect data in his laboratory for years and then awards him with a PhD degree. Ask any government officials in charge of sponsorship/scholarship in JPA, Mara, Telekom, Petronas , etc..and they will tell you that, Malaysia Government has no right to dictate who are the British educators that are going to teach these young Malaysian sponsored students. Even Stephen Hawking himself, a prominent British physicist has no right to choose who is going to be his PhD academic supervisor. If you, Mahathir spends RM$100,000 to sponsor a Malays student, wouldn't Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew too can pay RM$100,001 to the foreign academicians to have this young Malay student's education to be sabotaged and short-circuited. Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew can easily get his RM$100,001 from selling cheap, raw water to ships that stopped by at his port. Yes, cheap, raw water from Semenanjung Malaya to be used as "mind weapon" against all young Malaysian sponsored students.
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There are four fates that shall befall on these young Malaysian sponsored students. The first fate, in initial bonding period, they are "pawns" used to replace and take over jobs' responsibilities of their sponsors' opponents who are vying for power in office politics or to replace those old, inactive, rebellious sponsored students. Mahathir used them to replace old, non-bumiputra Malaysian academicians in public-universities. The second fate, in the intermediate bonding period, they shall be exploited to the fullest to generate profits and support for their sponsors. A period where they are ordered to do "dirty works" (if needs to) for their masters and a chance for them to show their loyalty and obedience. Mahathir used them (Malay Professor Kangkung) to teach at public universities so that degrees can be awarded to the sons and daughters of Malaysia's peasant classes, thus winning their support for the general election. Liong Sik used them to set-up more academic courses in Tunku Abdul Rahman College, attracting more young Malaysian Chinese students and therefore extracting more government funding and of course, more money flowing out to fill foreigners' coffers. The most basic grass-root supporters that are to be "recruited" into UMNO or MCA are not young, professional in their mid 20s but young Malaysians students (SPM leavers) through government's sponsorship and scholarship. The third fate, after a long term period, those sponsored students that demonstrated loyalty, obedience and played active roles in supporting their sponsors shall be handpicked and promoted to become leaders, CEOs, top management executives for Mahathir's heavy industries venture like Renong, DRB-Hicom, Proton, MAS, Perwaja and many government enterprises. The creation of Mahathir's cronies. Mahathir even "forced" all the academicians in public universities to sign a declaration of loyalty to him. But there is another dangerous fate for these sponsored students. A fate that is beyond Mahathir's and Liong Sik's expectations. The foreigners too shall recruit them and use them to work to protect their interests within Malaysia's soil. Traitors, Spies and infiltrators, they are to become. For the clear and present danger to Malaysia shall come from within and not from outside.
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well?..phew!..enough for today...recomers can connect all the dots/quotes/articles/links above they will...
more, morpheous will share and comment if time permits...
any comments,anyone??serious discussions,pls... 8)

are you all entertained? from Maximus in movie"The Gladiator"

[chenchow]

morpheous, please, no more full text. Provide the link. Thank you.

[pandaboy]

morpheous, please, no more full text. Provide the link. Thank you.

yeah..it's too long to read it here too...
maybe next time u should do a summary...and then post the link below...
now u're wasting ur time and effort..not many ppl like to read long threads....

by the way , how come no discussion about this topic?

[chenchow]

I believe that it is too long and too few are motivated enough to read the whole thing.

I agree with pandaboy that you should provide the summary, and perhaps some of your opinions...

[The_Observer]

<pays homeage to morpheous>

[Randomphantom]

Err.. which foreign nation would want to pick a bone with our local tertiery education..?

(Just breezing thorugh) I guess this article talks about how to exploit our nation's tertiery education demands, and how it is actually conducted now. Some parts reek of generalisation/prejudice though. Lets sell this to Singapore ... oh wait, I think they already know too much of it
:P

[morpheous]

randomphantom,
history lessons again...say morpheous.
what is the root cause the downfall of all europe colonial powers..?
who colonized india and humbled the mighty Ching empire in 19th century?

let us play chess game,shall we?you,mahathir/malaysia..you always sponsor malay students to UK unis in 60s,70s,80s,...which means you always move your knight forward in opening moves.
morpheous plays the british,morpheous moves pawn for your knight to capture..see..?your knight captures the pawn (msia students send overseas..)and got lured out to the side ..fallen into a trap/pitfall..out of position..while morpheous buys time to develop morpheous's pieces....(young britons generations..)

little task of revamping/retuning of own education system to meet foreign students' demands..a simple scheme this is...
silver for silk and tea, then opium for tea and silk...........now how about "education/knowledge" for msia's manufactured goods...lucrative business this is...

what is so difficult about this scheme/task.....,considering they can transport thousands of their prisoners&convicts across vast oceans to australia and NZ in the past.....