creativity

ARE OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS KILLING CREATIVITY?

Eric Johansson. Who? He’s the Photoshop wiz kid behind all those incredibly realistic photo images that were circulating on the internet last year. Digital photography has become increasingly popular with retirees. Many of my retired friends have taken up the hobby seriously. They attend classes, and think nothing of spending thousands of ringgit on cameras […]

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CHANGING EDUCATION PARADIGMS

I cringe whenever I hear our ministers and politicians talk about making our country the centre of educational excellence. Our varsities have consistently fared poorly in the World Universities Ranking (WUR). University Malaya, our premier institute of higher learning, has dropped to 207th in the 2010 WUR, UPM to 319th, UTM 320th and UKM 309th. Yet with

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