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IS OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM IN FREE FALL?

Leave a Comment / Malaysia's education system, unemployed university graduates, world university rankings /

Are parents partly responsible for why their children can’t get a job after they graduate from university? Is that why our local grads are picky about their first jobs, and expect a good salary when they have no working experience or employable skills? Remember those days back in the 1950s and 60s when we had […]

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CHANGING EDUCATION PARADIGMS

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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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