(© lumaxart.com | Flickr) AS an editor, I’ve sometimes had to remind journalists who merely copy and paste from a press release that they are paid to think, question, and make sense of the issues they are writing about. A journalist’s role is not to be a stenographer. It’s to be a public intellectual that […]
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Students penalised for protesting ISA
By Gan Pei LingPETALING JAYA, 23 June 2009: Only one of the seven students suspended by their universities in 2001 for allegedly participating in an unlawful demonstration managed to complete his university education. National Mosque (Public domain)The seven, who were all from public universities, were arrested by the police during an anti-Internal Security Act rally on 8 June […]
KPI to be extended to private varsities too
KUALA LUMPUR, 7 May 2009: The Key Performance Index (KPI) will also be extended to the private institutions of higher learning to monitor their performance so that the Higher Education Ministry can identify the weaknesses of the private universities. Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said efforts to identify the weaknesses existing in […]
Malaysian universities not keen to invite Shirin Ebadi
By Deborah LohKUALA LUMPUR, 11 Dec 2008: Malaysia might miss its chance to hear the first Muslim woman Nobel Peace laureate speak. None of the Malaysian universities appear keen to invite Shirin Ebadi, despite the Foreign Ministry retracting its ban on the Iranian lawyer and human rights activist from speaking here. Ebadi was to deliver a keynote […]
Quality of human capital determines nation’s worth
KUALA LUMPUR, 24 Nov 2008: In this era of innovation and discovery, a nation’s worth is no longer judged by the size of its physical resources, but by the quality if its human capital, said Datuk Seri Najib Razak. The Deputy Prime Minister said that the quality of a nation’s human capital was determined by […]
Focus on intellectual infrastructure says Najib
KUALA LUMPUR, 13 Nov 2008: Datuk Seri Najib Razak has called on universities to focus more on developing the “intellectual infrastructure” and not just physical infrastructure to make them “a centre of learning of the liberated and inquisitive minds”. Saying that he did not subscribe to the idea of emphasising on physical infrastructures, the deputy […]
