There is more to higher education than ROI
From Sivabala Naidu I write in response to Professor Geoffrey Williamss interesting article published in FMT on June 20, 2024, with the attention-grabbing headline, Dont waste money on university....
View ArticleSeorang Budin tak ada SPM dan guru kaunseling lawa
Baru-baru ini, dalam satu acara yang dihadiri ramai penjawat awam dari pelbagai agensi, saya didudukkan di sebuah meja yang antara lain ada pegawai pendidikan daerah, guru kaunseling, dan seorang...
View ArticleBila bendera tidak jadi keutamaan
Saat gemilang ketika Azizulhasni Awang berdiri megah dikalungkan pingat perak acara keirin di podium Velodrom Izu, Tokyo pada 8 Ogos 2021, lencana di dada kirinya terpampang bendera Malaysia dengan...
View ArticleHow Albanese, Wong pick winners, losers in ‘quiet’ diplomacy stakes
From Frank Pangallo I am thrilled for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (who has landed back home in Australia, a free man for the first time in 12 years) as I was with Cheng Lei (who was imprisoned by...
View ArticleDon’t lose out on long-term gains by withdrawing funds early from EPF
From Tan Peck Leong In recent times, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has seen a significant withdrawal of RM7 billion from the newly created Account 3, raising concerns about the financial future...
View ArticleRethinking the education blueprint
The above represents the first act of a long discourse that would hopefully result in a more complete undertaking. We are at a tipping point in our society. If we do not act, then we would have all...
View ArticlePanas bertambah panas
Bagi Stuart Ramalingam, CEO Liga Bola Sepak Malaysia atau MFL, insiden membabitkan Faisal Halim dan Akhyar Rashid tidak menjejaskan imej Liga Malaysia. Setuju atau tidak? Sebelum itu, imbas secara...
View Article5 things on the best and worst after group stage at Euros
Best story Georgia on my mind On a night when Cristiano Ronaldo sulked, Georgia celebrated. This is the best day in the lives of all Georgians, cried star man Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. Theyd beaten...
View ArticleNoor Farida’s pivotal role in release of labour camp detainees
From P Ramasamy It was with much sadness that I came to know that my friend Noor Farida Ariffin had passed away at the age of 76. She was one of the co-founders of G25, an influential group of Malay...
View ArticleIs it time to boycott university ratings?
Overall 64% of Malaysian universities involved in the QS Stars ratings or QS World Rankings have scores which are too low to be recorded. Commercial ratings and rankings are primarily designed as a...
View ArticleWhy politicians don’t lie
As I lie down on my bed, eyes half closed, the face of Dr Mahathir Mohamad flits past, followed closely by that of Lim Guan Eng. As I wonder why the images of these two upstanding men appear in my...
View ArticleHow to assuage public fury, social unrest over targeted fuel subsidies
From Sheriffah Noor Khamseah Syed Ahmad Idid Fossil fuel subsidies are in the spotlight in Malaysia and several other countries around the world, a testimony of the public and political debate on the...
View ArticleAssange is free, but are we?
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has finally regained his freedom, but for those of us who were never imprisoned, how free are we really?
View ArticleCubaan baik, Tuan Ibrahim
PRK DUN Sungai Bakap akan berlangsung kurang seminggu lagi tetapi di sesetengah majlis ceramah Perikatan Nasional (PN) dilaporkan ada lebih ramai anggota polis daripada penduduk setempat. Ini bukan...
View ArticleSyed Husin Ali’s finest hour
From Terence Netto Syed Husin Ali, steady tribune of socialist causes in a lifetime of service to them, has died at the age of 87. A death in the ninth decade of life cannot be described as untimely....
View ArticleContingency plans for tourist accidents and incidents
From YS Chan Yesterday morning, a tour bus travelling down from Genting Highlands overturned and landed on its side when negotiating a bend. On board were 21 people comprising the driver, two tourist...
View ArticleIran’s election could bring lasting Middle-East peace
If the US plays its cards right, the victory of an Iranian peacemaker in the polls could well permit lasting peace in the Middle East.
View ArticleKeep focus on education for life, not fanciful notions of multiversity
A term coined by a Berkeley don Furthermore, the idea of the multiversity has been around since the 1960s. Clark Kerr, the first chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley coined the term...
View ArticleWrong to use public funds for privatised airports
Investment, trade and industry minister Tengku Zafrul Azizs recent announcement that the government intends to enhance the Penang International Airports (PIA) infrastructure to facilitate...
View ArticleWhy young Europeans are embracing the far right
June’s European Parliament elections showed that many young voters have shifted to the far right, enabling Euroskeptic, anti-immigrant, and anti-establishment parties to make significant gains.
View Article