Comments on: PhD lecturers not necessary good lecturers

By: agreed with rosa

agreed with rosa — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:08:20 +0000

rosa, very well said :)

By: rosa

rosa — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:38:54 +0000

Jee,

You wrote:

“Not all PhD are equal in qualities
A PhD from Harvard will value higher than a PhD from Universiti Malaya, probably a business degree from Harvard could worth more than a DBA from UM.

We need quality PhDs, not just any PhDs. If you are graduated from local public universities, you’ll probably notice how easy it is for some people to obtain their post-graduate degree and their PhD later on.

I have a friend that’s working on his PhD at USM, and he can still play online games for over 10 hours a day. He’s on track for graduation next year as PhD holder, at the age of 28 while spending most of his PhD research time playing PC games. He must be a genius.”

A agree with you that a PhD holder is not necessarily the best lecturer.
However, I don’t agree with the above generalization of local PhD graduates. Just because one of your friends is young and likes to play PC games the whole time, it does not mean that all PhDs from local universities are not of good quality. (It could be one of his ways of letting his steam of, who knows.)

I am not sure what faculty your playful friend is from, but most PhD students, from local and overseas universities, have to face a lot of problems relating to their research and writing. You see, most people (especially those who don’t have PhD) don’t realize how difficult it is to complete one’s thesis and obtain a PhD. Some of these problems were not caused by them and were beyond their control, but that’s a whole different issue.

By the way, I hope your English has improved by now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:04:00 +0000

For a teacher / lecturer to be able to ‘deliver’ , he/she must has interest in the field he/she is in and has knowledge in that particular subject concern or interested to take the necessary steps to acquire knowledge regarding the new subject he/she is going to handle. In other words, one should not take up such post merely because being ‘requested’ to and doesn’t care about the outcome. For example a science teacher, not knowing how a certain game is to be played, should not handle P.E. lessons because such an attitude will have an impact on players to some extent. Please consider this as a reminder and not a redundant message.

By: San San

San San — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:53:08 +0000

Absolutely agree with you!
Even lecturers from educational faculties can’t convey the lectures effectively in my previous university. I was extremely disappointed with them, even though with years of experience as lecturers. Of course, in my opinion, not all lecturers in previous university are like that, but around 60%.
Lecturers in Malaysia, hope that you can be good lecturers in future…

By: Danong

Danong — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:10:13 +0000

I am a lecturer now and previously most of my time spent was in the corporate sector. As a new lecturer then, I have no problem in delivering my lectures while incorporating my experience into the academia. True, we all need to have vast experience and bring and share that experience into a learning and teaching mode for the benefit of our students. This I believe, a PhD is irrelevant.

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:11:44 +0000

“I had lecturers that came into the class and spent more time to talk on politics than teaching”

I agree with what you have commented. There was one time my friend attended an interview for lecturer in one of the universities in Sabah.

During the interview, there was a few rounds of interviews run by a board of lecturers.

My friend was quite shock on how they select their “future” lecturers. I am refering to business degree programmes.

When they were conducting ‘mock teaching’ session, the lecturer was stop to lecture in English for Business and asked he was then asked to lecture in BM. I mean… this is University standard .They still emphasizing BM for an English business subject. So, because he can speak well in BM, He was asked to go through the second round of interview.

In the second round of interview.. Guess what was the first question asked by the board of interviewer? Can you explain the difference between “educate” and “teaching”? I mean, business lecturer being asked this question.??? Ok….. maybe the board can argue that this was related topic.

Guess what was the second question they asked? Can you explain to me whether Malaysia should adopt Mathematics in English or BM in education system? Oh my god, a business lecturer (in economics field) was asked these question? That is why I agree with your point. If a business lecturer can really debate on whether Malaysia should adopt BM or English in the education system, then he might as well become a politician.

The sad true fact is, in order for any lecturer to go into local Universities , you need to be a politician first, only then you need to know how to lecture.

This happened in Jan 2009.

So, future lecturers… be a good debator before you go into local U!! There’s no need for you to know what is “opprtunity cost, scarcity… or even the meaning of inflation rates” Haha

By: anno

anno — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:35:43 +0000

If the same Shelen Ho, then her latest update is she has left MIM-INTI and join their partner MIM

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:30:27 +0000

Assuming we are talking about the same Dr Shelen Ho, you can get her contact via http://www.ims-inti.com/ims/index.php?id=3

By: Jee

Jee — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:47:01 +0000

nabil… no idea.

By: nabil mustafa

nabil mustafa — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:09:50 +0000

I am looking for a recent Ph.D graduate, in 2004 or 2005 by the name of Wai Han Ho also goes by Shelen Ho. She is a Malaysian citizen and graduated with an MBA from England and her Ph.D in Malaysia.

Any suggestions as to where to look, i.e. associations, management societies??

She worked as a consultant for a short while.
Thank You