Happy Labour Day to everyone.
For most who are getting a day off, happy holiday. Some people are already on holiday since last Thursday btw… lucky peeps.
For those who need to work, thank you for sacrificing your holiday to make the life of others easier… although I suspect you don’t really have much option.
For Buddhist, Happy Wesak Day.
More foreign students = education excellence? What kind of logic is that?
Malaysia aims to double to 100,000 from the present 50,000 the number of foreign students at local tertiary learning institutions by 2010, Higher Education Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said.
He said the government would embark on a dual-pronged approach to realise the target, which he described would be a “significant increase” to achieve the government’s goal to turn the country into a centre of education excellence. [Bernama]
For me, it’s another 50,000 foreigners getting to know how poor the tertiary learning institutions are. Shouldn’t the ministry focus on improving our universities’ standards before thinking of attracting more foreign students?
After the brawl at Machap, we must have guessed that the politicians and their supporters have learned something and would act more mature in future… it didn’t happen; the supporters fought again on the nomination day of by-election for the Ijok state seat.
I wonder what will happen at the nationwide election if this ‘fighting spirit’ is not controlled.
A gunman killed 32 people in Virginia Tech before killing himself on Monday morning (April 16); it’s the deadliest mass shooting in US history ever.
I will never understand why US has taken no action against their gun law since Columbine years ago; how many school massacre would need to happen before their leaders are convinced to take some actions.
School is supposed to be one of the safest place; you won’t know what places are safe when the schools aren’t… it’s pure tragic.
My condolences to the victims’ family.
Underlining its seriousness in wanting greater unity, the government yesterday ordered school administrators to speed-up integration-related programmes. [NST]
I doubt that the government is working on the right spot. You see, when I was in primary school, there are no racial issues in my thinking… Ali, Ah Kau and Mutu are all good friends. It applied in my real life; I made friends with all people regardless of races.
My thinking got a bit confused when I got into high school. We were required to study Tamadun Islam for one or two years. Fine, if it’s to learn other Malaysians’ culture and religion… but I always wondered why Muslims are not given the chance to learn other Malaysians’ origin as well?