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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14 — With daily Covid-19 cases nationwide still unabated, the Education Ministry has issued a memo to state education directors and principals to get feedback from parents on reopening schools on September 1. Malay Mail sighted a memo signed by the Education Ministry’s Chief...
July 30, 2021 TVB denounced illegal acts committed online and offline. South China Morning Post Hong Kong police have arrested a Form Six pupil for posting online messages in an alleged attempt to get people to boycott more than 100 businesses that advertised with free-to-air broadcaster TVB. Without naming the station, police said on Thursday the 18-year-old male suspect was found to have posted messages on a Facebook group since May last year and encouraged others to blacklist advertisers to try to cause reputational and financial losses to a broadcaster. A force insider said the teenager ...
How Jomo created much needed skills from scratch Wednesday July 28 2021 President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta cuts a tape to officially open Uchumi House on Aga Khan Walk on July 27, 1973. FILE PHOTO | NMG By GEORGE WACHIRA Summary A nation without a good balance of critical skills at diploma and graduate levels can neither effectively compete with the rest of the world nor meet its basic socioeconomic needs. Jubilee government has been rebalancing its TVET and university education, having lost capacity to create technical skills somewhere along the way. A nation without a good balance of critical ski...
news Hong Kong NGO trains young people to help ethnic minority groups navigate health care maze Rachel Yeo rachel.yeo@scmp.com © SCMP Trainees under NGO Health in Action Dhuaa Khan, 17, (left) and Wendy Dichoso Zhuang, 21. Photo: Xiaomei Chen The Covid-19 pandemic helped Dhuaa Khan, 17, understand the problems Hong Kong's ethnic minority communities face when they seek medical help. The Pakistani teenager acted as the interpreter when she accompanied her elderly aunt to be vaccinated, as everything was explained in English. Her aunt appeared confused and anxious whenever me...
Copy URL IN my 2003 book An Education System Worthy of Malaysia I put forth ideas on improving the system. Today the situation is much worse. Nonetheless some, with appropriate modifications, could still be useful. The cheapest, easiest, and most immediate would be to end the current obsession with Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM). Make K-13 the new standard, with Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM) the new terminal examination. While America has K-12, that is misleading. The norm is at least K-12 plus two, the two being junior college or university. The necessary first step to improvin...