One prize we haveto give Malaysian politicians for is their constant entries for the best catch phrases that are good for supermarket stalls at VMY periods so tourists and shoppers – local and foreign – can know Malaysia has also got a very active think tank at work. Who says we have a Council of fools led by a sleepy Head? Cheers.

It is not what you think you want to do that brings results. It is what you do from you think that will bring you where you aspire to be.

I simply don’t trust anything anymore that has to do with BN, especially Pak Lah and his Cabinet.

pwcheng Says:

August 28th, 2007 at 16: 12.01
“This guy had been talking too much, corridors here and corridors there”. Call i’ ‘doors’. It’s time to show BN the doors and the boot!

Talk about education? Boy, they might as well bay at the moon! Just look at this email that’s been making the rounds. The reason for so many question marks on the Malaysian Cabinet is because it’s face-saving to cover-up, as always! Even Malaysian media do not brag about their Cabinet’s intellectual abiltiies; nothing to shout about! But the media would shout about some passenger astronaut ( no fault of his! Poor guy, just being used) or some airy-fairy 2057 dream and now producing 100,000 Ph.D’s (is that 2057 target again?) etc.etc.

Now we know why all this talk-shop and tokkok from the tokkoh BN:

Singapore Cabinet vs Malaysia Cabinet

PM Lee Hsien Loong
Cambridge University – First Class Honours (1974)
Harvard University – Masters (1980)
PM Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi
University of Malaya – Bachelor of Arts Honours ??? (Islamic Studies) (1964)

SM Goh Chok Tong
University of Singapore – First Class Honours (1964)
Williams College , USA – Masters (1967)
Deputy PM Dato’ Sri Najib Razak
University of Nottingham – Bachelor of Arts Honours ??(1974)

MM Lee Kuan Yew
Cambridge University – First Class Honours (1949)
Minister of Foregn Affairs Syed Hamid Albar
(can someone tell me his univeristy?? )- Bachelor of ???

Minister for Law Prof. S Jayakumar
University of Singapore – Bachelor of Law Honours (1963)
Yale Univerity – Masters (1966)
Ministry of Works- Dato’ Seri Samy Vellu
(Education Unknown???) [ Form 6, Anderson School??? ]

Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng
University of Singapore – Bachelor of Arts & Business Admin (1977)
London Business School – Masters (1979)
Ministry of International Trade & Industry Rafidah binti Aziz
Universiti Malaya – Bachelor of Arts Honours ???

Minister for Foreign Affairs BG George Yeo
Cambridge University – Double First Class Honours (1976)
Harvard Business School – MBA w/ Distinction (1985)
Minister of Agriculture Muhyiddin Yassin
(Education Unknown???) [ ??? English, pass or fail???]

Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang
Cambridge University – First Class Honours w/ Distinction (1976)
Harvard University – Masters (1986)
Ministry of Domestic Trade Shafie Apdal
(Education Unknown???) [ Form 5, Failed English???]

Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean
University of Manchester – First Class Honours (1976)
Imperial College, London – Masters w/ Distinction (1977)
Minister of Education Hishammuddin Hussein
(Education Unknown) [ Bachelor of ??? LLM ???]

Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam
London School of Economics – Bachelor of Arts
Cambridge University – Masters
Harvard University – Masters
Minister of Home Affairs Radzi bin Sheikh Ahmad
(Education Unknown??? LLB ???

Our government that wants to promote academic excellence and freedom cannot even tolerate an open discussion on an issue that requires accountability.

“We may conduct the training elsewhere as skills training are not part of the role of universities,” he added.”

A very sensible and practical proposal – please train some of our graduates to have skills to be employed as maids, butlers, nurses, oil palm estate workers, petrol kiosk helpers, janitors, air port baggage handlers, mechanics, etc.

Some of our graduates may also learn from the great Zakaria – how to rise from a humble beginning (like keeping an eye on gates) to a datuk with palaces; or from KJ – how to be a millionaire or billionaire while being unemployed or how to influence national policies while not an elected assemblyman or MP.

Some of our graduates may also automatically become VIP ball carriers.

The non bumi contributed significantly to the economy and revenue but discriminative and abused policies denied their children a fair education opportunity to achieve their very best for themselves and to contribute to the country.

This is most unfair, damaging and irresponsible of any government – irrespective of their good intention of social restructuring…….many innocent people lives are made very difficult or ruined.

If one carefully and objectively analyses the points raised (e.g., the best brains – academic staff and students – will be admitted, self-governing in funding and research & development, and to be assessed by independent committee comprising only experts), no way we can achieve any one of them. The points are good only for a good laugh.

Our government wants the best brains to be in our public universities, wants them to be world beaters and great thinkers pushing the frontiers of knowledge, and wants them to be independent and self-governing. However, the various restricting acts, such as the University and College Act and OSA, and Akujanji are still enforced.

Do we seriously believe that our government will allow our best brains to make objective statements about the faulty and self-enriching implementation of NEP?

How many experts do we have to be members of various independent assessment committees? Mind you, our government only wants experts who are pro-government. Would our government appoint experts like Lim Teik Ghee, Jomo, etc. of international repute to be members of Audit Panels?

Furthermore, to truly elevate the standard of some of our current so-called top and research public universities, our government must throw out many existing deadwood pseudo-intellectual academic staff (many of whom are senior as well). Is our government prepared to go to this extreme? Can our government bring about positive changes after >30 years of self-erosion of standard by just pumping in money?

So, ladies and gentlemen, this is just another wayang for our Merdeka celebration. Don’t get too excited about it. The naked fact is our so-called top and research public universities are rotten to the core and the way forward is only one way – down.

why 2020? when 2008 we will see deserving Malaysians being left out of the uni again because they are with the wrong colour skin, wrong religion, and born into the wrong family.

realised 2008 first, mr PM, stop bluffing us.

incidently mr pm, do you realised that Singapore will be building a new uni, starting from next year, and i will bet that they have more places and the faculty of choice for deserving and smart Malaysians compare to our uni, than we have for our own malaysians.

stop the bull, 4 years, all empty promise, and now you want us to believe in fairness?

Else whatever blueprints, strategies all going no where as the younger generation are not trained to think out of the box but being brainwash/to be made like robot only follow what the government says and submit to the oppessive force. There is an oppressive regime developing in our public universities as the heads are working closely with the ruling party to rule over and brainwash our future generation.

If the universities all run by jaguh kampungs. it would produce many ‘JAGUH KAMPUNGS’

…jAGUH KAMPUNGS breeds JAGUH KAMPUNGS