Comments on: Financial Autonomy To Universities A Good Start http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/ for Malaysia Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:12:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: feimao.mrbb http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/comment-page-1/#comment-78700 feimao.mrbb Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:03:31 +0000 http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/#comment-78700 This is a classic case of too little, too late. By 2020, most chinese parents would be sending their kids to private schools from kindergarden to university level. The less affluent will fight tooth and nail to get theirs into chinese public schools who are well known to be overachieving scholarly. The BN government is well known to be top heavy with numerous ministries that are non-functional. Making the universities independent financially can be a double edged sword. If not careful, the universities can go bankcrupt. Imagine the ensuing hilarity to the world of academia. Truly an embodiment of Malaysia Boleh. Too little, too late. The only remedy is rid of all VCs and a complete overhaul of the system - from entrance exams to selection of qualified educators. Anything less is window dressing. This is a classic case of too little, too late. By 2020, most chinese parents would be sending their kids to private schools from kindergarden to university level. The less affluent will fight tooth and nail to get theirs into chinese public schools who are well known to be overachieving scholarly.

The BN government is well known to be top heavy with numerous ministries that are non-functional. Making the universities independent financially can be a double edged sword. If not careful, the universities can go bankcrupt. Imagine the ensuing hilarity to the world of academia. Truly an embodiment of Malaysia Boleh.

Too little, too late. The only remedy is rid of all VCs and a complete overhaul of the system - from entrance exams to selection of qualified educators. Anything less is window dressing.

]]> By: waterfrontcoolie http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/comment-page-1/#comment-78513 waterfrontcoolie Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:11:44 +0000 http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/#comment-78513 Unless the BASIC POLICY is CHANGED, no way can our universities compete; even in the ASEAN region. With the current group of adminitrators at all the public universities, any endowment would disappear into the thin air. Can you name any one of the current vice Chancellors who can command any respect in the international forum? ZERO! They always forget that quality does not come, just because they announce it. Real Numbs! Some where, I read that the GOMEN had pumped some $1,000,000,000,000.00 into supporting the NEP policy since inception. How much is that ONE TRILLION ringgit! Even at the lowest fixed deposit rate, we would have beaten Singapore by a wide margin! Now, what do we have? Every action taken had gone down the LONGKANG!! So unless the fundamental is correct, all actions to be taken will come to NOUGHT!!!!!!!! Unless the BASIC POLICY is CHANGED, no way can our universities compete; even in the ASEAN region. With the current group of adminitrators at all the public universities, any endowment would disappear into the thin air. Can you name any one of the current vice Chancellors who can command any respect in the international forum? ZERO! They always forget that quality does not come, just because they announce it. Real Numbs! Some where, I read that the GOMEN had pumped some $1,000,000,000,000.00 into supporting the NEP policy since inception. How much is that ONE TRILLION ringgit! Even at the lowest fixed deposit rate, we would have beaten Singapore by a wide margin! Now, what do we have? Every action taken had gone down the LONGKANG!! So unless the fundamental is correct, all actions to be taken will come to NOUGHT!!!!!!!!

]]> By: hiro http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/comment-page-1/#comment-78506 hiro Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:53:08 +0000 http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/#comment-78506 Another last minute sweetener? Sure it's welcomed, but really insincere, and not fully thought out. And do bear in mind. What is given can be taken away just as easily. My bet is still with the opposition. Another last minute sweetener? Sure it’s welcomed, but really insincere, and not fully thought out. And do bear in mind. What is given can be taken away just as easily. My bet is still with the opposition.

]]> By: cemerlang http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/comment-page-1/#comment-78470 cemerlang Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:25:17 +0000 http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/#comment-78470 Malaysia's education is in a very sad situation. Do the politicians and the people connected to education see this ? Do the people use this financial autonomy to make education on par with other great education institutions of another country ? One intelligent Malaysian student cannot represent the whole of Malaysian students. There should be many intelligent Malaysian students, as intelligent as their counterparts in the best universities of the world, before we can say that our education is of quality. It is one thing to pass exams with flying colours. It is another to absorb knowledge, to use this knowledge and to improve on or to reject this knowledge altogether. We cannot be copying other people's knowledge or making templates out of them without questioning whether they are good enough. Copying or making templates is actually a way of saying that we do not know. And when we do not know, we become blur and there is no system. When there is no system, there is a tendency to just follow orders. Work becomes robotic when you only have to listen to commands. There should be a benchmark for all universities to follow because without this benchmark, there is no way of saying whether there is a standard. If every education institution is doing things their own way, it is pointless comparing results because there is no set standard to compare the results with. Questions that are different. Answers that are different. So you only get the marks but you cannot compare them between the many education instituitions. In fact if you do compare, you are only wasting time, effort, money and doing things the wrong way. Exactly which one is a genuine university ? These days, just about any education institution can call itself a university. This puts down the education standard. The people should put a stop to this. In fact, many small so called universities should merge to form a big university. They should not allow just about anyone to enter the university and it is not right to make extra money from the students especially students who are from families struggling to make ends meet. Sometimes these students are afraid to report about financial matters. They think that they should spend when in fact they are not asked to do so. They think that they can exchange their money for better grades or a secure future but they don't know that grades are not given by just one person and that a secure future can come about if they study hard and pass. In fact, money seems to be very immoral when it becomes one of the issues in any education institution. There should not be a financially corrupted educator. By this, it means an educator who thinks nothing but money and more money. The money should not be used in any other personal forms other than for education alone. There should not be only one person holding onto the finance. So when it comes to money, even an education institution will find it hard to use it correctly. Malaysia’s education is in a very sad situation. Do the politicians and the people connected to education see this ? Do the people use this financial autonomy to make education on par with other great education institutions of another country ? One intelligent Malaysian student cannot represent the whole of Malaysian students. There should be many intelligent Malaysian students, as intelligent as their counterparts in the best universities of the world, before we can say that our education is of quality. It is one thing to pass exams with flying colours. It is another to absorb knowledge, to use this knowledge and to improve on or to reject this knowledge altogether. We cannot be copying other people’s knowledge or making templates out of them without questioning whether they are good enough. Copying or making templates is actually a way of saying that we do not know. And when we do not know, we become blur and there is no system. When there is no system, there is a tendency to just follow orders. Work becomes robotic when you only have to listen to commands. There should be a benchmark for all universities to follow because without this benchmark, there is no way of saying whether there is a standard. If every education institution is doing things their own way, it is pointless comparing results because there is no set standard to compare the results with. Questions that are different. Answers that are different. So you only get the marks but you cannot compare them between the many education instituitions. In fact if you do compare, you are only wasting time, effort, money and doing things the wrong way.

Exactly which one is a genuine university ? These days, just about any education institution can call itself a university. This puts down the education standard. The people should put a stop to this. In fact, many small so called universities should merge to form a big university. They should not allow just about anyone to enter the university and it is not right to make extra money from the students especially students who are from families struggling to make ends meet. Sometimes these students are afraid to report about financial matters. They think that they should spend when in fact they are not asked to do so. They think that they can exchange their money for better grades or a secure future but they don’t know that grades are not given by just one person and that a secure future can come about if they study hard and pass. In fact, money seems to be very immoral when it becomes one of the issues in any education institution. There should not be a financially corrupted educator. By this, it means an educator who thinks nothing but money and more money. The money should not be used in any other personal forms other than for education alone. There should not be only one person holding onto the finance. So when it comes to money, even an education institution will find it hard to use it correctly.

]]> By: Rakyat Teraniaya http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/comment-page-1/#comment-78439 Rakyat Teraniaya Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:50:54 +0000 http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/#comment-78439 See Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's video on the University issue. It will shed some light on our current drop of universities and why we should take a stand and VOTE FOR DAP, PKR and PAS! VOTE FOR CHANGE! VOTE FOR OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE! Visit anwaribrahimblog.com and see his ceramahs. See Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s video on the University issue. It will shed some light on our current drop of universities and why we should take a stand and VOTE FOR DAP, PKR and PAS!
VOTE FOR CHANGE! VOTE FOR OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE!

Visit anwaribrahimblog.com and see his ceramahs.

]]> By: raven77 http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/comment-page-1/#comment-78436 raven77 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:44:17 +0000 http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/02/18/financial-autonomy-to-universities-a-good-start/#comment-78436 Financial autonomy must be tempered with good governance of these universities........which currently is absent. At the University Malaya itself, the university is bogged down by an unqualified and less then inspirational VC surrounded by even more moronic deputies...... The chairman Anuar Zaini, a Badawi crony sneakily sells off a large portion of the university's real estate and at the University Hospital, directors have siphoned off millions through hiked up construction, equipment costs, unnecessary IT ventures and overseas trips all at the tax payer’s expense. All these happen because treasurers are in cahoots with university authorities. Basic problem.....a den of thieves running the university...much like the rest of the country. If Malaysian universities are to run on large endowment funds instead of government handouts...these same creeps will dry out the fund and leave the university a shell......people are what maketh a university great…..much like anything else.....and there is no place for good people irrespective of colour in this nation nor its universities…....In a country where integrity is a rare word in government or even the judiciary.......our universities are truly cooked…….the days of Oppenheim, Griffiths, Ungku Abdul Aziz, Alatas or Danaraj have long since past ….. Financial autonomy must be tempered with good governance of these universities……..which currently is absent. At the University Malaya itself, the university is bogged down by an unqualified and less then inspirational VC surrounded by even more moronic deputies……

The chairman Anuar Zaini, a Badawi crony sneakily sells off a large portion of the university’s real estate and at the University Hospital, directors have siphoned off millions through hiked up construction, equipment costs, unnecessary IT ventures and overseas trips all at the tax payer’s expense. All these happen because treasurers are in cahoots with university authorities. Basic problem…..a den of thieves running the university…much like the rest of the country.

If Malaysian universities are to run on large endowment funds instead of government handouts…these same creeps will dry out the fund and leave the university a shell……people are what maketh a university great…..much like anything else…..and there is no place for good people irrespective of colour in this nation nor its universities…….In a country where integrity is a rare word in government or even the judiciary…….our universities are truly cooked…….the days of Oppenheim, Griffiths, Ungku Abdul Aziz, Alatas or Danaraj have long since past …..

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