Deputy minister Datuk Idris Haron said reports received by the ministry showed that most local graduates were unemployed because of poor proficiency in the language.

He said the student affairs and academic division at universities should provide a special English programme for their students, at least six months before their graduation.

This would ensure they were competent in English, he added.
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University as a place to learn language?
Our public universities should be reserved for people who are ready to learn about courses enrolled.
Languages are supposed to be taken care of at SPM level.

I’m glad you cleared it up for me, and anybody else who might have taken it at face value.

Undergrad2,

You tend to forget that the Chief Commissioner of MACC can now issue a second IC with different name to a person qualified under Witness Protection Programme. Who knows perhaps Kerismuddin has already obtained a new IC for his wife using the name “Aung San Suu Kyi”?

Today at 17: 31.16 (5 hours ago)
Godfather says, “He (Kerismuddin) wrote an affidavit stating that most UMNOputras and their families may have to seek asylum overseas if PR came to power.”

“I can’t tell whether you’re joking or not.” OrangRojak

Are you kiddin’??

Of course Godfather is joking!! No country accepts refugees with a criminal past even though they may be eligible to seek asylum – and in this case they are not. Corrupt BN gooks and goons, even if they are not running from the law but from their own shadows, do not qualify as refugees under any of the five statutory grounds made mandatory by the U.N. Convention Relating to Refugees 1954 and expanded by the U.N. 1967 Protocol. Since they are not refugees to begin with, how could they then take advantage of the United Nations asylum laws?

The best they could do is to employ the best plastic surgeons the world has to offer, give themselves and their family members new names and using fake passports make deals with customs and immigration of other equally corrupt third world countries so they could remain in those countries. Good luck to them!

But on a more serious note, it is important that these BN criminals and fugitives from justice be tried in absentia and heavy prison sentences handed down. Sign as many extradition treaties as possible with as many countries as possible, and then let Interpol do their job they are paid to do.

Mahathir may disguise himself as a goat herder in the mountains of Argentina, but we all know that his fondness for horse riding (a hobby of the rich and famous, and the rich and not-so-famous in Malaysia) will sooner or later break his cover.

I think you are getting a bit too hard on Dato Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein on the TIMSS matter. Don’t you know that Dato Seri Hishammuddin has always been busy with juggling with his crony contractors on the mathematics of the profit-sharing computation involving school construction projects all along these years?

Besides, he sometimes had gotten some perspiring and sweat-spilling night jobs to do in Government Lodging House located at Jalan Lambak Army Camp at Kluang. Don’t you find that he is definitely much smarter than Dr. Chua who mistakenly booked the same room on a regular basis from Hotel Katerina, Batu Pahat when having a date with girl friend?

Sometimes I just find that Dato Seri’s wife is really pitiful because Datin is so pretty and yet Dato Seri still likes to patronize p…

There are only five statutory grounds for asylum.

Also torturing fellow citizens with his boring and self-serving statements, and showing off his old, bent, crooked and rusty knife would have excluded him from the list of qualified refugees.

And that principle is to carry looting in a more systematic and less wasteful ways, a fairer distribution of the wealth….??

Yes, I’m pro-English when it comes to using it as a teaching medium. However, the kids better be able to grasp the concept rather than memorizing it.

On the contrary, I don’t mind these mathematical robots either. This country need competent hardworking problem-solvers too. Of course it would be better if they have an ounce of creativity. Just leave the research and breakthroughs to a handful of hardworking geniuses.

Which one of these 3 criteria would qualify Kerismuddin’s daughter for entry into Alice Smith ?

Yes, the policy for admission to international schools hasn’t changed – they are meant for expats working here, or for those returning Malaysians whose children had studied in foreign schools or those Malaysians who have a high probability of being transferred overseas.

Kerismuddin qualified under the last category. He wrote an affidavit stating that most UMNOputras and their families may have to seek asylum overseas if PR came to power.

Kerismuddin is also the Education Minister. In Bolehland, pulling the right strings will get you a place in an international school.

If they are being prevented from assuming their proper role, why is this idiot of an education minister trying to turn our school children into potential future Hamas suicide bombers?

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First he adopted the Mat Rempit to be idolized and emulated.

Now he is going to turn all school children into potential future Hamas suicide bombers.

This is Bolehland’s coming education.

But with the subjective format, not only must you have to think but to also be able to use the language to express yourself clearly.

The present system takes the thinking and expressive part out of education. That’s the sad fact and the education system is only producing study robots.

So you see most of our students are only robots and not thinking individuals.

You only memorise facts and formulae but not doing the thinking part.

Let us not miss the wood for the trees, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans are hardworking people, unlike the white people which are much more creative. Take a look at the noble prize winner and all the newly discovered formulas and scientific breakthroughs. Who are they? Having a good memory and able to solve a math problem quickly does not means it is good, we need to teach our kids to think out of the box… like the white man, they emphasize creativity, not memorizing!

Of the 93 countries participated, Malaysia achieved the glory of #74.