Families of Hillsborough Stadium Victims Seek New Inquests
Takut hadapi pilihanraya, PR berdrama di Sabah
The high and the mighty in Putridjaya
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Have beens, Could Have Beens, Might Have Beens: The Making of A Political Dustbin
Orang Kecewa. I feel contemptible for my friends in PKR, though like we told @fahmifadzil, we consider his party has been bringing in as well most have-beens newly as well as bringing them in with good resplendence as well as fanfare, as if they were good coups. Not most opposite from DAP's "victory" of removing Aspan Alias as well as Sakmongkol, though at slightest those two have never benefited as most when they were deep in the BN "system" nor have been they as aged as well as sleepy as the recent "kataks" in Sabah, nonetheless they might be as worthless.
Fahmi pronounced "They have been journey the falling ship". we really don't consider so. we consider they saw the garbage truck as well as went for it!
The Choice put it eloquently:
This trickle of has-been politicians signing up to Pakatan is deeply annoying for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who has thrown his personal weight behind the desertion strategy. He substantially suspicion he could cheat BN representatives to switch allegiance, though so distant very few have taken the bait. And the ones he is snaring have been frequency value the effort.It is very transparent which Anwar Ibrahim's influence in Sabah, once the favorite playground of his when he was Dr Mahathir's emissary in the government as well as in Umno, has waned. Anwar is currently the magnet for "orang2 kecewa".
Read Anwar's Sabah katak have been has beens by Another Brick in the Wall
and The Choice's Anwar's Defection Strategy in Borneo not very convincing
Sensational Shin wins Womens British Open
September 17, 2012
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Sensational Shin wins Women's British Open
(CNN) South Korea's Shin Jiyai carded the final-round 73 to sign an emphatic nine-stroke feat during the women's British Open. Players were forced to play both the third as well as fourth rounds upon Sunday after adverse weather conditions during the Royal Liverpool Golf Club had done play unfit upon Friday.
Former world No. 1 Shin finished nine-under standard for the tournament, with her closest rival, compatriot Park Inbee, finishing turn standard through 72 holes. American 2010 U.S. Open leader Paula Creamer (right) was third upon the single over.
After carding the course jot down 64 upon Saturday, Shin started the day 5 shots clear of the field.
Australia's Karrie Webb marked down the opening to three strokes during the third round, played early upon Sunday, though she was incompetent to prevent Shin clinching the second British Open triumph following her win in 2008.
The 24-year-old's success equates to all 4 of this year's majors have been won by Asian players. Sun-Young Yoo, also of South Korea, took the Kraft Nabisco Championship, while China's Shanshan Feng won June's LPGA Championship. South Korean Na Yeon Choi clinched the 2012 U.S. Open.
Teenage sensation Lydia Ko (above), who was born in South Korea though is the New Zealand national, stormed to her initial LPGA Tour title last month, with most approaching of the 15-year-old during Hoylake.
But the amateur endured the torrid last turn as well as finished nine over for the tournament, in the six-way tie for 17th position.
Level with Ko was American taking flight star Lexi Thompson. The 17-year-old carded the level-par 72 for the last round.
One shot ahead of Ko as well as Thompson in the four-way tie for 13th was Michelle Wie. The two-time LPGA Tour leader sealed out with the seven-over standard 79.
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Lynas left holding the baby
Press Statements
Lynas has now submitted an application to a regulator, a Australian Radiation Protection as well as Nuclear Safety Agency, to import hot rubbish from Malaysia.
This explanation beggars idea as just a couple of days ago a two-year proxy looseness to work was postulated to Lynas, who intend to ship hot ores by Fremantle Port to trade them to their plant in Malaysia, now seem to be reporting which they should be able to import a wastes of those ores behind onto Australian soil.
Malaysia's chief regulator Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) had pronounced which a Australian miner was legally firm to mislay hot rubbish from a Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) as well as return a residue to Australia underneath conditions of a proxy handling licence. However this headlines flies in a face of Australian supervision policy, as well as in truth Western Australian legislation, which asserts which Australia does not accept or import hot rubbish from other countries.
Robin Chapple Member of a Legislative Coun! cil, Wes tern Australia as well as Greens [party] orator for mining issues commented upon Lynas' recent move:
"It seems which again Lynas thinks it is outside a law as it is handling in Malaysia, as well as may be subject to less rigorous authorised scrutiny. Well it isn't, as well as if it thinks which Western Australia will take this hot waste, it can think again.
"It didn't consult with community upon shipping a hot ores by Fremantle port, as well as it positively hasn't consulted upon shipping behind a hot waste. The WA Nuclear Waste Storage (Prohibition) Act 1999 prohibits it here. Period!
But really, we have to laugh. Lynas has now been tripped up by a own lack of willingness to take mind of Australia's expectations with apply oneself to tolerable mining as well as environmental, social as well as authorised standards, as well as hasn't it got a come-uppance. Talk about being left land a baby!
To quote a good Michael Franks, 'And I'm blamin' we 'cause now I'm all ready to go up as well as we got nowhere to go'."
Source: robinchapple.com
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UMNO and the Malay Mental Serfdom
We know things have been a conflicting when a Dear Leader Kim Il Najib spoke about Malay presence being related to UMNO. What else can he say? The easiest approach to rebut this uncomplicated avowal is to point out to him that 1 in 6 Malays is an UMNO member. So when a single UMNO Malay is out of a loop, there have been 5 some-more other Malays left to survive. So, it's not true that if UMNO is out, Malays have been also accomplished off. Only that sole UMNO is out of a equation. So you omit his shrieking as good as fake assertion.
I am many confused when he says or suggests that UMNO has an ideology. Since when does UMNO has an beliefs consisting of beliefs as good as simple pushing force? What ideology? Since a time when you was still in UMNO until now, you have been taught that UMNO hasn't got an ideology. It has always claimed it's pragmatic although a word actually equates to anything goes. No sir, UMNO hasn't got any ideology.
Everyone sees a in front of in UMNO as a equates to to have some-more money. That is since Najib has so most difficulty in weaning off incumbents from their current seats. Unless of course he pays them off as good as that is what he is doing. He's giving so many people golden handshakes.
When he says DAP will dominate, he contingency be off his rockers. But afterwards he is articulate to a resilient as good as nodding throng whose minds have been conditioned by TV3 as good as Utusex Malaysia. The evidence that DAP will browbeat is incredible as good as devious.
He was speaking during a Mesyuarat Perwakilan UMNO Bahagian- a local Perhimpunan Agung. It was a same when he spoke to a rented throng during stadium Bukit Jalil a couple of months ago. But when he retires to a sleeping quarters, he can't nap since he's getting nightmares. He's thinking, can UMNO even reach a 100 seat mark?
Well, you know some-more about him that a normal re! ader.
We have explained since DAP will turn a formidable party since of a disciplined as good as quality caring as good as clarity of a cause. Seat wise, DAP cant form a government but PAS as good as PKR since it's contesting not some-more that 52 seats or even less. Unless of course a Malays in PKR as good as PAS have been of a same mediocre customary as UMNO leaders, afterwards only, Malays have been disadvantaged. Malay presence is during risk if they continue a corrupt as good as self-interested UMNO.
Even Kit Siang as good as Guan Eng acknowledged a domestic reality of this country. The infancy of a race is Malay as good as to indicate that anyone other than a Malay can be PM as good as TPM during this connection of a history, is devilishly disingenuous. Bu then, UMNO is a devil you know.
The reason since DAP is assailed is since a party has turn a party of preference by a infancy of a Chinese, Indians as good as to small extent, Malays. Malays right away cite PKR as good as PAS.
When he asked a resilient throng have been you ready for elections- they will answer yes of course. We have been waiting for a money! Where a mo?
Do Malays rely upon UMNO? That is what UMNO wants us to hold as good as that it's since it's usually plan is to keep Malays upon mercantile control by giving handouts as good as giveaway things. It's also Najib's usually strategy. Talking about ETP as good as NKRA, KPI contingency exert a little extensive mental mark upon him. Poor fellow.
That usually thing they have funded from Malays- effective mercantile leisure giveaway from regulations, licenses that preference a rich, quotas that have been attacked by a abounding as good as powerful etc.
That is absolute lie. Malays do not rely upon UMNO for their survival. Malays have got a preference if they want to maintain that romantic security- await PAS or PKR. Do you see Malays humo! ur in Se langor, Kelantan, Penang as good as Kedah where UMNO is not in power? No? Then Malays do not rely upon UMNO for their survival. They prosper under good governance, frank as good as dedicated administrations.
When UMNO leaders proclaim that a security is during risk that reflects some-more of their incompetence. The Home Minister shows his complete insufficiency by allowing vigilantes to roam a travel as good as emanate havoc. Hishamudin should renounce from his post as Home Minister if he's not splendid enough.
When Ali Rustam says there will be mess if Pakatan takes over, he is fibbing since it's even some-more catastrophic if UMNO/BN is retained. When Ali says PR people have been meddlesome usually to enrich themselves instead of caring for a welfare of a people, he is describing precisely what UMNO leaders do during a moment. In a Felda FGV listing for example, in between Mustapha Mohamad as good as Mukhriz, they gave themselves 100 million units. Who enriched themselves over people? Answer: UMNO people. 2 UMNO ministers get 100 million, 112,000 felda settlers get 91 million. So Felda settlers! Please give UMNO 3 votes only.
You see UMNO people (there is no need right away to talk about MCA or MIC since they have been irrelevant) have no answers to a issues raised; they fall behind upon a single final notation weapon. Appeal to a emotions. Stir up a fears. Stoke secular sentiments as good as prejudices.
Because they have been half past six leaders as good as have been cerebrally challenged, they can't reason out. Reasoning final a little mental rigor as good as this UMNO people don't have. That is since their answers have been a same aged same old. Malays have been finished, Malay rulers have been finished, Islam is involved as good as so forth.
Just ask yourselves- since is UMNO going all out creation appeals to a emotions as good as not to reason? Why is UMNO u! nashamed ly telling a people that amicable evils movement from a activities of immorality men( Anwar Ibrahim, Guan Eng, Kit Siang, Haji Hadi, Nik Aziz, Azmin Ali, that rascal Rafizi) as good as that if usually good men( such as those in UMNO naturally) wielded energy all would be well. Only if good group like in UMNO swing power, you can take caring of Malays, sacrament as good as a kings.
Our response is this: Such views need usually emotion as good as self-praise that have been what UMNO leaders have been you do now.
And people have been easily moved by appeals to a emotions- love, hate, feeling scared as good as so on. Moreover, to reason out that a antithesis that wields no energy yet have been also able of you do better all a things UMNO does, requires research as good as suspicion subordinating a emotions to a receptive faculty. And you know UMNO as good as a leaders as good as supporters have been not able of being rational. That is since even a semi-retired Great Helmsman Mahathir Mohamad has left upon record asking UMNO to be receptive precisely since they have been NOT as good as unqualified of being so.
So UMNO advances arguments that have been simple but fake that appeal to a emotions. To comprehend that Pakatan Rakyat can do better what UMNO has been you do would need sophisticated thinking. And since a romantic faculties have been some-more grown than a rational, UMNO seeks out romantic emancipation as a final refuge.
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Bakri Musa on Education Blueprint 2013-2025 (Part 1)
September 17 2012
The Havoc Education Reform Inflicts: Education Blueprint 2013-2025
First of Five Parts: Education Blueprint Transparent, But Not Bold Or Comprehensive
by Dr Bakri Musa. Morgan-Hill, California
Education remodel is inflicted upon Malaysians with a rule of a monsoon. Like a storm, a massacre these "reforms" emanate lingers prolonged after they have upheld through.
In this five-part commentary you will critique a ultimate remodel bid contained in Preliminary Report: Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025released upon September 11, 2012. The initial 3 essays will residence a Blueprint's findings as well as recommendations; a fourth, a omissions, as well as a last, a flaws in a process with this sold remodel effort.
The Blueprint obviously identifies a main problems as well as hurdles during both a complement as well as individual levels, though fails to investigate why or how they came about as well as why they have been let to fester. Consequently a recommendations have been formed some-more upon conjecture rsther than than solid data; some-more towards generalities as well as a stating of goals rsther than than upon specifics as well as how to achieve those goals.
On a positive side, a goals as well as milestones (at slightest a small of them) have been obviously settled in quantifiable terms, so you would know whether they have been completed going forward.
Despite endless open appearance as well as a inclusion of most luminaries (including foreign ones) upon a panel, a report has most vivid omissions. It fails to residence a sold hurdles facing Islamic as well as farming inhabitant schools. This is startling deliberation which a constituents in both streams have been Malays, a politically powerful group. Even some-more pertinent, those schools continually perform during a bottom quartile; they drag down a sum system. Improving them would go a prolonged way in enhancing a entire system. Yet an additional repudiation is a failure to investigate as well as to illustrate sense from earlier remodel efforts.
This Blueprint does not live up to Najib Razak's avowal of being "bold, comprehensive as well as transparent." Transparent perhaps, though not confidant or comprehensive! That is not startling as a row is dominated by polite servants. They have been partial of a complaint for so prolonged which it would be as well most to expect them right away to magically be partial of a solution.
It is a particularly Malaysian obsession to remodel a educational process with a domestic season. Every brand brand brand new minister feels compelled to do it, as if to denote his domestic manhood. Now it is Muhyiddin's turn.
Five years ago underneath Hishamuddin there was Langkah Langkah Ke Arah Cemerlangan (Steps Towards Excellence). Five years prior to which underneath Musa Mohamad was Pembangunan Pendidikan 2001-2010: Rancangan Bersepadu Penjana Cemerlangan Pendidikan (Education Development 2010-2011. Plan for Unity Through Educational Excellence). Notice a prolonged! pretent ious titles as well as visit have use of of a word "excellence."
In a meantime generations of immature Malaysians, in all Malays, continue to pay a price for a follies of prior reforms, in sold a a single in a 1970s which did away with English schools. Someone finally wisened up as well as brought behind a training of English, albeit usually in science as well as mathematics. Then usually as you were adjusting to as well as recuperating from which reversal, a brand brand brand new leader who thought himself smarter changed behind a system!
This ultimate remodel expelled upon September 11, 2012, will infer to be a 9-11 of Malaysian education. The drop might not be as thespian visually as well as physically as a alternative 9-11, though a wreckage will be real as well as massive, with a massacre superfluous prolonged after to haunt stream as well as destiny generations. The repairs will be extensive, cumulative, as well as compounding.
As in a past, this time you have been again being betrothed which this charge of a remodel will wash away a thick soiled haze which has been hovering over a schools. Yes, a air will be clearer as well as fresher after a storm, as well as a birds will sing. Meanwhile however, you have to understanding with ripped roofs, inundate debris, as well as destructive landslides.
In compiling this Blueprint a supervision has commendably sought far-reaching open appearance as well as during good expense. The open in spin responded massively as well as enthusiastically, reflecting a angst over a preparation system. The row however, did not amply thoughts a disproportion in between quantity as well as quality, as well as duly gave equal time to a bombasts as well as a wise.
The Challenge of Quality
This Blueprint, similar to earlier ones, is already removing rave reviews from a usual quarters. Just as predictably, a year or dual from right away even prior to any of a recommendations have been wholly implemented, "scholars" from a open universities will acknowledgement through their "research" which a reforms have already constructed a anticipated improvements!
We saw this when a process of training science as well as arithmetic in English was rescinded. Barely a year in to a module as well as "scholars" from a open universities were already trumpeting a "remarkable" improvement in a science as well as arithmetic scores in all between farming Malay students. With all those good improvements a single wonders why you need an additional reform!
This brand brand brand new Blueprint was hardly expelled when Muhiyiddin announced a brand brand brand new history curriculum, meaning, a single written by UMNO hired hands. So most for a weight since to this remodel as well as a design of formulating students capable of critical as well as eccentric thinking!
No a single would argue with a Blueprint's objectives of mending access, quality, equity, unity, as well as efficiency. Consider quality; it is uppermost in everyone's mind. The supervision proudly parades a success rates during a inhabitant examinations, as with a accelerating number of A's scored. Yet when assessed by such outmost yardsticks as TIMSS as well as PISA, a students scored poorly. As a report acknowledges, they have been during slightest dual to 3 grades during a behind of their counterparts in South Korea, as well as declining.
The row glosses over this vivid curiosity as well as to illustrate fails to pull a usually as well as important conclusion: Obviously what you teach as well as how you test have been substandard; worse, you have been you do both wrong!
If your home thermometer says you do not have a heat though during a hospital you register a tall fever, afterwards y! ou shoul d get absolved of your thermometer lest you would be dangerously misled in a future. If you instruct a students to be in a tip third in PISA as well as TIMSS, afterwards you should initial allot with a stream curriculum as well as contrast as they do not correlate (in fact inversely correlated) with those international measurements.
Consider an additional objective, to have a students be bilingual in Malay as well as English. you determine with that; a complaint is how to achieve it. The row addresses a emanate generally, though a kampong boy in Ulu Kelantan faces a vastly opposite complaint in guidance English vis-a-vis a diplomat's son in Bukit Tunku; further a Tamil lady upon an estate propagandize in Ulu Tiram guidance Malay to a penghulu's daughter during a inhabitant propagandize in Ulu Trengganu.
It would be wiser to focus initial upon a complaint areas, as with mending a Malay proficiency of students in vernacular schools as well as a English skills of Malays in inhabitant schools. Correct both as well as you would go a prolonged way in mending a system's altogether performance, as well as in a process prove many.
As a hurdles have been very different; a solutions as well contingency necessarily be different. For vernacular schools in all in areas where Malay is not during large spoken, devoting some-more hours to Malay as well as having bilingual (Malay as well as a vernacular language) teachers would be a some-more suitable solution.
In a kampongs however, not usually is English not during large used, there is additionally active enmity to regulating as well as guidance it. Again this is not a complaint singular to a kampongs. In Western Canada there is similar rancour towards guidance French notwithstanding it being Canada's second central language. To strike this! as well as recompense for a low turn of French use in a community, a small schools have sum soak classes where pupils would outlay their initial 3 or some-more years in classes conducted wholly in French. As a module is wholly voluntary, it is politically as well as socially palatable. As relatives discover a most advantages, a a number enrolled soars.
A similar resolution could be in use in a kampongs. Have English soak classes for a initial couple of or better yet, via a entire primary propagandize years. Introduce Malay usually during Form One. Go beyond which as well as have delegate schools which would teach half a subjects in Malay as well as a alternative half in English. Science as well as arithmetic would be a ideal subjects to teach in English. Such a propagandize would produce fluently bilingual graduates
Aware of a domestic sensitivities Malays have towards guidance English, you would have a module wholly voluntary, similar to those French soak classes in Western Canada. Kampong Malays have been as receptive as those Anglophone Western Canadians. Once those Malays see a advantages of being proficient in English, they will group to enroll their children in those soak classes.
Such schools could be a innovation worthy of emulation by alternative nations who similarly aspire to have their students be bilingual. Such Malay-English bilingual schools have been most easier to set up than Arabic-English or Mandarin-English ones as Malay as well as English share a same roman script. you would shorten such schools to usually those who already have (or can demonstrate) near-native fluency in Malay so which those students would not "forget" how to verbalise Malay.
In unsentimental terms, this was how my contemporaries as well as you learned English behind in a 1950s. English use was even most lower then, in fact nonexistent, during my home as well as community. you disciple bringing behind those English schools, though site them usually in areas with low turn of English a! s well a s tall Malay usage, as in a kampongs.
If you were to move behind a aged English schools (as a parent-group PAGE is advocating) as well as fix up them in a cities where a use of Malay is low, afterwards you would usually revive a aged complaint where students would omit Malay.
Similarly, such Malay soak classes could be used to raise a proficiency of non-Malay students, in all in communities where a use of Malay is low.
The row highlights a most islands of excellence in a propagandize system. Yes there certainly are, as with a companion as well as eccentric Chinese schools. As they have been already you do a glorious pursuit there is small need to remodel them. Instead a supervision should await them so they could raise as well as replicate their successes. Others (including as well as in all a government) would afterwards be desirous to obey them. you would levy usually a single condition for which generous open await as well as which is a a number enrolled contingency reflect a ubiquitous Malaysian society. Such a process would additionally further a single of a settled goals of a Blueprint: to raise unity between a young.
Next: Part Two: Quality Schools Begin with Quality Teachers
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Anwar's Sabah "katak" are has-beens
Bakri Musa on Education Blueprint 2013-2025 (Part 1)
September seventeen 2012
The Havoc Education Reform Inflicts: Education Blueprint 2013-2025
First of Five Parts: Education Blueprint Transparent, But Not Bold Or Comprehensive
by Dr Bakri Musa. Morgan-Hill, California
Education remodel is inflicted upon Malaysians with a rule of a monsoon. Like a storm, a massacre these "reforms" create lingers prolonged after they have upheld through.
In this five-part commentary you will critique a latest remodel bid contained in Preliminary Report: Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025released upon Sep 11, 2012. The initial 3 essays will residence a Blueprint's commentary as good as recommendations; a fourth, a omissions, as good as a last, a flaws in a process with this sold remodel effort.
The Blueprint clearly identifies a categorical problems as good as challenges during both a complement as good as individual levels, though fails to investigate why or how they came about as good as why they have been let to fester. Consequently a recommendations have been formed some-more upon conjecture rather than solid data; some-more towards generalities as good as a stating of goals rather than upon specifics as good as how to achieve those goals.
On a positive side, a goals as good as milestones (at least some of them) have been clearly stated in quantifiable terms, so you would know either they have been achieved going forward.
Despite extensive open participation as good as a inclusion of most luminaries (including foreign ones) upon a panel, a inform has most glaring omissions. It fails to residence a sold challenges facing Islamic as good as farming national schools. This is startling deliberation which a voters in both streams have been Malays, a politically powerful group. Even some-more pertinent, those schools regularly perform during a bottom quartile; they drag down a whole system. Improving them would go a prolonged way in enhancing a entire system. Yet an additional repudiation is a disaster to investigate as good as to illustrate learn from earlier remodel efforts.
This Blueprint does not live up to Najib Razak's avowal of being "bold, comprehensive as good as transparent." Transparent perhaps, though not bold or comprehensive! That is not startling as a row is dominated by polite servants. They have been partial of a complaint for so prolonged which it would be too most to expect them right away to magically be partial of a solution.
It is a quite Malaysian obsession to remodel a educational policy with a domestic season. Every brand new apportion feels compelled to do it, as if to denote his domestic manhood. Now it is Muhyiddin's turn.
Five years ago underneath Hishamuddin there was Langkah Langkah Ke Arah Cemerlangan (Steps Towards Excellence). Five years prior to which underneath Musa Mohamad was Pembangunan Pendidikan 2001-2010: Rancangan Bersepadu Penjana Cemerlangan Pendidikan (Education Development 2010-2011. Plan for Unity Through Educati! onal Exc ellence). Notice a prolonged pretentious titles as good as visit use of a word "excellence."
In a meantime generations of immature Malaysians, in all Malays, continue to pay a price for a follies of previous reforms, in sold a a single in a 1970s which did divided with English schools. Someone eventually wisened up as good as brought behind a teaching of English, despite usually in scholarship as good as mathematics. Then just as you were adjusting to as good as recuperating from which reversal, a brand new leader who suspicion himself smarter changed behind a system!
This latest remodel expelled upon Sep 11, 2012, will infer to be a 9-11 of Malaysian education. The destruction might not be as thespian visually as good as physically as a alternative 9-11, though a wreckage will be real as good as massive, with a massacre superfluous prolonged after to haunt stream as good as destiny generations. The repairs will be extensive, cumulative, as good as compounding.
As in a past, this time you have been again being promised which this storm of a remodel will wash divided a thick soiled mist which has been hovering over a schools. Yes, a air will be clearer as good as fresher after a storm, as good as a birds will sing. Meanwhile however, you have to deal with ripped roofs, inundate debris, as good as mortal landslides.
In compiling this Blueprint a supervision has commendably sought wide open participation as good as during good expense. The open in spin responded massively as good as enthusiastically, reflecting a angst over a preparation system. The row however, did not amply mind a difference in between quantity as good as quality, as good as duly gave equal time to a bombasts as good as a wise.
The Chall! enge of Quality
This Blueprint, identical to earlier ones, is already getting rave reviews from a usual quarters. Just as predictably, a year or dual from right away even prior to any of a recommendations have been fully implemented, "scholars" from a open universities will declare through their "research" which a reforms have already constructed a anticipated improvements!
We saw this when a policy of teaching scholarship as good as arithmetic in English was rescinded. Barely a year in to a module as good as "scholars" from a open universities were already trumpeting a "remarkable" alleviation in a scholarship as good as arithmetic scores in all between farming Malay students. With all those good improvements a single wonders why you need an additional reform!
This brand new Blueprint was barely expelled when Muhiyiddin voiced a brand new story curriculum, meaning, a single written by UMNO hired hands. So most for a weight given to this remodel as good as a design of formulating students able of critical as good as eccentric thinking!
No a single would argue with a Blueprint's objectives of mending access, quality, equity, unity, as good as efficiency. Consider quality; it is uppermost in everyone's mind. The supervision proudly parades a success rates during a national examinations, as with a accelerating number of A's scored. Yet when assessed by such outmost yardsticks as TIMSS as good as PISA, a students scored poorly. As a inform acknowledges, they have been during least dual to 3 grades behind their counterparts in South Korea, as good as declining.
The row glosses over this glaring curiosity as good as to illustrate fails to pull a usually as good as important conclusion: Obviously what you learn as good as how you test have been substandard; worse, you have been doing both wrong!
If your home thermometer says you do not have a heat though during a hospital you register a high fever, afterwards you should get rid of your th! ermomete r lest you would be dangerously misled in a future. If you instruct a students to be in a top third in PISA as good as TIMSS, afterwards you should initial allot with a stream curriculum as good as contrast as they do not relate (in actuality inversely correlated) with those general measurements.
Consider an additional objective, to have a students be bilingual in Malay as good as English. you determine with that; a complaint is how to achieve it. The row addresses a issue generally, though a kampong child in Ulu Kelantan faces a vastly opposite complaint in guidance English vis-a-vis a diplomat's son in Bukit Tunku; serve a Tamil lady upon an estate propagandize in Ulu Tiram guidance Malay to a penghulu's daughter during a national propagandize in Ulu Trengganu.
It would be wiser to focus initial upon a complaint areas, as with mending a Malay inclination of students in vernacular schools as good as a English skills of Malays in national schools. Correct both as good as you would go a prolonged way in mending a system's altogether performance, as good as in a process satisfy many.
As a challenges have been very different; a solutions too contingency indispensably be different. For vernacular schools in all in areas where Malay is not at large spoken, devoting some-more hours to Malay as good as carrying bilingual (Malay as good as a vernacular language) teachers would be a some-more appropriate solution.
In a kampongs however, not usually is English not at large used, there is additionally active enmity to using as good as guidance it. Again this is not a complaint unique to a kampongs. In Western Canada there is identical rancour towards guidance French despite it being Canada's second official language. To strike this as good as recompense for a low tur! n of Fre nch use in a community, some schools have total soak classes where pupils would outlay their initial 3 or some-more years in classes conducted wholly in French. As a module is wholly voluntary, it is politically as good as socially palatable. As relatives find a most advantages, a a number enrolled soars.
A identical resolution could be in use in a kampongs. Have English soak classes for a initial couple of or improved yet, throughout a entire primary propagandize years. Introduce Malay usually during Form One. Go over which as good as have delegate schools which would learn half a subjects in Malay as good as a alternative half in English. Science as good as arithmetic would be a ideal subjects to learn in English. Such a propagandize would furnish fluently bilingual graduates
Aware of a domestic sensitivities Malays have towards guidance English, you would make a module wholly voluntary, identical to those French soak classes in Western Canada. Kampong Malays have been as receptive as those Anglophone Western Canadians. Once those Malays see a advantages of being proficient in English, they will group to enroll their children in those soak classes.
Such schools could be a innovation worthy of simulation by alternative nations who similarly make an effort to have their students be bilingual. Such Malay-English bilingual schools have been most easier to set up than Arabic-English or Mandarin-English ones as Malay as good as English share a same roman script. you would restrict such schools to usually those who already have (or can demonstrate) near-native fluency in Malay so which those students would not "forget" how to speak Malay.
In practical terms, this was how my contemporaries as good as you schooled English behind in a 1950s. English use was even most lower then, in actuality nonexistent, during my home as good as community. you advocate bringing behind those English schools, though site them usually in areas with low turn of English as good as high Malay u! sage, as in a kampongs.
If you were to bring behind a aged English schools (as a parent-group PAGE is advocating) as good as locate them in a cities where a use of Malay is low, afterwards you would usually resurrect a aged complaint where students would omit Malay.
Similarly, such Malay soak classes could be used to raise a inclination of non-Malay students, in all in communities where a use of Malay is low.
The row highlights a most islands of value in a propagandize system. Yes there certainly are, as with a missionary as good as eccentric Chinese schools. As they have been already doing a superb job there is little need to remodel them. Instead a supervision should await them so they could raise as good as replicate their successes. Others (including as good as in all a government) would afterwards be inspired to obey them. you would impose usually a single condition for which generous open await as good as which is a a number enrolled contingency simulate a general Malaysian society. Such a policy would additionally serve a single of a stated goals of a Blueprint: to raise togetherness between a young.
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Cops say students violated PAA, but march peaceful
"Yes, we will investigate since they have committed an offence. Firstly, they did not inform a military which they would organize a rally.
"Secondly, they have finished a street criticism by marching in an open space," he told reporters when asked either any serve action would be taken opposite a students.
He was speaking to reporters when met near Dataran Merdeka after a rally.
Zainuddin additionally pronounced which 80 military crew were concerned in supervising a peaceful protest.
The criticism between 2.30pm to 4pm currently concerned during slightest 500 studentsmarchingfrom Masjid Jamek to Sogo Department Store through Dataran Merdeka, as well as then back to Dataran Merdeka.
Organisers claim which a little 800 students had attended a rally, though a little had assimilated along a approach after watchful during Dataran Merdeka or during Sogo.
The military did not concede a students to come in Dataran Merdeka, though otherwise did not interfere with a convene as well as helped to approach traffic.
However, a military gave a students a stern warning which they would be committing a corruption if they ensue with a convene only seconds after it began.
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On Malaysia Day, BN and Pakatan jostle for East Malaysia
The oath was sealed by PKR de facto personality Anwar Ibrahim, PAS boss Abdul Hadi Awang as well as DAP parliamentary personality Lim Kit Siang during the Chong Ling Park, Kuching this evening.
Dubbed the Kuching Declaration, the seven-point declaration noted Pakatan's promise should it take reason of Putrajaya to undertake the following:
- To revive autonomy within Sarawak as well as Sabah as well as creation the dual states equal partners.
- To enlarge national integration between Sarawak, Sabah as well as Peninsular Malaysia by the satisfactory power-sharing agreement.
- To set up the Royal Commission to finalise problems of citizenship as well as illegal immigration in Sarawak as well as Sabah.
- To revive local prevalent rights over land as well as substantiating the land commission.
- To safeguard appointment of Sarawakians as well as Sabahans as heads of government departments during the state as well as federal level, within the state.
- To enlarge oil royalties from 5 percent to twenty percent.
- To safeguard which infrastructural growth in Sarawak as well as Sabah be up to standard with Peninsular Malaysia
This was followed by speeches from Abdul Hadi, Lim as well as Anwar who derided BN for ignoring Sabah as well as Sarawak to the indicate which the dual states were the poorest in Malaysia.
Anwar pronounced which most of populace in the dual states languished in poverty whilst state officials have been rapine the state's resources as well as stealing local prevalent rights land.
Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak (left), his emissary Muhyiddin Yassin, Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud as well as Information, Communications as well as Culture Minister Rais Yatim have been scheduled to attend the huge event.
Five outstanding Malaysians would be presented with an award during the ceremony whilst another award will be handed to the organisers of the Twitter Merdeka event.
This is the third year in which Malaysia Day is recognised as the national eventuality as well as the open holiday.
Prior to 2008, Pakatan had been actively earnest to make Malaysia Day the open legal legal holiday as well as fulfil the 20-point Malaysia Agreement.
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UMNO NEGERI SEMBILAN EXCO MEMBER FIRES SHOT AT MYSTERY MAN AT HIS HOME!!!!!
49th Malaysia Day Celebrations today has been SHOCKING with unpleasant news!!!!
A Negeri Sembilan EXCO part of from Malaysia Politics has been purported to have SHOT a bullet from his pistol at a mystery man at his home in Seremban a integrate of days ago.
DAP Youth chief as well as MP for Rasah, Anthony Loke Siew Fook had created in his twitter a moment ago that (in Malay):
@anthonylokeDpt info seorang ahli EXCO NS melepaskan 1 das tembakan dirumahnya. Minta Polis NS siasat segera spt mana kes life guard DSAI"
Meanwhile his facebook post is (in Malay):
Saya mendapat maklumat dari sumber yang boleh dipercayai bahawa seorang Ahli Majlis Mesyuarat Kerajaan Negeri (EXCO) Negeri Sembilan dari Malaysia Politics telah melepaskan satu das tembakan melalui pistolnya ke arah seorang lelaki misteri di rumahnya di Seremban dalam satu pergelutan beberapa hari yang lepas. Saya harap tidak ada usaha untuk "cover up" kes ini oleh pihak berkuasa dan siasatan terperinci mesti dijalankan serta merta. Kalau kes mengacukan pistol yang melibatkan life guard Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim diberikan perhatian serius oleh pihak polis, maka kes ini juga perlu disiasat dengan segera!
Out of a 10 EXCO members, all from a BN, 8 members are from Malaysia Politics whilst withdrawal 1 part of from MCA, that is represented by ADUN Chennah, Siow Chen Pin whilst an additional 1 is ADUN Jeram Padang from MIC, who is VS Mogan.
Anthony Loke advise a Negeri Sembilan Police to act rught away upon a EXCO part of from Malaysia Politics, since a integrate of days a! go, Oppo sition leader, Anwar Ibrahim's life guard was arrested for allegingly carrying forked his pistol at a kampong folks, but had NOT FIRED ANY SHOTS.
Negeri Sembilan CPO, Osman Salleh has not since his surprise upon a situation as well as is believed that he is available for a police investigation upon a matter.
Meanwhile, Menteri Besar Negeri Sembilan, Mohamad Hasan who is additionally related to Malaysia Politics Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin refuse to comment upon a situation as well as had additionally refuse to surprise a EXCO part of from Malaysia Politics who is concerned whilst anticipating a person concerned would willingly obey to a police to control their investigation in to a matter.
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PAS assures Hindraf better life for Indians
Athi Shankar | Sep 15, 2012 (FMT)
Waythamoorthy has a cultivatable assembly with spiritual personality Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat as good as it could pave way for clever electoral ties in in between Pakatan as good as Hindraf
GEORGE TOWN: PAS has positive Hindraf Makkal Sakti which marginalised ethnic Malaysian Indians would have a improved destiny if Pakatan Rakyat captures Putrajaya in a subsequent election.
PAS spiritual personality Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat positive which "things would be opposite underneath Pakatan" to Hindraf supremo P Waythamoorthy during a assembly upon Thursday morning.
Hindraf inhabitant coordinator W Sambulingam pronounced Waythamoorthy had explained to Nik Aziz of a human rights violations against a Indian village underneath Umno's misrule.
He pronounced Waythamoorthy told a PAS personality how most operative category Indians have been released as good as isolated from a country's mainstream development since independence.
"Tuan Guru Nik Aziz listened attentively upon a predicament of marginalised Indians lifted by Waythamoorthy.
"The Menteri Besar was symphatetic as good as positive us which underneath Pakatan rule things would be different," pronounced Sambulingam.
The private assembly in in between Nik Aziz as good as Waythamoorthy was held at a Kelantan Menteri Besar's home.
As Nik Aziz was not feeling well, a meeting, creatively scheduled at a Menteri Besar's office, was moved to a PAS leader's home.
Waythamoorthy additionally held a apart assembly with PAS clamp boss as good as Kelantan senior manager councillor Husam Musa in his Kota Bahru bureau a same day.
PAS emissary boss Mohamad Sabu was present.
Sambulingam p! ronounce d Waythamoorthy as good as a PAS leaders held discussions upon forging electoral ties in in between Hindraf as good as Pakatan to face Barisan Nasional.
Win-win partnership
Waythamoorthy additionally positive Husam as good as Mat Sabu which Hindraf was willing to deploy a members as elections volunteers for Pakatan in Selangor, Perak, Kedah as good as Negeri Sembilan.
"Waythamoorthy reiterated Hindraf's commitment to assistance Pakatan upon a understanding which there should be a vital win-win partnership in in between a parties," pronounced Sambulingam.
Waythamoorthy has additionally briefed both leaders upon a displacement of about 800,000 estate workers since a 70s due to a country's unethical urbanisation programme.
Sambulingam pronounced Waythamoorthy told them which these estate workers were systematically released from a government's mainstream socio-economic master plan for decades.
He combined which a PAS leaders were enlightened upon how estate workers were denied land, residence as good as money compensations as good as even pursuit opportunities.
"Waythamoorthy explained how estate workers were relegated from a colourful pool of human resources to lost urban poor," pronounced Sambulingam.
The Hindraf chair additionally highlighted a predicament of about 350,000 stateless Indians, who were denied proper jobs or education, own properties as good as even get their marriages registered.
Both a meetings were facilitated by Mat Sabu.
Waythamoorthy, who returned to Malaysia upon Aug 1 after a five-year self-imposed stay in London, additionally met DAP inhabitant authority Karpal Singh in Penang upon Aug 12.
Waythamoorthy thanked Karpal for his support as good as authorised benefit to a Hindraf activists who were incarcerated but trial underneath a now repealed Internal Security Act.
The ! assembly in in between Waythamoorthy, a heading Indian rights romantic as good as Muslim leaders from PAS could pave way for a clever electoral ties in in between Pakatan as good as Hindraf.
If it happens, Hindraf could assistance lean lost Indian votes from BN, boosting Pakatan chances to capture federal powers in subsequent election.
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