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Changing attitudes
Posted by TC
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
2:44 PM
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Education News-Malaysia
An excellent summary of current attitudes towards sex and sex education in Malaysia in The Nut Graph http://thenutgraph.com/article-4757.html , found the stats from the NST survey a bit of a shocker though.
Meanwhile, The Star Online interviewed some of the country's top brains for a news feature on changing our education system, here's an excerpt:
"According to the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research executive director Datuk Dr Mohammed Ariff Abdul Kareem, human capital is a scarce commodity in the country.
“We have acute shortage of professionals because our education system is not and has not been producing skills and talents that fit into the mainstream of modern business,” he says.
Indeed, the human-capital base is nurtured from the early ages through all levels in the education system. But one of the major concerns plaguing the Malaysian education system is that it has not changed very much from one that is based on rote-learning to one that promotes critical thinking." Read the rest here.
So the education system needs to move away from rote-learning and exam myopia....hello, has anyone out there (you know who you are) been LISTENING to what EDUCATORS have been saying for the last TWENTY YEARS? Make no mistake, I'm a big fan of economists (especially those who tell it as it is), but it's not exactly NEWS is it?
How about MAKING the changes and giving the media something to really chew on for once?
I rest my case.
Meanwhile, The Star Online interviewed some of the country's top brains for a news feature on changing our education system, here's an excerpt:
"According to the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research executive director Datuk Dr Mohammed Ariff Abdul Kareem, human capital is a scarce commodity in the country.
“We have acute shortage of professionals because our education system is not and has not been producing skills and talents that fit into the mainstream of modern business,” he says.
Indeed, the human-capital base is nurtured from the early ages through all levels in the education system. But one of the major concerns plaguing the Malaysian education system is that it has not changed very much from one that is based on rote-learning to one that promotes critical thinking." Read the rest here.
So the education system needs to move away from rote-learning and exam myopia....hello, has anyone out there (you know who you are) been LISTENING to what EDUCATORS have been saying for the last TWENTY YEARS? Make no mistake, I'm a big fan of economists (especially those who tell it as it is), but it's not exactly NEWS is it?
How about MAKING the changes and giving the media something to really chew on for once?
I rest my case.
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