Juma’ani gives bubur pedas, donations to Sarawakians in KL
KUCHING: A total of 500 packets of bubur pedas were distributed at the Yayasan Sarawak office in Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, here today. Present to distribute the porridge to Sarawak students from GENIUS@Pintar College, higher education institutions, Persatuan Mualaf Johor (Sarawak), and others was the Premier’s wife Puan Sri Datuk Amar Juma’ani Tuanku Bujang. At […]
Unimas backs Ministry of Higher Education’s recommendations
KUCHING: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) concurs with the Ministry of Higher Education’s (MoHE) recommendations for the country’s higher education to take a quantum leap and become more effective. According to Unimas vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Mohamad Kadim Suaidi on Friday (Feb 3), federal Minister of Higher Education, Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin included a number […]
Towards textbook obscurity
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. – Mark Twain, American author Slouching towards textbook obscurity is the pre-occupation of the host of guarantees offered by the State to benefit its citizens, but it is robustly rejuvenated temporarily during National Day or Independence Day celebrations. Meanwhile capitalist higher education institutions spare […]
Politeknik Kuching Sarawak graduates enjoy high employment rate
KUCHING: Between 90 and 95 per cent of Politeknik Kuching Sarawak (PKS) students found employment upon graduation, says director Hikmatullah Hajid Ahmad Khan. “Based on the marketability statistics of graduates since 2017, the trend showed that the employment rate in 2017 was 97.2 percent, 97.7 percent (2018) and 91.1 percent (2019). “Meanwhile, the remaining per […]
Great achievements by Swinburne despite pandemic
KUCHING: Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus ended last year on a good note with a significant number of achievements despite the global disruption to the education landscape caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The university retains its five-star rating for ‘very competitive’ higher education institutions in Malaysia (Setara 2018/2019), based on a rating system set […]
The qwerty factor
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle, Greek philosopher Programming, conditioning and indoctrination make us who we are to sustain us from womb to tomb through original genetic structure, family, community and ultimately peer pressure. As I see it, human actions are […]
Scammed by ‘student’
MIRI: A private higher education institution here lost more than RM24,000 when it was duped by a scammer pretending to be one of its students requesting for a refund. According to Miri police chief ACP Lim Meng Seah, when contacted today, a police report on the matter was lodged by the institution last Friday. “The […]
