Great leaders make good speeches

One of the qualities of a great leader is his skill in delivering speeches.

The importance of public speaking in spreading effective messages or gathering the support of the community to shift society’s paradigm towards a dynamic way of thinking.
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BUT how far teaching system in Malaysia can produce good public speakers? mainly very quiet students, speechless, less critical and objective oriented.

10 ways to walk off fat faster

Here’s how to boost your calorie-burn big time—without much extra effort.


1. Get some poles
2. Skip killer hills
3. Use your arms
4. Take smaller steps
5. Set goals you can see
6. Wipe the pavement
7. Go shoe shopping
8. Stand straight
9. Raise your rate
10. Add strength

World Class University

May be some universities have forgotten about world class university when they are busy with high impact factor journal, commercialisation of products, patenting findings and winning competitions.
In the process of globalisation, internationalisation and lifting towards the world class university, local universities need to be very careful in appointing leaders from the bottom coordinators, head departments, deans, directors. etc. Not just cash and carry. May be need to be selected seed, germinate, grow, pruning and harvest.

Early Exposure in Recent Advance Research in Biology

Eight Kolej Mara Kuala Nerang were exposed to a recent advance research in biology for one month. This short research attachment as part of their mobility programme in IPTA. All these students are among the special candidate to study abroad.

This programme is good and can be used as part of Nobel laureates programme in Malaysia. Unfortunately the activities was not organised properly. MARA, Kolej Mara and IPTA should play roles in this activities and utilise all one month to prepare them as a good researchers in the future.

MyEUlink

How to get an international grants such as from EU?
1. Develop yourself with good research and publications
2. Develop contact with good researchers in EU
3. Develop common interest
4. Foreign researchers will collaborate in subjects that they are interested
5. Willing to support and help them.

BUT

Why we need their grants?

To transfer our data overseas?
To gain technologies?

OR

we can use our local grants to develop our own research. Just give small money to all researchers, priority topics to the right persons/groups and top down grants to identified capable groups and right leadership.

Special grants to a young researcher and guided by a seniour professors, develop their capabilities, networking and support them with effective monitoring system.

Iranian scientists targeted in car bombings

By Thomas Erdbrink
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

TEHRAN - A prominent Iranian nuclear scientist was killed Monday and a second was seriously wounded in nearly simultaneous car bomb attacks in the Iranian capital, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

The explosions, which occurred near Shahid Beheshti University, were the latest in a string of recent assassination attempts in which five doctors and professors have been killed in Tehran.
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Why Scientists? They are searching for hidden knowledge

Research Integrity, Science and Publication Ethics

In order to produce good quality of future scientists, current professors must have integrity in research, value of science and publication ethics. If the achievement of researchers or academician are measured by the number of publications only, not research quality, contribution to science and dissemination of knowledge to public, the quality of future scientists will be questioned and the quality of promoted academicians is wrongly judged.