Healthy life on campus, exercise and diet management is important to look at. Department of Biology took the initiative together with cocacola expert in nutrition. UPM-Cocacola will launch Recycle to cycle programme in October 2012 to promote healthy life on campus.

Another collaboration and future mou between Srinakharinwirot University (SWU) Bangkok on scientists exchange, resrachi collaboration on medaka fishes

 Prof Wichian is an expert in medaka fishes and always refered by the worlds experts. We are very lucky to recieve his visit to Biology Department. Eventhough this laboratory in Biology Department is small and not proper, but this is the only laboratory in the world keeping two specific and unique species of medaka. How far UPM value this. Unfortunately they are still blurr. How can we say they are the expert panels to assess fundamental science research in Malaysia. No wonder we are behind in science compared to the world class university as admitted by the prime minister in his education blueprint launching to day. We are relying on actors and actress scientists.

Today we have the first national assessment for the primary school, UPSR. Too much exam oriented, bording school mentality, klusterism andacademic assessment results oriented. the children already separated from the begining according to their yearly examination, pampered the good students and lost hope for the poor students. Is this another cruelty for human kind? or we will lost a lot of talent from early age.

 lower cast with worries will lower down the schools achievement

 good cast in separate examination hall and pampered with full hope for schools ranking

Read the article below extracted from the Star. Chech the challenges in this blueprint. How far we supported and implementing our education system. OR we discussing similar issues since we set our education policy.

These are the key points of the National Education Blueprint:

* Blueprint focuses on six student attributes - Knowledge, Thinking Skills, Leadership, Bilingual Proficiency, Ethics and National Identity

* To achieve desired student outcomes, reform of education system to be approached in 11 shifts

* Shift 1: Provide equal access to quality education of an international standard. Initiatives under Shift 1 - revised curriculum for schools in 2017 and option for high achieving students to finish school earlier.

* Shift 2. Ensure every child is proficient in Bahasa Malaysia and English language. Under Shift 2, 70,000 English teachers to sit for Cambridge Placement Test and be given training to improve language proficiency.

* Standard Bahasa Malaysia curriculum for all both government and vernacular primary schools - goal to abolish 'remove' class in secondary schools by 2017

*Shift 3: Develop values-driven Malaysians - plans of expanding the Student Integration Plan for Unity (RIMUP) programme for students

* Shift 4: Transform teaching into profession of choice. Only top 30% of graduates will be recruited for teaching. Also new career package and reduced administrative duties for teachers.

* Shift 5: Ensure high-performing school leaders in every school

* Shift 6: Empower state and district Education Departments and schools to customise solutions based on need - they can tailor their approach for different schools.

* Shift 7: Leverage ICT to scale up quality learning across Malaysia. Ministry to expand 1Bestari (Wifi) to all schools.

* Shift 8: Transform Education Ministry delivery capabilities and capacity so that there is no overlap of function and more streamlined.

* Shift 9: Partner with parents, community and private sector at scale. Parents will be able to monitor student progress online through School Examination Analysis System (SAPS) system. Five hundred trust schools to be set up

* Shift 10: Maximise student outcomes for every ringgit. To ensure "outcome-based budgeting" with government spending on education

* Shift 11: Increase transparency for direct public accountability. Blueprint and progress of its goals will be made public

* First wave: Blueprint implementation, there will be more support for teachers and focus on core student skills

* Second wave: Build upon progress.

* Third wave: From 2020 - 2025, schools will have autonomy to handle their own administration

Politician made a lot of statements on the improvement of education system in Malaysia and preparing for developed country in 2020. How far the administrators, managers, teachers and leaders are listening and taking actions. OR just a ceremonial and singing like a singers. What changes may be the salary scheme, allowances, promotion, but no teachers attending courses to improve teaching, translating the curriculum and subject matters.

The Star: Tuesday September 11, 2012 MYT 10:07:00 AM
Updated: Tuesday September 11, 2012 MYT 7:18:00 PM

Education blueprint: Only the best will get to be teachers.

KUALA LUMPUR: Only the best graduates will get to be teachers, according to the highly-anticipated National Education Blueprint (2013-2025) launched Tuesday.

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said one of the aims of the education overhaul was to transform teaching into a profession of choice.

The Star: Tuesday September 11, 2012 MYT 11:34:00 AM
Updated: Tuesday September 11, 2012 MYT 6:56:28 PM

Education blueprint: Master languages, especially English, says PM

A conflict of ideas and principles: University to produce intellect or businessman? Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Related Minister must understand the function of the university and the direction of the country. In develop country do we need entrepreneur or managers, professionals, scientists, high skills personel......or just pasar malam operators?

The Star: Tuesday September 11, 2012 MYT 4:25:00 PM

KPI for all vice chancellors to begin immediately

By EMBUN MAJID

SINTOK: Vice chancellors at all public universities in the country will be evaluated based on a Key Performance Index (KPI) introduced by the Higher Learning Institution, with immediate effect.

Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said Tuesday the KPI was based on the ability of each vice-chancellor to ensure the success of entrepreneurship education programmes for their students as part of an effort to produce better quality graduates.

“We have discussed the matter and are now going to implement it. We have agreed that the entrepreneurship programme must be implemented in all courses offered at a university and the vice-chancellor of the university must be responsible for its success,” he said.

Mohamed Khaled said this during a press conference after officiating the three new academic blocks of the School of Multimedia, Technology and Communication, School of Quantitative Science and School of Technology Management and Logistics at Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) here.

Also attending the function was UUM vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Mohamed Mustafa Ishak.

Mohamad Khaled said the entrepreneurship programme was aimed at helping students survive after they graduated from a university, especially if they chose to start their own businesses

Jati diri, integriti and semangat kebangsaan: Rupabentuk lapangan terbang, barang yang dijual, makanan, tarikan pelancong, layanan, ketrampilan dan gaya kakitangan dilapangan terbang menggambarkan kualiti bangsa negara berkenaan. Apakah jenis dan rupa ketrampilan yang boleh ditunjukkan oleh kita untuk negara kita? MERDEKA!!!

Bangkok International Airport gate E

Sticky rice with manggo and coconut milk....mmmmmmm nice