Dr Mat

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Retaining wall collapes and slope slides: I have this experience when I was Pengetua Kolej. Monitoring is very important or good for students training subjects. BUT why in UPM? Expert, concern, monitoring, procedures of action are important. Do we have the structures and systems? UPM just got new Vice Chancellor with agriculture/biology base taking over from former Vice Chancellor with Engineering background.

Retaining wall at UPM collapses, crushing seven motorcycles

KUALA LUMPUR: Heavy rain since afternoon caused a retaining wall to collapse at Kolej Serumpun, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang near here Friday.

The 1.5m high wall collapsed about 6pm, crushing seven motorcycles parked at a lot nearby.

However, there was no report of any casualty and the incident did not affect the hostel block at Kolej Serumpun.

Selangor Fire and Rescue assistant director (Operations) Mohd Sani Harul said an engine with six firemen from the Serdang station went to the scene after receiving a call at 6.30pm and arrived there 12 minutes later.

According to a specialist in engineering geology at UPM, Dr Husaini Omar, the wall collapsed due to the presence of trapped water in the soil. - Bernama

A conflict between lecturers integrity, academic freedom, system, students satisfaction, monitoring and reporting, and academic culture.

In the university, teaching and learning is between lecturers and the students. Students are assess their performance based on their performance, knowledge and skill by the lecturers. Their contact and communication is important. But now how to report and monitor this activities. Lecturers integrity is important. If the integrity is questioned therefore the systems need to be developed. Now the lecturers are fulfill the system demand instead of teaching the students. The system no longer assessing the students but assessing the lecturers are doing their job on time or not.
we need to think how to make teaching and learning in the university working not flowing the school culture.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Academic culture in our local university still not very clear. May be those who just came back from top university in the world can share about the academic culture overseas. We need to change, not just repeating same papers in diffrent journals and get promoted.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Fireworks every where for new year celebration including Myanma

Heavy metals pollution in the air!

New Year Challenge: We need good leaders (knowledge, honest, committed, skill, brave, experience,....) to face new life style towards developed country, high income society, foreign workers dependent, new era criminal, etc. Education is very important both at schools and univesities levels. First respect the professors!

Woman: Boy molested me

MALACCA: A 28-year-old woman has claimed that she was molested by a 13-year-old boy inside the female toilet of a petrol kiosk at Jalan Munshi Abdullah.

Four killed, four injured in two road mishaps

PEKAN: Four men were killed and four others were injured in two separate accidents, near here and in Kuantan early Tuesday morning.

Couple and son found dead in house

JOHOR BARU: A couple and their son were found dead at their house in Kampung Jawa, Pengerang, near Kota Tinggi on Tuesday.

Teacher files suit over transfer

ALOR SETAR: A teacher has filed a suit against the Langkawi District Education officer and four others over his transfer to another school, saying the transfer caused him to suffer from depression last year.

Suspected wire thief falls to death from school building

KOTA TINGGI: A suspected wire thief was found dead at Sekolah Kebangsaan Tun Dr Syed Nasir, Felda Pasak, here on Tuesday, apparently having fallen from a three-storey building of the school.

CAP wants MCMC to investigate ‘dropped calls’

GEORGE TOWN: The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) wants the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to investigate as soon as possible the dropped calls often experienced by users of mobile telephones.

JAIP nabs 13 couples for ‘khalwat’ on New Year’s eve

KUANTAN: The Enforcement Division of the Pahang Islamic Religious Department (JAIP) caught 13 unmarried couples between 18 and 25 years old in a Syariah crime prevention operation after the 2013 New Year Eve celebrations.

Six held for causing commotion at New Year’s eve concert

SHAH ALAM: A 15-year-old Johorean and five Indonesians were arrested following a commotion at a New Year's eve concert Monday.

Supermarket technician shot dead on the way home

SEREMBAN: A supermarket technician here was shot to death by one of two men on a motorcycle as he was on his way home in Taman Merpati, Rahang, Monday.

Number of flood evacuees rise in Terengganu and Kelantan

KUALA LUMPUR: The second wave of floods has sent 1,524 people to evacuation centres in Terengganu and Kelantan, while Pahang saw a drop in the number of evacuees to 59 as at 9am Tuesday.

Bukit Setiawangsa’s evacuees worried about looting

KUALA LUMPUR: Bukit Setiawangsa residents have alerted the police about attempted burglaries at the houses evacuated after a landslide on Friday.

Malaysia among world's top 10 tourist destinations: may be UPM too can be one of tourists destination to show agriculture and garden products. UPM is known for its green and agricultural products from teaching to farming.

Kuala Lumpur (The Star/ANN) - Malaysia was one of the world's top 10 tourist destinations last year, making it the only South-East Asian country to make the list in the United Nations World Trade Organisation Tourism Highlights 2012.

In 2009, the country recorded 23.6 million tourists arrival and in 2010, the number increased to 24.6 million.

Topping the list was France with 79 million tourist arrivals, followed by United States [62 million], China [58 million], Spain [57 million], Italy [46 million], Turkey [29.3 million], United Kingdom [29.2 million] and Germany [28.4 million].
Rounding up the top 10 was Mexico with 23.4 million tourists. The report also ranked Malaysia 14th in terms of international tourism receipts with US$18.3billion (56.3 ringgit) last year, ahead of countries such as Singapore, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea and Canada. In 2009 and 2010, Malaysia recorded US$15.8 billion (48.6 billion ringgit) and US$18.2 billion.