Umno-ise Academics and Students ??
Finally, UMNO is making a move into academics cricles as well as students!
A Kedah delegate at the UMNO annual gathering points out that "the government has yet to set up an institute to ensure that university academicians and staff toe the Umno line" and he is "concerned that the next generations (will graduate) without having been Umno-ised".
The said delegate alleged that universities such as Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) are "opposition strongholds which stood in the way of goals set by the Umno-led government". He also urged the government to "set up a National Academy of Higher Education so that academics can absorb and be reminded of the policies of the government".
Another Puteri member were smart enough to twist her own words in her move to call for the "establishment of a monitoring body to monitor Malay university students and ensure that they are effectively molded into "glocal" Malays" (why only Malay students?).
The way I see it, there is still a sizeable portion of UMNO members who still thinks that the whole world owes them a living. Furthermore, they hope to bring this kind of twisted logic to other Malays (may or may not be UMNO members) to gain their sympathy and support. This group of people have a weird idea of making everyone a programmable robot so that they are easily controlled and easily maneuvered to achieve some selfish agenda.
Look at the quality of the local graduates for the past few years for example, how many of those unemployed were the products of our local education system? And how many of them are Malays? Why did they become so un-employable? Do they have the capability of independent thinking? Or are they merely mindless robots produced by local universities?
I hope Malaysians at large will wake up from this nightmare we are experiencing now and face up to reality, which might be another nightmare by itself. Well, at least we are not dreaming our lives away...
And yet the UMNO-led government is trying to keep politics out of the sacred education ground...
A Kedah delegate at the UMNO annual gathering points out that "the government has yet to set up an institute to ensure that university academicians and staff toe the Umno line" and he is "concerned that the next generations (will graduate) without having been Umno-ised".
The said delegate alleged that universities such as Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) are "opposition strongholds which stood in the way of goals set by the Umno-led government". He also urged the government to "set up a National Academy of Higher Education so that academics can absorb and be reminded of the policies of the government".
Another Puteri member were smart enough to twist her own words in her move to call for the "establishment of a monitoring body to monitor Malay university students and ensure that they are effectively molded into "glocal" Malays" (why only Malay students?).
The way I see it, there is still a sizeable portion of UMNO members who still thinks that the whole world owes them a living. Furthermore, they hope to bring this kind of twisted logic to other Malays (may or may not be UMNO members) to gain their sympathy and support. This group of people have a weird idea of making everyone a programmable robot so that they are easily controlled and easily maneuvered to achieve some selfish agenda.
Look at the quality of the local graduates for the past few years for example, how many of those unemployed were the products of our local education system? And how many of them are Malays? Why did they become so un-employable? Do they have the capability of independent thinking? Or are they merely mindless robots produced by local universities?
I hope Malaysians at large will wake up from this nightmare we are experiencing now and face up to reality, which might be another nightmare by itself. Well, at least we are not dreaming our lives away...
And yet the UMNO-led government is trying to keep politics out of the sacred education ground...
posted by Egghead at
10:11 AM
1 Typical Response:
The recent debate regarding the re-introduction of the NEP has generated a lot of opinion.
Let me cast my two cents worth on this issue.
To some race(chinese,indian) the NEP is a outright discrimination against them as it gave preferential treatment to one race against the other.
Given the recent bombing in London and the findings that the bomber themselves are educated/live in Britain yet subscribe to such an extreme cause to the extent of terrorism trigger a process of soul searching across the societies as we ponder our role in turning supposedly decent young man against them.
The young men is not intrinsically evil nor does he live in poverty or unemployment.
These are men with family, education,job. Yet they choose to give it all up and give in to their belief.
Belief to fight for the marginalised all the while not fathoming their own action.
Although I don't condone their action,there is a dire need for us to dig deeper to understand their grievances.
Grievances such as policy that discriminate,bias,unfair.Policy such as NEP itself.Policy that will lead ppl to the extreme side of the belief/cause.
However,even with the above said it might still better to hv the NEP than not after knowing of the bombing in Bali,Madrid,London and recently Egypt.
The reason being is some races or religion ppl seem more inclined to the extreme cause if they feel that they themselves is being marginalised by the current situation although after 30 years of NEP still didn't manage to pull their status up in the society.
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