The role of universities has changed over the last decade; students no longer go to universities for only information or knowledge; they have the internet and online courses for that.
In my previous article “The dark side of education” published in this column last year, I discussed that the tutoring in academic subjects provided by tutors for financial gains in addition to mainstream schooling, more commonly referred to locally as “tuition”, is a far bigger industry than meets the eye.
In his book Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky argues that following the Second World War, dramatic economic development had created an excess of free time.
In educating non-native English-speaking adult learners, it is necessary to accept students as they are and not make false assumptions about their interests, knowledge and aptitudes. In the case of an inaugural cohort of the Master of Human Resource Management (MHRM) at Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, the students were state government sponsored adult learners who are non-native English speakers.
Google Scholar Scopus ORCIDBiographyProfessor Lim Weng Marc is an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology’s home campus in Melbourne, Australia, and international branch campus in Sarawak, Malaysia, which offers business degrees accredited by Australia’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), …
The next Science2Society talk by Malaysian space entrepreneurs is about landing SE Asia’s first small-scale aircraft on the moon. What’s more, as part of the entry of the Google Lunar X Prize, 90% had to be privately funded and the engineers learnt fast about crowdfunding.
The frequent publicity on the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in the local newspapers recently was somehow negatively portrayed for the organisation’s four-month suspension of a Malaysian oil palm conglomerate’s RSPO certification.
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The term “investment” can not only be used in the financial world but is also applicable in language learning and an individual’s identity (a person’s views of him/herself based upon how s/he relates to society).
