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Why is Teaching a Stressful Job?!

Got these from my collection of forward mails. It makes me laugh every time i go through these images. No wonder teaching can be very stressful if you don’t know how to take it "seriously" hehehe. Click each image to enlarge for easy viewing.

Malaysia - Exam-Oriented Nation?

Whenever the word “kiasu” is mentioned, people will immediately think of Singapore and of course Singaporeans’ all-must-win attitude. But hey, believe it or not, i think Malaysia is now overtaking our neigbour as far as the level of kiasuism is concern. First, we “build” our own cars, then we have the world’s once tallest building. [...]

Malaysian varsities fail to make top 200

I read this article (shown below) from NST and thought that the situation highlighted should have been expected since nothing much has been done to address the problems in our local varsities. Ministry of Higher Education with its new Higher Education Blue Print should do something fast and save our universities from dropping its standards [...]

In Malaysia, teachers have to go to “war” alone

I am very much attracted to the comments given by Dhaliwal as appeared on NST (July 24) on "What is a teacher to do?". It’s true that parents nowadays are pampering their children too much, and putting all the responsibilities of educating their children on the teachers’ shoulder. However, I am not blaming the parents [...]