KUALA LUMPUR: Only 6,600 pupils out of 95,286 applicants will join boarding schools in January. Education director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom said the names of successful applicants would be announced today. “The details will be posted on the ministry’s website, www.moe.gov.my, while unsuccessful pupils can file their appeals online via e-rayuan,” he said in a [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 19 – Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) school leavers and those with equivalent qualifications applying for admission to public institutions of higher learning (IPTA) for the 2010/2011 academic session are required to do so online. The application will be implemented in two phases with phase one started on Nov 2 till Dec 31 [...]

PETALING JAYA, Dec 11 — The Cabinet today gave the green light to Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr. S.Subramaniam to continue holding discussions with the Education Ministry in resolving the dispute over the ministry’s decision to cap the subjects for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination. Dr Subramaniam said the Cabinet had requested him to [...]

KUALA LUMPUR – The Ministry of Education has decided to introduce 60 more cluster schools , bringing the number of cluster schools to 120.  The move is believed to enhance national school’s position in the nation with a total number of 36 primary and 84 secondary schools being awarded such status in 3 phases. Cluster [...]

Students around Malaysia are  now having their school holidays which will extend until next year.  The 2010 school term start on 3 Jan 2010 for Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu while other schools in other states nationwide will start their new term on the 4 January 2010. Director General of Education, Dr Alimuddin said on 7 [...]

PUTRAJAYA – The Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) results show an overall improvement this year compared to last year, with the overall national average grade increasing by one per cent, Education Director-General Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom said. “The number of pupils scoring all As increases to 9.51 per cent this year compared to 9.19 [...]

Since Kuching is the very first city in Borneo to have a 3D Movie Hall, I took the opportunity to catch G-Force in 3D at MBO tHe Spring.

I may be the 100th person doing such a review about the latest cinema in Kuching, but what the hell.  I’ll do it anyway.  So, if you guys have read about MBO Kuching in my previous post, then you know about how excited I was when I knew it would be opening. Well, I wasn’t [...]

I got this news from Anna actually.  Yeah.. I know, I am kind of out-dated.  Been busy with work, that I’ve little time to surf and get notice of the world around me… and when I finally have the time, I’m already considered out-dated.

KUALA LUMPUR: There are many positive reasons to limit the number of SPM subjects to 10, including the fact that it could overcome the shortage of teachers, Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said. He said statistics showed that almost 90% of students took 10 subjects anyway. “It all comes down to how we want [...]