Sharifah Munirah Alatas says there is an infatuation with ‘market-driven’ courses in the local higher education sector.
“These psychological tactics have resulted in two opposing phenomena today: first, a majority of Malays have gradually learnt to be very accommodating of leadership, despite glaring transgressions; second, a majority of non-Malays feel progressively alienated from society, despite their obvious positive contribution to the development of the country and their comfortable economic status,” Munirah said in her speech at a mentor programme for junior academics at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak here.
“Syed Hussein would have commented that such a congress is racist and should not have been organised in the first place. It only feeds into the post-colonial agenda, which is a continuation of British colonialism in pre-1957 Malaya.” “What our education ministry fails to understand is that more emphasis on science, technology and engineering in higher education will not attract businesses and foreign investment if our society continues to be mired in moral, religious, racial and ethnic tensions,” she added.
“The global reality is, though, that sectarian violence, civil wars, poverty, environmental degradation and economic backwardness in the global south are not the result of a lack of scientists and engineers,” she said.But Munirah also warned about “keyboard pseudo-intellectuals” who would impress the nation’s leaders and the laymen.
At some point in time..There some who will always go back to their roots..To the tree tops or caves or even fringes of the shores where the loved the daily fishing..Thus the proverb ' Kais mkn pagi,Kais mkn petang'..Intellectualism is something 4 the civil society..Passion abt..
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