1. This week I met a professor of zoology from Egypt, and in the midst of our conversation he told me Malaysia has too few public universities for a progressive nation of more than 25 millions populations
2. I was shocked when he said that and went on to ask him to explain. He said
a) There is a University of Malaya. He had spent his sabattical there
b) University of Sultan Idris at Tanjung Malim
c) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
d) There are too many campuses of the University of Malaysia, more than the campuses of University of London and University of California .....Campus Putra Malaysia at Serdang, Teknologi Malaysia in Johor, Melaka, Sains Malaysia in Penang, Northern in Kedah, one in Perlis, Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang, Darul Iman in Terengganu, Sabah and Sarawak
3. I tried to correct him by saying we have a few more, Universiti Tun Hussin Onn in Johor, all those he mentioned are universities on their own NOT branch campuses of the Universiti of Malaysia
4. He asked me, don't tell me we don't have names of kings, sultans, prime ministers, philosophers to name them .... or why don't we name after the name of the states like in the US?
5. I shut up because to use the excuses of the Ministry of Education then when it named the various universities was too silly ......I bet when there will be universities in cities like Ipoh, Kuantan, Kuching ...the Ministry will name a few more branches such as Universiti Kuantan Malaysia, Universiti Ipoh Malaysia and Universiti Kuching Malaysia ....and Universiti Parang Puting Malaysia .....
6. Such as a Malaysian mentality
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our state not a big as in US or UK...if our gov think want to add more Univ...i dont think its goin to be full because most of our young generation especially male prefer going to pusat serenti and prison...why? statistics shows increment number of drug addicts and mat rempit...
Deal All
The point I am trying to raise are as follows:
1. It is quite rational for every state to have a university for her pride. A state needs a place to have her citizens educated. However, the name should not be Universiti Malaysia. What's wrong with the names Universiti Terengganu, Universiti Kelantan, Universiti Perlis, Universiti Pahang, etc.
2. Now, we have 4 Research universities, let's look after these so that they could compete with other Asian counterparts, forget about those in Europe and USA
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