So after all, we are spending money in building new campus and also spending money looking on how to solve the problem on how to place these unemployed graduates.

This is our government, our system and our everyday life, where everything is not based on meritocracy but only on getting votes for the next election and support from certain races to form government.

As for kampong kampus, i fully agreed with this term, as i was in a public university before, and now visited some universities at overseas, i would say we are way behind them and to catch them, we need reforms, money, time and also intectual thinking to be with them, however, with current situation in malaysia, it would be impossible.

And i would agreed with Amit on the degree description, however, we still need this piece of paper to enter the ruthless world of business, as we are not from rich family, but consider how many good scorer each year are denied entry to our only public universities, so this is where our education system going to be.

That is just my perception. I wonder if any body has done some kind of systematic study on how Malaysian society perceive university degrees…..

There was a parent who commented in a local (Malaysian) paper several months ago about how lecturers should not be wasting time in research and focus on teaching (and only teaching). I wish I had kept it so I can properly quote on it, but some people here might remember it.

That is sadly how the public sees universities, and that, sadly, is how I remembered it, too. Though there’s that chatty master student who spent a year longer than his peers and built his 5 movement-axis robot - *grin* - he is, however, in the minority.

I think that article highlights far more than anything what the situation is.

That is sadly how the public sees universities, and that, sadly, is how I remembered it, too. Though there’s that chatty master student who spent a year longer than his peers to and built his 5 movement-axis robot - *grin* - he is, however, in the minority.

I think that article highlights far more than anything what the situation is.

IBM spends more on R&D than what South Korea spends on R&D as a country…

Certainly IBM spends more on R&D than any one South Korean universities or all of the universities put together…..

I’ll wait fro M Bakri’s write up on the private sector involvement… yes Malaysia do have a private sector edu system… let me guess… the private sector is definetly a more efficient “teaching factory”……

Lack of R&D at public unis is a common problem for developing countries…

Malaysia is not alone in this regard…..

I read somewhere that IBM R&D spends more on R&D than South Korea spends as a country….. and that was during East Asian financial crisis…..