Start first by providing facilities to do research reviews
Government acts to nurture R&D culture
Reading press releases from Education Ministry is indeed surprising, most times.
Anyways, to enhance R&D further, government needs to provide facilities to conduct reviews or back-ground reading first. This is one area which is lacking. Online publications should be made available, at minimal cost, free preferably, so that many people can pursue reading and start researching on anything that they find interesting.
Follow-up to the reading might produce good research work in future!
The Malaysian Research Group’s website – http://mrg-online.org have loads of publications, but alas, it's not free to Malaysian, and registration is also limited to those who are in the UK!
The Star Online > Nation
Tuesday June 7, 2005
Government acts to nurture R&D culture
BY CHOI TUCK WO
MANCHESTER (England): Centres of excellence will be set up in universities across the country as part of the government drive to nurture a research culture among Malaysians.
For a start, nine such centres have been approved in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), with more to follow at Universiti Malaya (UM), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).
Higher Education Minister Datuk Dr Shafie Salleh said the centres would enable Master's and PhD degree holders to continue pursuing their research after completing their studies.
He said research often remained stagnant after scholars were promoted to become professors and took up teaching posts upon obtaining their degrees.
“We want them to plough back their research findings to society, and not let them collect dust,” he said after opening the Malaysian Research Group’s third annual conference here on Saturday.
Dr Shafie also launched the group’s website – http://mrg-online.org – at the conference, which was attended by more than 100 people, mostly post-graduate Malaysian students.
Dr Shafie said he had just approved the nine centres in UPM, which were geared towards agricultural research, including biotechnology.
He said discussions would be held with the Economic Planning Unit on the allocation for the centres under the Ninth Malaysia Plan.
“We hope to eventually set up such centres in various departments, faculties and institutions in UM, USM and UKM,” he added.
Dr Shafie said the centres would lead to the emergence of research universities, in line with the government aim to inculcate research culture among the people.
He said such universities might even stop issuing Bachelor’s degrees in future, as they gradually moved from teaching to becoming full-fledged research institutions.
Dr Shafie said his ministry planned to collect all the research findings for deliberation at a national conference of Malaysian researchers.
© 1995-2005 Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd (Co No 10894-D)
Reading press releases from Education Ministry is indeed surprising, most times.
Anyways, to enhance R&D further, government needs to provide facilities to conduct reviews or back-ground reading first. This is one area which is lacking. Online publications should be made available, at minimal cost, free preferably, so that many people can pursue reading and start researching on anything that they find interesting.
Follow-up to the reading might produce good research work in future!
The Malaysian Research Group’s website – http://mrg-online.org have loads of publications, but alas, it's not free to Malaysian, and registration is also limited to those who are in the UK!
The Star Online > Nation
Tuesday June 7, 2005
Government acts to nurture R&D culture
BY CHOI TUCK WO
MANCHESTER (England): Centres of excellence will be set up in universities across the country as part of the government drive to nurture a research culture among Malaysians.
For a start, nine such centres have been approved in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), with more to follow at Universiti Malaya (UM), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).
Higher Education Minister Datuk Dr Shafie Salleh said the centres would enable Master's and PhD degree holders to continue pursuing their research after completing their studies.
He said research often remained stagnant after scholars were promoted to become professors and took up teaching posts upon obtaining their degrees.
“We want them to plough back their research findings to society, and not let them collect dust,” he said after opening the Malaysian Research Group’s third annual conference here on Saturday.
Dr Shafie also launched the group’s website – http://mrg-online.org – at the conference, which was attended by more than 100 people, mostly post-graduate Malaysian students.
Dr Shafie said he had just approved the nine centres in UPM, which were geared towards agricultural research, including biotechnology.
He said discussions would be held with the Economic Planning Unit on the allocation for the centres under the Ninth Malaysia Plan.
“We hope to eventually set up such centres in various departments, faculties and institutions in UM, USM and UKM,” he added.
Dr Shafie said the centres would lead to the emergence of research universities, in line with the government aim to inculcate research culture among the people.
He said such universities might even stop issuing Bachelor’s degrees in future, as they gradually moved from teaching to becoming full-fledged research institutions.
Dr Shafie said his ministry planned to collect all the research findings for deliberation at a national conference of Malaysian researchers.
© 1995-2005 Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd (Co No 10894-D)
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