The marauding wolf/wolves who had attacked this blog in the past few nights are now asleep
The marauding wolf/wolves who had attacked this blog in the past few nights are now asleep. When it is daylight in Malaysia, it is darkness in New Jersey, United States.
This is the third attack on the blog in a little more than two months since its launch. I did not get to sleep until 6 am this morning – all because of the marauding wolf/wolves who used the same IP in New Jersey to send fake, malicious and incendiary postings masquerading as bona fide commentators like Chong Zhemin, “UM200++”, devilmaster and others or under a multiplicity of false identities.
The object is clear, to cause havoc and distraction from a serious discussion of the crisis of higher education in Malaysia which had been brought to the forefront of national attention by the THES World University Ranking 2005. The intense discussion on this subject has clearly unsettled and upset influential personalities in the country.
Since Oct. 29, I had posted nine blogs (this will the tenth) on the THES World University Ranking 2005, UM, USM and higher education in Malaysia, with 741 comments (including the fake comments posted by the wolf/wolves from New Jersey), viz:
World rankings: UM plunges 80 and USM over 89 places - 87 comments
Any Aussie university better than the best Malaysian U? - 85
Hashim Yaacob – Resign or be sacked as UM VC - 92
Shafie response to UM/USM’s plunge in World Ranking - 65
UM may follow USM: out of Top 200 Universities Ranking - 72
Suspend Hashim as UM VC – totally unfit and unqualified - 43
UM – “A Picture is worth a Thousand Words” - 125
Will Najib/Shafie “sink or swim” with Hashim? - 125
Second RM10-cut censure motion for Shafie Salleh - 47
Total - 741
Thanks to fellow-bloggers Aizuddin Danian, Libra, Hang Tuah, johnleemk, Flowing Stream, DoingTheRightThing, Peter, saga, LongLiveBlog and others for your views and ideas on how to deal with this problem of the marauding wolf/wolves from New Jersey and elsewhere in the future.
I seek your forbearance, understanding and support while a regime is being worked out both to protect this blog and the bloggers from the ravages of the marauding wolves in the cyberspace although there can be no fool-proof protection.
What is most important is that we should not allow the dark forces whether terrestrial or cyber to distract us from our purpose – in this case to restore respect, dignity and pride in our universities, in particular Universiti Malaya, the nation’s premier university.
I am therefore calling on all Ministers to be mindful of the principle of collective responsibility and speak up in the Cabinet next Wednesday on Malaysia’s prolonged and worsening crisis of higher education highlighted by THES World University Ranking 2005 on the Top 200 Universities, which saw the nation’s premier university plunging 80 places from 89th to 169th position while Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) fell more than 89 places from 111th position and was knocked out of the Top 200 Universities bracket altogether.
I hope there will be more than a couple of Ministers who have sufficient love for the nation and conscious of the fundamental principle of collective ministerial responsibility to speak up at the Cabinet meeting to reflect the almost unanimous non-partisan views of academicians, students and the civil society that neither Universiti Malaya nor the country can afford to have a Vice Chancellor who had reacted with unabashed glee to the international “fall from grace” of UM.
The Cabinet next Wednesday should be the first official forum to censure the UM Vice Chancellor Professor Datuk Dr. Hashim Yaacob for his public pronouncement that he is not only “not worried” but feels “great happiness” at the THES World University Ranking 2005 for UM.
When the UM VC is “not worried” and even feels “great happiness” at the 80-place drop of the nation’s premier university in the Top 200 Universities ranking, then it is time for the Cabinet, Parliament and the country to be “very worried” and very unhappy at having a completely unfit, unsuitable and even unqualified person to lead UM.
The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had declared in the past two years that CEOs of GLCs (government-linked companies) and heads of government corporations and institutions are required to operate under a new performance-based culture and milieu and to be regularly benchmarked against key performance indicators (KPI).
The VCs of the public universities in the country should be no exception for being required to operate in a performance-based environment There is no doubt that under any performance-based test, however low the pass mark, Hashim would have failed miserably any PKI examination. In fact, if Hashim had been a CEO of a GLC in a truly performance-based culture, he would have been sacked long ago!
If Cabinet next Wednesday is not prepared to perform the national service to end the rot in excellence, quality and standards in the public unversities, then Parliament must address this issue as a matter of foremost priority when it reconvenes on November 14 as higher education excellence and quality hold the key to Malaysia’s propsperity and success to achieve Vision 2020 to become a fully-developed nation in the era of knowledge-economy, information society and globalisation.
This is the third attack on the blog in a little more than two months since its launch. I did not get to sleep until 6 am this morning – all because of the marauding wolf/wolves who used the same IP in New Jersey to send fake, malicious and incendiary postings masquerading as bona fide commentators like Chong Zhemin, “UM200++”, devilmaster and others or under a multiplicity of false identities.
The object is clear, to cause havoc and distraction from a serious discussion of the crisis of higher education in Malaysia which had been brought to the forefront of national attention by the THES World University Ranking 2005. The intense discussion on this subject has clearly unsettled and upset influential personalities in the country.
Since Oct. 29, I had posted nine blogs (this will the tenth) on the THES World University Ranking 2005, UM, USM and higher education in Malaysia, with 741 comments (including the fake comments posted by the wolf/wolves from New Jersey), viz:
World rankings: UM plunges 80 and USM over 89 places - 87 comments
Any Aussie university better than the best Malaysian U? - 85
Hashim Yaacob – Resign or be sacked as UM VC - 92
Shafie response to UM/USM’s plunge in World Ranking - 65
UM may follow USM: out of Top 200 Universities Ranking - 72
Suspend Hashim as UM VC – totally unfit and unqualified - 43
UM – “A Picture is worth a Thousand Words” - 125
Will Najib/Shafie “sink or swim” with Hashim? - 125
Second RM10-cut censure motion for Shafie Salleh - 47
Total - 741
Thanks to fellow-bloggers Aizuddin Danian, Libra, Hang Tuah, johnleemk, Flowing Stream, DoingTheRightThing, Peter, saga, LongLiveBlog and others for your views and ideas on how to deal with this problem of the marauding wolf/wolves from New Jersey and elsewhere in the future.
I seek your forbearance, understanding and support while a regime is being worked out both to protect this blog and the bloggers from the ravages of the marauding wolves in the cyberspace although there can be no fool-proof protection.
What is most important is that we should not allow the dark forces whether terrestrial or cyber to distract us from our purpose – in this case to restore respect, dignity and pride in our universities, in particular Universiti Malaya, the nation’s premier university.
I am therefore calling on all Ministers to be mindful of the principle of collective responsibility and speak up in the Cabinet next Wednesday on Malaysia’s prolonged and worsening crisis of higher education highlighted by THES World University Ranking 2005 on the Top 200 Universities, which saw the nation’s premier university plunging 80 places from 89th to 169th position while Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) fell more than 89 places from 111th position and was knocked out of the Top 200 Universities bracket altogether.
I hope there will be more than a couple of Ministers who have sufficient love for the nation and conscious of the fundamental principle of collective ministerial responsibility to speak up at the Cabinet meeting to reflect the almost unanimous non-partisan views of academicians, students and the civil society that neither Universiti Malaya nor the country can afford to have a Vice Chancellor who had reacted with unabashed glee to the international “fall from grace” of UM.
The Cabinet next Wednesday should be the first official forum to censure the UM Vice Chancellor Professor Datuk Dr. Hashim Yaacob for his public pronouncement that he is not only “not worried” but feels “great happiness” at the THES World University Ranking 2005 for UM.
When the UM VC is “not worried” and even feels “great happiness” at the 80-place drop of the nation’s premier university in the Top 200 Universities ranking, then it is time for the Cabinet, Parliament and the country to be “very worried” and very unhappy at having a completely unfit, unsuitable and even unqualified person to lead UM.
The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had declared in the past two years that CEOs of GLCs (government-linked companies) and heads of government corporations and institutions are required to operate under a new performance-based culture and milieu and to be regularly benchmarked against key performance indicators (KPI).
The VCs of the public universities in the country should be no exception for being required to operate in a performance-based environment There is no doubt that under any performance-based test, however low the pass mark, Hashim would have failed miserably any PKI examination. In fact, if Hashim had been a CEO of a GLC in a truly performance-based culture, he would have been sacked long ago!
If Cabinet next Wednesday is not prepared to perform the national service to end the rot in excellence, quality and standards in the public unversities, then Parliament must address this issue as a matter of foremost priority when it reconvenes on November 14 as higher education excellence and quality hold the key to Malaysia’s propsperity and success to achieve Vision 2020 to become a fully-developed nation in the era of knowledge-economy, information society and globalisation.
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