Hari Pendaftaran Pelajar SMP Ambilan Khas @ OUM Perak

Nov 29, 2008



Pengarah OUM Perak, Richard Ng, sedang memberikan taklimat kepada pelajar-pelajar yang hadir

Seramai 210 orang pelajar yang terdiri daripada guru-guru yang sedang berkhidamat dengan Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia telah hadir untuk mendaftarkan diri bagi mengikuti program Sarjana Muda Pengajaran (SMP) ambilan khas pada hari ini di Pusat Pembelajaran Perak.





Sebahagian pelajar program SMP sedang asyik mendengar taklimat yang diberikan

Pelajar-pelajar ini adalah sebahagian dari 5,000 orang guru yang ditawarkan di seluruh Malaysia bagi program SMP ini. Objektif program ini untuk menaiktaraf guru-guru yang sedang berkhidmat disamping menambha ilmu pengetahuan mereka supaya dapat melahirkan pelajar yang lebih berkualiti.

Pelajar-pelajar ambilan khas ini sebelum ini telah mengikuti satu program khas KDP 14 minggu yakni kursus intensif yang melibatkan 7 subjek di Institut Perguruan. Mereka yang telah mengikuti program ini dengan jayanya akan mengambil dua subjek secara intensif pada bulan Disember 2008 sebelum dimasukkan dalam semester biasa pada Januari 2009.

Sementera menantikan giliran untuk mendaftarkan diri, pelajar disediakan dengan sarapan pagi

Pelajar-pelajar program ini adalah ditaja oleh Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia melalui skim Pinjaman khas. Melalui skim ini, pelajar yang berjaya mendapat CGPA lebih dari 2.75 hanya perlu membayar balik pinjaman sebanyak 25% sahaja dari jumlah penuh pinjaman yang bernilai RM15,600. Syarat bergraduat ialah CGPA minimum 2.0 dan lulus MUET pada tahap 2. Program ini yang mengambil masa 4 tahun mempunyai jumlah jam kredit sebanyak 120.

Kelas tutorial pertama program ini akan dijalankan serentak diseluruh Malaysia pada 13 Disember 2008.

'My son paid friend to take his SPM' - NST

DON'T TRY TO DO THIS TRICK AT OUM

PUTRAJAYA: Nov 29, 2008 By Farrah Naz Karim

The article which appeared in the November issue of ‘The Women’s Weekly’. Education Ministry director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom says he will look into this confession.

Can the Examination Board be duped by students who pay others to take public examinations for them?
One student from a private school did just that, according to a confession to a local women's magazine, in which a mother related her son, John's (not his real name) experience at having someone else take his Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia examination.

He had paid his friend RM200 for each paper that he sat for, she said.

"All the guy had to do was to turn up at the examination centre with John's identity card and sit the paper he had registered for.

"I knew this friend and that he would be able to guarantee good enough results for my son to enrol into college.
"If anyone became suspicious, his friend would just insist that he was the boy in the picture and that he just looked different at 17."

In ensuring that the plan worked, she said her son's friend memorised all his details in case anyone asked.

The friend managed to avoid raising any suspicion as the invigilators failed to see the physical difference between the two boys.

"I reluctantly agreed to be at home to answer the phone in case the authorities called.

"The days of exams passed without trouble and we were glad when the last paper was over.

"Weeks later, my son received his results ... his grades were good enough for entry to a college and even qualified for one of the best courses," she said in the November issue of The Women's Weekly's monthly contributor's page "Share a Secret".

Education Ministry director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom, who expressed disbelief that there was such a case, said he would look into the claim.

He said yesterday there was a directive for the Examination Board to be more vigilant when it came to private schools and private candidates.

This is because unlike government schools where teachers and the principals know their students, private students sitting for a paper merely have examination slips.

"When it comes to private students, invigilators would be more watchful and would check their identification against the candidate sitting for the exam.

"Details of these students are checked each time they sit for a paper."

He said there had been no reports of cheating in the past years.

Towards a safer Ipoh City - Star

Nov 28, 2008

IPOH will have at least 64 CCTV cameras installed in crime-prone areas throughout the city, said Datuk Bandar Roshidi Hashim.

The mayor said the Housing and Local Government Ministry would install and bear the cost of the system, adding that the council and police had already identified strategic sites.

Among the areas are shopping complexes, pedestrian walkways vulnerable to snatch theft, and other spots where crime might happen, he told reporters after the full board meeting in Ipoh on Wednesday.

Roshidi said this after city councillor Radzi Zainon raised concerns about making Ipoh a safer city following cases such as the killing of a petrol kiosk cashier during a robbery.



The mayor also said the council would come down hard on residents who dumped their rubbish indiscriminately at illegal dumping areas.

Among the measures, he said, was to use spies in plainclothes and to set up committees to tackle the illegal dumping problem in a more organised manner for each zone within the city.

“Dumping is becoming a big problem and I’m serious about this. We will catch those responsible and bring them to court,”he warned.

On another matter, Roshidi said the council had approached budget airline Firefly about the possibility of having flights to and from the underused Sultan Azlan Shah airport here.

He pointed out that Penang alone had six flights to Medan via various airlines.

It would be good enough if Ipoh could get flights to southern China and Phuket, he added.

During his speech, Roshidi said the Tun Razak Library was planning a book sale festival from Dec 18 to Dec 20 from 10am to 6pm aimed at encouraging the reading habit.

Bookstores MPH, Popular, Happy Learning, Kam Benar, SS Mubarak and Prima are expected to participate in the festival which will feature drawing and storytelling contests.

He also announced that the council had as of October spent RM92.1mil for development and administrative expenses, out of an allocated RM122.7mil this year.

Selamat Datang Pelajar-Pelajar Program Sarjana Muda Pengajaran (SMP) ke OUM Perak

Pendaftaran untuk pelajar SMP di OUM Perak akan berlangsung pada hari Sabtu 29 November 2008 bermula pada jam 8.30pagi. Seramai 210 orang pelajar di kalangan guru-guru yang sedang berkhidmat dengan Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia akan berdaftar serentak beserta dengan sejumlah 5000 orang pelajar di seluruh Malaysia. Pelajar yang ditawarkan ini adalah dari kalangan dari mereka yang telah pun tamat pengajian KDP 14 minggu di Institut Perguruan di seluruh negara.

Para pelajar dalam program ambilan khas ini akan mengikuti satu program intensif yang akan bermula pada bulan Disember ini.

Pendaftaran akan dijalankan di dewan OUM Perak yang beralamat di No. 71, Jln Lim Bo Seng, 30300 Ipoh Perak. (tel: 05-2546006). Lokasi dewan ini adalah seperti tertera di bawah:

Klik pada gambar untuk membesarkannya

Peta Lokasi OUM Perak (Jln Lim Bo Seng ke MHS)

Sila lihat jadual waktu peperiksaan terkini bagi mengelakan sebarang kekecohan. Terdapat dua lokasi peperiksaan iaitu di OUM, Jlm Lim Bo Seng dan Methodist High School (MHS) (Persimpangan Jln Silibin/Jln Tun Abdul Razak).

Lokasi MHS ada lah seperti tertera di bawah: (Klik pada gambar untuk membesarkannya)
Location map of Open University Malaysia (OUM) Perak

Pandangan dari Satelit lokasi MHS:(Klik pada gambar untuk membesarkannya)

Pihak OUM Perak akan buat yang terbaik bagi memastikan keselesaan pelajar. Sebarang kekurangan yang tak dapat dielakkan amat dikesali dan diharap pelajar bersabar sementara OUM Perak berikhtiar untuk mencari lokasi peperiksaan baru.

Perlancaran Yayasan Canselor OUM

Tambah Nilai Diri

PUTRAJAYA 25 Nov 2008

Utusan Malaysia Oleh: Zulkifli Jalil dan Thomas Chong

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi menerima cek sumbangan RM3 juta dari Azman Hashim (dua dari kiri) sambil diperhatikan Jeanne Abdullah, Prof. Anuwar Ali (kanan) dan Mohamed Khaled Nordin (kiri) pada majlis pelancaran Yayasan Canselor Open University Malaysia di Hotel Marriot, Putrajaya, malam tadi.

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yakin negara akan mencapai lebih banyak kejayaan jika setiap rakyatnya mempunyai keazaman kuat untuk menambah nilai diri masing- masing.

Tegas Perdana Menteri, dengan menjadikan usaha menambah nilai sebagai budaya meneroka ilmu sedia ada dan baru, ia sekali gus bakal membuka peluang kepada rakyat untuk mengecapi kejayaan lebih gemilang.

''Kejayaan negara bergantung kepada mutu modal insan dan saya berpegang kuat bahawa manusia mempunyai kekuatan untuk menjadi kreatif.

''Ini penting untuk kita jika ingin mencapai lebih banyak kejayaan. Jika generasi akan datang lebih tinggi ilmu pengetahuannya, maka generasi selepas itu akan lebih berkemampuan lagi terutama dengan adanya alat-alat teknologi lebih canggih yang boleh tingkatkan mutu kerja kita," katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap melancarkan Yayasan Canselor Open University Malaysia (OUM) di Hotel Marriott di sini malam ini.

Hadir sama Canselor OUM, Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah; Menteri Pengajian Tinggi, Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin; Pro-Canselor OUM, Tan Sri Azman Hashim dan Naib Canselor OUM, Tan Sri Anuwar Ali.

Dalam hubungan ini, Abdullah berkata, beliau difahamkan Yayasan Canselor OUM ditubuhkan untuk menyalurkan bantuan kewangan dan biasiswa kepada pelajar yang memerlukan bantuan.

''Kita mesti menerima hakikat bahawa terdapat golongan yang dilahirkan dengan kekurangan fizikal tertentu dan mereka juga ingin memberikan sumbangan kepada negara.

''Saya amat bergembira apabila dimaklumkan Yayasan Canselor OUM akan memberikan bantuan kewangan kepada golongan ini bagi membolehkan mereka memperoleh kelayakan yang diperlukan untuk kejayaan masa depan," katanya.

Terdahulu, Jeanne dalam ucapannya berkata, Yayasan Canselor OUM sejak diwujudkan pada 2005 telah memberikan bantuan kewangan dan biasiswa berjumlah RM300,000 kepada 162 pelajar yang memerlukan.

''Yayasan ini turut memperuntukkan RM1.4 juta untuk memberi diskaun kepada orang kurang upaya (OKU) serta warga emas yang ingin melanjutkan pelajaran.

''Yayasan ini pada masa sama juga membelanjakan RM100,000 untuk menjalankan program-program perkhidmatan masyarakat," katanya.

Selari dengan pelancaran Yayasan Canselor OUM itu, sebuah lembaga pemegang amanah yang dipengerusikan oleh Azman ditubuhkan untuk menguruskan sumbangan-sumbangan yang diterima.

Setakat ini, sejumlah RM8 juta berjaya dikumpul melalui syarikat-syarikat korporat dan individu tertentu.

Nurul Ain layak ke Piala Monsun

Syabas pada Nurul Ain, pelajar PPT Greentown Perak.

Nurul Ain layak ke Piala Monsun
NURUL AIN (tengah) menjulang trofi kejuaraan bersama rakan sepasukan selepas muncul juara pada Kejohanan Kapal Layar Kelayakan Malaysia Piala Monsun di Pulau Duyong, Terengganu semalam. Gambar Ehsan Kosmo

YACHTING: Nurul wins wild card into Monsoon Cup - NST Nov 27, 2008

Perak Sailing Team’s Nurul Ain Md Isa (left) and crew won the Match Racing Championship at Pulau Duyong in Terengganu yesterday. — Pic: IMRAN MAKHZAN

STRONG shifting winds and a drizzle failed to stop Nurul Ain Md Isa from winning the Malaysian Match Racing Championship yesterday and securing a wild card into the Monsoon Cup on Dec 3-7 at Ri-Yaz Heritage Resort and Spa in Pulau Duyong.
The Perak Sailing Team captain, who was unbeaten in the round-robin series, continued her fine performance in the first semi-final with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Navy 2 captained by Mohd Masyuri Rahmat.

Nurul Ain, 23, was however, pushed to the limit in the final race by the Razman Mat Ali-captained Team KFC who earlier managed to hold off the challenge of Navy 1 with Mohamad Razali Mansor at the helm in the second semi-final.

Aided by crew members Hazwan Hazim Dermawan, Muhammad Shaifullah, Syed Ahmad Syahmi Syed Ahmad Hilmi and Muhammad Izzat Samdin, Nurul Ain, who lost the second race, did just enough to pip Razman to the finish line in the decider.

A very happy Nurul Ain said that the fact that she had made the cut for the Monsoon Cup had yet to fully sink in.
"Otherwise, I would be scared to death at the prospect of racing against defending World Match Racing Tour and Monsoon Cup champion Ian Williams or other contenders like Sebastian Col and Mathiew Richard," she said.

"It's a good thing that four-time world champion Datuk Peter Gilmour, who is the race adviser for the national qualifiers, has encouraged me to just do my best in the Monsoon Cup," Nurul Ain added.

Nurul Ain is aware that the difference between her and the rest of the Monsoon Cup competitors is huge but then again she said the worst she could do was to finish last and that would still mean walking away with RM28,000.

Meanwhile, all was not lost for Razman and Mohamad Razali as they were both picked to represent the country in the Asian Match Racing Championship beginning today at the same venue.

The winning team in the Asian qualifiers will also earn a wild card into the Monsoon Cup. -- ZAINUDDIN MUHAMMAD

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Nurul Ain Qualifies For Monsoon Cup

KUALA TERENGGANU, Nov 26 (Bernama) -- As expected, SEA Games yachting athlete, Nurul Ain Md Isa, emerged as champion at the Malaysian Monsoon Cup Qualifying round at Pulau Duyong, near here which ended Wednesday.

The victory enabled the sole female yachtsman at the three-day championship to compete in the Monsoon Cup Yachting Race from Dec 3 to 7.

Representing the Perak Yachting Team, the 23-year-old yachtsman, however, was given a tough fight by Razman Mat Ali, from the KFC-Malaysian Yachting Association, at the final stage before winning 2-1.

In third place was Mohamad Razali Mansor, from the Navy 1 team, who beat Mohd Masyuri Rahmat 2-1, from the Navy 2 team.

When met by reporters, Nurul Ain said she did not expect to win and qualify for the Monsoon Cup in her first appearance in the championship.

-- BERNAMA

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Nurul Ain hebat hari pertama, kumpul tiga mata - Utusan

KUALA TERENGGANU: Nov 25 2008

Pelayar Sukan SEA, Nurul Ain Md. Isa (gambar) dari Perak dan Mohd. Razali Mansor dari Navy 1 berkongsi kedudukan mendahului enam pencabar lain apabila mereka berjaya mengumpul tiga mata pada pusingan awal Kejohanan Kelayakan Malaysia Kapal Layar Piala Monsun yang diadakan di Pulau Duyong di sini, semalam, lapor IRMAN HASHIM.

Nurul Ain berjaya mengutip mata tersebut apabila memenangi kesemua tiga perlawanan satu lawan satu mengalahkan pasukan Johor diketuai Abd. Rahim Mohd. Zan, Mohd. Afendy Abdullah (Langkawi Geopark) dan M. Zaidi Md. Amin dari KFC (Persatuan Kapal Layar Malaysia).

Mohd. Razali pula menewaskan Megat Fairuz Khairuddin dari pasukan Putrajaya Sail, Mohd. Masyuri Rahmah (Navy 2) dan David Mills (Terengganu).

Mohd. Masyuri dan M. Zaidi masing-masing mengutip 2-1 manakala Megat Fairuz dan Mohd. Afendy pula mengutip 1-2.

Pasukan Terengganu dan Johor gagal mengumpul sebarang mata selepas tewas dalam tiga perlumbaan yang diadakan semalam.

Kesemua peserta perlu melalui tujuh perlawanan dalam pusingan awal ini sebelum layak ke pusingan separuh akhir dan akhir kejohanan tersebut yang berlangsung sehingga Rabu ini.

Nurul Ain ketika ditemui tidak menyangka akan mencapai kejayaan tersebut apabila buat pertama kali menyertai kejohanan berkenaan.

''Kejayaan yang dicapai hari ini adalah berdasarkan kerjasama yang diberikan oleh empat krew yang masing-masing mempunyai pengalaman dalam kejohanan seperti ini.

''Saya berharap nasib baik akan terus menyebelahi kami dalam perlumbaan seterusnya," katanya.

Pencabar terdekat satu-satu pelayar wanita dalam kejohanan itu, Mohd. Razali berkata, pasukannya menerima tentangan sengit daripada pencabar-pencabar mereka.

"Walaupun saya menyertai kejohanan kelayakan ini pada tahun lepas namun ia tidak memudahkan kami mencapai kejayaan," ujarnya.

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Bernama News: Nov 25 2008

Nur Ain Shows Off Her Skills



KUALA TERENGGANU, Nov 24 (Bernama)-- Nurul Ain Md Isa, the sole woman sailor participating in the Malaysian Match Racing Championship, which doubles up as the Malaysian Qualifier for the Monsoon Cup, proved her mettle when her team obtained three points after defeating three other teams on the first day of the qualifying rounds.

The SEA Games sailor, who is making her debut in the race, beat the Johor team led by Abd Rahim Mohd Zan, Langkawi Geopark team from the Kedah Yachting Association (helmed by Mohd Afendy Abdullah) and KFC of the Malaysian Yachting Association, led by M Zaidi Md Amin.

Having scored the three points, Nurul Ain's team, the Perak Sailing Team, came up in top position, sharing the place with Navy I, the Royal Malaysian Navy team led by Mohd Razali, which also collected three points in the preliminary rounds of the race today run in the robin round format.

The Navy I team beat Navy 2 led by Mohd Masyuri Rahmat, Putrajaya Sail (Megat Fairuz Khairuddin) and the Terengganu team (David Mills).

Meanwhile, at a press conference after the race, Nurul Ain said good team work from her crew was the main factor which led to their victory today.

"My four crew, who are experienced sailors, helped a lot in the decision making. Although, at the early stage of the race, it was rather havoc, we managed to control the situation," she added.

She said the win gave the team a good start and hoped it would continue to be so in another four rounds to enable the team to get a place in the Monsoon Cup competition.

The crew in Nurul Ain's team are Hazwan Hazim Dermawan, Muhammad Saifullah Ali, Syed Ahmad Ayahmi Syed Ahmad Hilmi and Muhamad Izzad Samdin.