Showing posts with label issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label issues. Show all posts
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
'Keunikan' tugas hakiki diambil kira ganti PTK
JPA akan beri penekanan pencapaian tugas individu
PUTRAJAYA: Satu sistem penilaian yang mengambil kira 'keunikan' setiap jabatan kerajaan akan diguna pakai bagi menggantikan peperiksaan Penilaian Tahap Kecekapan (PTK) yang ditamatkan mulai 1 Januari ini.Ketika PTK ditolak sesetengah kakitangan awam, sistem penilaian baru itu yang sedang dirangka oleh Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) akan turut memberi penekanan kepada pencapaian individu dalam tugas hakikinya.Ketua Pengarah Perkhidmatan Awam, Datuk Seri Abu Bakar Abdullah, berkata pada ketika ini, PTK ‘mengukur’ kecekapan pegawai secara sama rata tanpa banyak mengambil kira jurusan hakiki masing-masing.
“Tiap-tiap jabatan ada keunikan masing-masing jadi ia tidak boleh dinilai secara sama rata, misalnya jika kakitangan berada dalam bahagian pentadbiran tidak boleh sama dengan bahagian teknikal," katanya ketika dihubungi Berita Harian.
Beliau berkata, sepatutnya PTK juga menekankan keunikan setiap jabatan itu
tetapi oleh kerana ia sudah menjadi budaya dalam perkhidmatan awam ia nampak seolah-olah diseragamkan.
Katanya, JPA diberi masa sehingga Jun depan untuk mengemukakan sistem penilaian baru itu seperti yang diumumkan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, pada pembentangan Bajet 2011 lalu.
Beliau berkata, nama kepada sistem penilaian baru itu juga belum ditentukan.
Bagaimanapun, katanya, proses kenaikan pangkat kakitangan awam antara Januari hingga Jun depan akan diteruskan dengan keutamaan masih diberikan kepada mereka yang lulus PTK yang diduduki sebelum ini.
Menjawab soalan, katanya, sistem penilaian baru itu kelak juga akan mirip kepada kriteria Petunjuk Prestasi Utama (KPI) individu tetapi enggan menjelaskan terperinci.
Walaupun sesetengah kriteria akan berfokus kepada bidang hakiki kakitangan berkaitan, beberapa subjek seperti kenegaraan akan diteruskan dalam penilaian baru itu kelak kerana ia penting untuk seseorang kakitangan kerajaan.
Pekeliling Perkhidmatan Bilangan 13/2010 yang disiarkan di laman web JPA sebelum ini menyatakan pelaksanaan PTK akan dihentikan berkuat kuasa 1 Januari ini selaras dengan pengumuman kerajaan dalam pembentangan Bajet 2011 pada Oktober lalu.
Justeru, lulus PTK bukan lagi syarat untuk kenaikan pangkat mulai 1 Januari ini.
PTK diperkenalkan dalam Sistem Saraan Malaysia (SSM) bermula 1 November 2002 bertujuan menggalakkan pembangunan diri pegawai perkhidmatan awam melalui pembelajaran berterusan, meningkatkan budaya organisasi pembelajaran dan melaksanakan pengurusan sumber manusia berasaskan kompetensi.
PTK dimantapkan pada 2005 dan dibuat pengubahsuaian pada 2008.
Bagaimanapun, peperiksaan itu menimbulkan pelbagai kontroversi kerana dikatakan ramai kakitangan terutama yang berpengalaman sukar menikmati kenaikan pangkat
Oleh Johari Ibrahim
joib@bharian.com.my
2010/12/08
Saturday, October 23, 2010
History a must-pass subject for SPM from 2013
KUALA LUMPUR: History will be a must-pass subject in Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination from 2013 along with the Bahasa Malaysia subject, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.
With the move, students must pass the subject to be able to obtain the SPM certificate, said Muhyiddin, who is the Education Minister.
“We need to give them (students) some time to adjust. We also need time to train teachers and to prepare our students to face the new system," he said in his winding-up speech at the 2010 Umno General Assembly, here Saturday.
He also said that from 2014, history would be made a core subject in primary school under the Primary School Standard Curriculum.
He said the ministry would also make improvement to the subject, with emphasis on enhancing the understanding of the constitution so as to enlighten students about the country's nation-building process.
He also said that the implementation of the school-based assessment system, which would replace the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR), would be brought forward from 2016 to 2014 following calls for the assessment system to be expedited.
"The UPSR (Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah) examination will be retained but will undergo improvement based on current development. But we still need some time to retrain the teachers and so on," he said.
Muhyiddin said the ministry would also channel RM10mil to fund activities of Yayasan Guru Malaysia Berhad, a foundation set up to take care of the welfare of teachers.
"I've brought up this matter with the prime minister and he agrees that RM10mil be channelled to foundation," he said, adding that another foundation, Yayasan Guru Tun Hussein Onn, would be set up, also to care for the welfare of teachers.
"A total of RM200mil of fund will be channelled to the foundation," he added.
He also said that the ministry would implement the Primary School Standard Curriculum with emphasis on hands-on learning, language ability and fun learning, from next year.
The ministry also planned to increase the intake of vocational students to 81,000 students or 20% by 2015 compared to 40,706 students or 10% at the moment, he said.
"A total of RM340mil will be allocated for this purpose under the 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP)," he said, adding that four vocational schools would be built during the 10MP (2011-2015).
To enhance competency among vocational teachers, the ministry would train 4,764 teachers to achieve at least Level 3 in the Malaysian Skills Certificate from next year, he added. - Bernama
With the move, students must pass the subject to be able to obtain the SPM certificate, said Muhyiddin, who is the Education Minister.
“We need to give them (students) some time to adjust. We also need time to train teachers and to prepare our students to face the new system," he said in his winding-up speech at the 2010 Umno General Assembly, here Saturday.
He also said that from 2014, history would be made a core subject in primary school under the Primary School Standard Curriculum.
He said the ministry would also make improvement to the subject, with emphasis on enhancing the understanding of the constitution so as to enlighten students about the country's nation-building process.
He also said that the implementation of the school-based assessment system, which would replace the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR), would be brought forward from 2016 to 2014 following calls for the assessment system to be expedited.
"The UPSR (Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah) examination will be retained but will undergo improvement based on current development. But we still need some time to retrain the teachers and so on," he said.
Muhyiddin said the ministry would also channel RM10mil to fund activities of Yayasan Guru Malaysia Berhad, a foundation set up to take care of the welfare of teachers.
"I've brought up this matter with the prime minister and he agrees that RM10mil be channelled to foundation," he said, adding that another foundation, Yayasan Guru Tun Hussein Onn, would be set up, also to care for the welfare of teachers.
"A total of RM200mil of fund will be channelled to the foundation," he added.
He also said that the ministry would implement the Primary School Standard Curriculum with emphasis on hands-on learning, language ability and fun learning, from next year.
The ministry also planned to increase the intake of vocational students to 81,000 students or 20% by 2015 compared to 40,706 students or 10% at the moment, he said.
"A total of RM340mil will be allocated for this purpose under the 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP)," he said, adding that four vocational schools would be built during the 10MP (2011-2015).
To enhance competency among vocational teachers, the ministry would train 4,764 teachers to achieve at least Level 3 in the Malaysian Skills Certificate from next year, he added. - Bernama
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Confessions of a Cikgu
Teacher Talk by NITHYA SIDHHU
A senior teacher talks about how she is fast losing her enthusiasm for the job because of the ever-increasing non-teaching chores she has to take on.
IT was recently announced that a committee, headed by Education Director-General Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom, and comprising representatives from various teachers’ unions, has been directed to look into complaints by teachers on how they have been burdened with other chores instead of focusing on their primary duty — teaching.
However, it is comforting to know that the Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, has himself said that he feels that there is a basis to teachers’ concerns. He wants the committee to thrash out problems and get back to him with sound recommendations to improve the lot of teachers in the country. The deadline? Two months.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Teachers are looking forward to some positive and workable recommendations from the committee.
The story below is of a teacher with 27 years of experience whom I shall refer to as Tee. Tee loves sharing her knowledge with students. She even takes pride in class projects and thoroughly enjoys the interaction with her charges.
However, over the years, she has been burdened with paper work and has been constantly called to work on Saturday and dumped with more responsibilities.
Teachers are bogged down by unnecessary paper work which leaves them with little time to focus on teaching. — File photo
Such duties which can easily be carried out by a clerk, is taking a toll on Tee, 52, who is losing her enthusiasm for teaching. It will be a shame if the country has to lose dedicated teachers like her.
A steady job
Tee was born in a small town in Selangor, and is the eldest of 10 children. Tee’s father was a lorry driver and her mother, a rubber tapper. After completing her secondary school education, she decided to teach and had applied for a place in the then teacher training college (it is now known as teacher training institute).
“It had always been my ambition to be a teacher and my parents had no objections, so long as their eldest daughter had a steady job, or as they would refer to it, an ‘iron rice bowl’ job.”
However, before that materialised, she accepted a JPA (Public Services Commission) teaching scholarship at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Science and graduated with honours in 1983. She obtained a Diploma in Education from UKM the following year.
Tee started teaching in a secondary school in Karak, Pahang and had stints in Sekinchan, Sg. Pelek and Selayang all in Selangor, before she was posted to her present school in Petaling Jaya in 2004.
“When I began to teach in the eighties in small towns, students then were very simple and they respected their teachers.
They did not seek much outside help or tuition for the subjects they were weak in, as they do today.
“At that time, their only source of knowledge and solution to their problems lay in doing the homework we gave them in school.
“As such, the the teacher-student relationhip was good. I could actually chart the personal development my students made under my tutelage. We teachers were instrumental in shaping their personality and character,” she says proudly.
Tee does not mince her words when she is asked to comment on how teaching was like, more than two decades ago.
“Those days, all I had to do was to teach, guide and to get to know my students as well as I could. If there was paperwork, it was minimal.
“If you look at students today, you can see that, because of their exposure, they are more knowledgeable. They have higher expectations and demand more from their teachers. I even feel that some of them are very egotistical.”
There’s one aspect of her job that Tee feels has changed for the better — preparing and setting examination questions.
“It was a more difficult task back then, but now, with the advent of numerous workbooks, the computer and educational DVDs, the job has become so much easier.”
I ask her if she is satisfied being a teacher.Tee thinks hard before responding.
“When I first began teaching, my salary was very low but I was a happy teacher. Today, my salary is much higher, and rightfully I should be happy, but I am not.”
“The clerical work I have to do, is becoming unbearable. You see, as a Mathematics teacher, I already have a lot of preparation, planning and marking to do.
“Now, on top of that, there are many other deadlines to be met. All parties, including parents, the principal, colleagues and students have high expectations.”
As a ketua bidang (head of department), life at school is even more stressful for Tee.
She is in charge of several academic programmes and for her, the documentation and filing she has to oversee, is literally back-breaking.
At 52, and with menopausal symptoms, particularly hot flushes, plaguing her, Tee’s sentiments about school have not changed.
In fact, for the first time in her teaching career, she was stressed and worried when the new school year began in January.
“I was anxious about my work and the ever-increasing responsibilities for the entire year. Could I take all this and more for another year?” she asks with a frown.
Tee tells me of an ex-colleague who had just passed away due to breast cancer, and of another one, who was currently undergoing treatment for uterine cancer.
When Tee herself went for a mammogram recently at the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), she was startled to hear from a nurse at the Radiotherapy Department that nine out of 10 patients undergoing chemotherapy at the hospital were teachers.
“Do you think it’s caused by stress?” she asks.
I found her question disturbing to say the least. Can it be?
Blank expressions
“You know,” she tells me, “I also find myself thinking a lot about my students these days. Sometimes, when I see ‘blank expressions’ on their faces, especially from those who are academically weaker, I wonder to myself ‘Why are they here? What do they feel about having to learn something that is not relevant to their daily life?
“For some of them, Mathematics is such an alien subject that even I begin to wonder what I am doing with them. On top of that, I feel that students today have to learn too many subjects and this makes life very challenging for the weaker students.”
Tee is of the opinion that the Government should set up more vocational schools to provide living skills training to this group of students.
“At least then we can help produce our own skilled workers, rather than having to import them.”
Tee feels that these days, she is more like a clerk doing paperwork instead of spending time giving personal attention to her academically-challenged students.
“Just think. Each class has about 30 to 40 students, so to be efficient, one has to have classroom management skills too. With the type of students we have, it is no easy task managing them. Many young teachers are afraid when they have to enter a classroom.”
Tee also regrets that with her increasing workload, she has little time to mentor and guide young teachers at her school.
“These teachers lack experience badly, and I feel they need to be guided for at least a year.
“With senior teachers being bogged down with non-teaching duties, there is hardly any time to develop a young teacher’s potential, or help boost their self-confidence.
“Often, they just get thrown into the deep end of the pool and unlike us — the teachers of the older generation, who had so much more grit and resilience — this group of young teachers take a longer time to adjust and cope.”
Tee tells me that despite being graduates, many of them lack communicational skills.
“For the teaching of Science and Maths in the higher forms, young teachers simply aren’t competent in the language of instruction.
“Students then start complaining and parents start calling up the school demanding an explanation.”
Tee shakes her head. “If I’m given the choice today, I don’t think I’ll choose to be a teacher anymore. I’m not against teaching; I enjoy being with my students. In fact, I’m at my happiest when I’m in the classroom. But our job today isn’t just to teach and deal with students, is it?”
“Don’t get me wrong. In class, I still do all I can for my students. I know they view me as a stern person because I follow the rules and I mean business when I am teaching them. I’m a hardworking and responsible teacher.
“I do sometimes crack a joke or two, and we all laugh together. Sometimes I tell them stories about my difficult childhood and how I had to be like a mother to all my younger siblings — how I had to act responsibly even when I was just a teen and the amount of housework I had to do and how difficult life was for me.
“I know my students admire me for the determination I have shown through the years to make something of myself. We have a good relationship – my students and I. I am firm but kind. I even treat them with sweets and chocolates.”
Tee also shares with me what she thinks about her relationship with her students.
“Oh, without question - they are very bold, talkative and not as disciplined. They want to be treated as friends rather than as students. In class, they are quick with their comments and remarks.
“In fact, I get aggravated when my students are rude or indifferent.
“But, personally, I’m a cheerful person so I do let down my guard once in a while and have some fun with them. As a teacher, I realise that they have needs that I must meet.
“For their sake therefore, I have to be prepared mentally and emotionally, as well as be sound in my own knowledge, especially in the subject that I teach. So far, that has not been a problem with me.
“When they tell me that I’m the best Additional Mathematics teacher they’ve had, I feel truly rewarded.
“When they get good results in Maths, some of them have even hugged and thanked me for being their teacher.
“I like getting positive feedback from my students, and I must admit that I feel young because I’m always surrounded by them.
“So, you see, it’s not the teaching part I don’t like. It’s the other chores that get me down.”
I ask Tee what is the best compliment she has received as a teacher. She is wistful, but her answer moves me as it still does her.
“One of the happiest moments in my life was when a mother thanked me for helping her son to be a cheerful, confident young man.
“The mother told me that her relationship with her son had improved tremendously because of me. It felt very good that I had such an effect on someone’s life.”
Does Tee have any advice for young teachers?
“Be committed, be knowledgeable and be prepared for what you are supposed to do. Always remember that if you want your own children to be taught by good teachers, then be a good teacher to the children of others. What goes around comes around.”
On a serious note, Tee is already thinking of applying for optional retirement next year simply because of the ever-increasing non-teaching chores.
THE STAR
A senior teacher talks about how she is fast losing her enthusiasm for the job because of the ever-increasing non-teaching chores she has to take on.
IT was recently announced that a committee, headed by Education Director-General Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom, and comprising representatives from various teachers’ unions, has been directed to look into complaints by teachers on how they have been burdened with other chores instead of focusing on their primary duty — teaching.
However, it is comforting to know that the Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, has himself said that he feels that there is a basis to teachers’ concerns. He wants the committee to thrash out problems and get back to him with sound recommendations to improve the lot of teachers in the country. The deadline? Two months.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Teachers are looking forward to some positive and workable recommendations from the committee.
The story below is of a teacher with 27 years of experience whom I shall refer to as Tee. Tee loves sharing her knowledge with students. She even takes pride in class projects and thoroughly enjoys the interaction with her charges.
However, over the years, she has been burdened with paper work and has been constantly called to work on Saturday and dumped with more responsibilities.
Teachers are bogged down by unnecessary paper work which leaves them with little time to focus on teaching. — File photo
Such duties which can easily be carried out by a clerk, is taking a toll on Tee, 52, who is losing her enthusiasm for teaching. It will be a shame if the country has to lose dedicated teachers like her.
A steady job
Tee was born in a small town in Selangor, and is the eldest of 10 children. Tee’s father was a lorry driver and her mother, a rubber tapper. After completing her secondary school education, she decided to teach and had applied for a place in the then teacher training college (it is now known as teacher training institute).
“It had always been my ambition to be a teacher and my parents had no objections, so long as their eldest daughter had a steady job, or as they would refer to it, an ‘iron rice bowl’ job.”
However, before that materialised, she accepted a JPA (Public Services Commission) teaching scholarship at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Science and graduated with honours in 1983. She obtained a Diploma in Education from UKM the following year.
Tee started teaching in a secondary school in Karak, Pahang and had stints in Sekinchan, Sg. Pelek and Selayang all in Selangor, before she was posted to her present school in Petaling Jaya in 2004.
“When I began to teach in the eighties in small towns, students then were very simple and they respected their teachers.
They did not seek much outside help or tuition for the subjects they were weak in, as they do today.
“At that time, their only source of knowledge and solution to their problems lay in doing the homework we gave them in school.
“As such, the the teacher-student relationhip was good. I could actually chart the personal development my students made under my tutelage. We teachers were instrumental in shaping their personality and character,” she says proudly.
Tee does not mince her words when she is asked to comment on how teaching was like, more than two decades ago.
“Those days, all I had to do was to teach, guide and to get to know my students as well as I could. If there was paperwork, it was minimal.
“If you look at students today, you can see that, because of their exposure, they are more knowledgeable. They have higher expectations and demand more from their teachers. I even feel that some of them are very egotistical.”
There’s one aspect of her job that Tee feels has changed for the better — preparing and setting examination questions.
“It was a more difficult task back then, but now, with the advent of numerous workbooks, the computer and educational DVDs, the job has become so much easier.”
I ask her if she is satisfied being a teacher.Tee thinks hard before responding.
“When I first began teaching, my salary was very low but I was a happy teacher. Today, my salary is much higher, and rightfully I should be happy, but I am not.”
“The clerical work I have to do, is becoming unbearable. You see, as a Mathematics teacher, I already have a lot of preparation, planning and marking to do.
“Now, on top of that, there are many other deadlines to be met. All parties, including parents, the principal, colleagues and students have high expectations.”
As a ketua bidang (head of department), life at school is even more stressful for Tee.
She is in charge of several academic programmes and for her, the documentation and filing she has to oversee, is literally back-breaking.
At 52, and with menopausal symptoms, particularly hot flushes, plaguing her, Tee’s sentiments about school have not changed.
In fact, for the first time in her teaching career, she was stressed and worried when the new school year began in January.
“I was anxious about my work and the ever-increasing responsibilities for the entire year. Could I take all this and more for another year?” she asks with a frown.
Tee tells me of an ex-colleague who had just passed away due to breast cancer, and of another one, who was currently undergoing treatment for uterine cancer.
When Tee herself went for a mammogram recently at the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), she was startled to hear from a nurse at the Radiotherapy Department that nine out of 10 patients undergoing chemotherapy at the hospital were teachers.
“Do you think it’s caused by stress?” she asks.
I found her question disturbing to say the least. Can it be?
Blank expressions
“You know,” she tells me, “I also find myself thinking a lot about my students these days. Sometimes, when I see ‘blank expressions’ on their faces, especially from those who are academically weaker, I wonder to myself ‘Why are they here? What do they feel about having to learn something that is not relevant to their daily life?
“For some of them, Mathematics is such an alien subject that even I begin to wonder what I am doing with them. On top of that, I feel that students today have to learn too many subjects and this makes life very challenging for the weaker students.”
Tee is of the opinion that the Government should set up more vocational schools to provide living skills training to this group of students.
“At least then we can help produce our own skilled workers, rather than having to import them.”
Tee feels that these days, she is more like a clerk doing paperwork instead of spending time giving personal attention to her academically-challenged students.
“Just think. Each class has about 30 to 40 students, so to be efficient, one has to have classroom management skills too. With the type of students we have, it is no easy task managing them. Many young teachers are afraid when they have to enter a classroom.”
Tee also regrets that with her increasing workload, she has little time to mentor and guide young teachers at her school.
“These teachers lack experience badly, and I feel they need to be guided for at least a year.
“With senior teachers being bogged down with non-teaching duties, there is hardly any time to develop a young teacher’s potential, or help boost their self-confidence.
“Often, they just get thrown into the deep end of the pool and unlike us — the teachers of the older generation, who had so much more grit and resilience — this group of young teachers take a longer time to adjust and cope.”
Tee tells me that despite being graduates, many of them lack communicational skills.
“For the teaching of Science and Maths in the higher forms, young teachers simply aren’t competent in the language of instruction.
“Students then start complaining and parents start calling up the school demanding an explanation.”
Tee shakes her head. “If I’m given the choice today, I don’t think I’ll choose to be a teacher anymore. I’m not against teaching; I enjoy being with my students. In fact, I’m at my happiest when I’m in the classroom. But our job today isn’t just to teach and deal with students, is it?”
“Don’t get me wrong. In class, I still do all I can for my students. I know they view me as a stern person because I follow the rules and I mean business when I am teaching them. I’m a hardworking and responsible teacher.
“I do sometimes crack a joke or two, and we all laugh together. Sometimes I tell them stories about my difficult childhood and how I had to be like a mother to all my younger siblings — how I had to act responsibly even when I was just a teen and the amount of housework I had to do and how difficult life was for me.
“I know my students admire me for the determination I have shown through the years to make something of myself. We have a good relationship – my students and I. I am firm but kind. I even treat them with sweets and chocolates.”
Tee also shares with me what she thinks about her relationship with her students.
“Oh, without question - they are very bold, talkative and not as disciplined. They want to be treated as friends rather than as students. In class, they are quick with their comments and remarks.
“In fact, I get aggravated when my students are rude or indifferent.
“But, personally, I’m a cheerful person so I do let down my guard once in a while and have some fun with them. As a teacher, I realise that they have needs that I must meet.
“For their sake therefore, I have to be prepared mentally and emotionally, as well as be sound in my own knowledge, especially in the subject that I teach. So far, that has not been a problem with me.
“When they tell me that I’m the best Additional Mathematics teacher they’ve had, I feel truly rewarded.
“When they get good results in Maths, some of them have even hugged and thanked me for being their teacher.
“I like getting positive feedback from my students, and I must admit that I feel young because I’m always surrounded by them.
“So, you see, it’s not the teaching part I don’t like. It’s the other chores that get me down.”
I ask Tee what is the best compliment she has received as a teacher. She is wistful, but her answer moves me as it still does her.
“One of the happiest moments in my life was when a mother thanked me for helping her son to be a cheerful, confident young man.
“The mother told me that her relationship with her son had improved tremendously because of me. It felt very good that I had such an effect on someone’s life.”
Does Tee have any advice for young teachers?
“Be committed, be knowledgeable and be prepared for what you are supposed to do. Always remember that if you want your own children to be taught by good teachers, then be a good teacher to the children of others. What goes around comes around.”
On a serious note, Tee is already thinking of applying for optional retirement next year simply because of the ever-increasing non-teaching chores.
THE STAR
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
RM2.55 a litre
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 22 (Bernama) -- The petrol and diesel price will drop by between eight sen and 22 sen respectively Saturday.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced Friday that the Cabinet had decided that the price of RON97 petrol be reduced by 15 sen to RM2.55 a litre from RM2.70, while RON92 would cost 22 sen less at RM2.40 a litre from RM2.62 a litre.
The retail price of diesel would drop by eight sen to RM2.50 a litre, he said in a statement.
The petrol price was determined by taking into account the actual price from Aug 1 to 21 and the 30 sen per litre subsidy borne by the government while the subsidy for diesel, based on the new price, was 50 sen a litre.
"The cabinet today decided to bring forward the enforcement date for adjustment of the new petrol price," he said.
Abdullah said the decision was made after taking into account the fall in the world fuel price in recent weeks and the steep rise in the inflation rate last month.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for last month, as announced today, rose by 8.5 per cent compared with July last year.
"It is the government's hope that the reduction in the petrol and diesel price will help ease the burden of consumers and reduce the inflationary pressure, especially on the low- and middle-income earners. The decision is also based on the current economic development," the prime minister said.
On Aug 1, the government announced that the petrol retail price till the end of the year would be adjusted on the first of every month, with the subsidy maintained at 30 sent per litre.
However, the prime minister said the adjustment formula would only be implemented if the retail price of petrol was less than RM2.70 per litre. Otherwise the price would be capped at that.
On June 5, the government raised the petrol price by 78 sen or 41 per cent from RM1.92 to RM2.70 a litre and diesel by RM1 or 63 per cent from RM1.58 to RM2.58 a litre.
At that time the world oil price was US$125 a barrel and it continued to rise to hover at US$140 a barrel at one time but has been on a downward trend since early this month.
The price was around US$115 a barrel last week and US$121 a barrel yesterday.
With today's announcement, the drop in price of RON97 petrol was 5.5 per cent, RON92 (8.4 per cent) and diesel (3.1 per cent).
-- BERNAMA
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced Friday that the Cabinet had decided that the price of RON97 petrol be reduced by 15 sen to RM2.55 a litre from RM2.70, while RON92 would cost 22 sen less at RM2.40 a litre from RM2.62 a litre.
The retail price of diesel would drop by eight sen to RM2.50 a litre, he said in a statement.
The petrol price was determined by taking into account the actual price from Aug 1 to 21 and the 30 sen per litre subsidy borne by the government while the subsidy for diesel, based on the new price, was 50 sen a litre.
"The cabinet today decided to bring forward the enforcement date for adjustment of the new petrol price," he said.
Abdullah said the decision was made after taking into account the fall in the world fuel price in recent weeks and the steep rise in the inflation rate last month.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for last month, as announced today, rose by 8.5 per cent compared with July last year.
"It is the government's hope that the reduction in the petrol and diesel price will help ease the burden of consumers and reduce the inflationary pressure, especially on the low- and middle-income earners. The decision is also based on the current economic development," the prime minister said.
On Aug 1, the government announced that the petrol retail price till the end of the year would be adjusted on the first of every month, with the subsidy maintained at 30 sent per litre.
However, the prime minister said the adjustment formula would only be implemented if the retail price of petrol was less than RM2.70 per litre. Otherwise the price would be capped at that.
On June 5, the government raised the petrol price by 78 sen or 41 per cent from RM1.92 to RM2.70 a litre and diesel by RM1 or 63 per cent from RM1.58 to RM2.58 a litre.
At that time the world oil price was US$125 a barrel and it continued to rise to hover at US$140 a barrel at one time but has been on a downward trend since early this month.
The price was around US$115 a barrel last week and US$121 a barrel yesterday.
With today's announcement, the drop in price of RON97 petrol was 5.5 per cent, RON92 (8.4 per cent) and diesel (3.1 per cent).
-- BERNAMA
Friday, August 15, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
19 KEISTIMEWAAN WANITA
1. Doa wanita itu lebih makbul daripada lelaki kerana sifat penyayang yang lebih kuat daripada lelaki.Ketika ditanya kepada Rasulullah SAW akan hal tersebut, jawab baginda , 'Ibu lebih penyayang daripada bapa dan doa orang yang penyayang tidak akan sia-sia.'
2. Wanita yang solehah (baik) itu lebih baik daripada 1000 lelaki yang soleh.
3. Barangsiapa yang menggembirakan anak perempuannya, darjatnya seumpama orang yang sentiasa menangis kerana takutkan Allah .Dan orang yang takutkan Allah SWT akan diharamkan api neraka ke atas tubuhnya.
4. Wanita yang tinggal bersama anak-anaknya akan tinggal bersama aku (Rasulullah SAW) di dalam syurga.
5. Barangsiapa membawa hadiah (barang makanan dari pasar ke rumah lalu diberikan kepada keluarganya) maka pahalanya seperti melakukan amalan bersedekah.Hendakla h mendahulukan anak perempuan daripada anak lelaki. Maka barangsiapa yang menyukakan anak perempuan seolah-olah dia memerdekakan anak Nabi Ismail.
6. Syurga itu di bawah telapak kaki ibu.
7. Barangsiapa mempunyai tiga anak perempuan atau tiga saudara perempuan atau dua anak perempuan atau dua saudara perempuan lalu dia bersikap ihsan dalam pergaulan dengan mereka dan mendidik mereka dengan penuh rasa takwa serta sikap bertanggungjawab, maka baginya adalah syurga.
8. Apabila memanggil akan dirimu dua orang ibu bapamu, maka jawablah panggilan ibumu terlebih dahulu.
9. Daripada Aisyah r.a.'Barangsiapa yang diuji dengan sesuatu daripada anak-anak perempuannya lalu dia berbuat baik kepada mereka, maka mereka akan menjadi penghalang baginya daripada api neraka.
10. Wanita yang taat berkhidmat kepada suaminya akan tertutuplah pintu-pintu neraka dan terbuka pintu-pintu syurga. Masuklah dari mana-mana pun pintu yang dia kehendaki dengan tidak dihisab.
11. Wanita yang taat pada suaminya, maka semua ikan-ikan di laut, burung di udara, malaikat di langit, matahari dan bulan semua beristighfar baginya selama mana dia taat kepada suaminya serta menjaga solat dan puasanya.
12. Aisyah r.a berkata, 'Aku bertanya kepada Rasulullah, siapakah yang lebih besar haknya terhadap wanita?' Jawab Rasulullah SAW 'Suaminya.' ' Siapa pula berhak terhadap lelaki?' Jawab Rasulullah SAW, 'Ibunya.'
13. Perempuan apabila sembahyang lima waktu, puasa di bulan Ramadhan, memelihara kehormatannya serta kepada suaminya, masuklah dia dari pintu syurga mana sahaja yang dikehendaki.
14. Tiap perempuan yang menolong suaminya dalam urusan agama, maka Allah SWT memasukkan dia ke dalam syurga terlebih dahulu daripada suaminya (10,000 tahun).
15. Apabila seseorang perempuan mengandung janin dalam rahimnya, maka beristighfarlah para malaikat untuknya Allah SWT mencatatkan baginya setiap hari dengan 1,000 kebajikan dan menghapuskan darinya 1,000 kejahatan.
16. Apabila seseorang perempuan mulai sakit hendak bersalin, maka Allah SWT mencatatkan baginya pahala orang yang berjihad pada jalan Allah.
17. Apabila seseorang perempuan melahirkan anak, keluarlah dia dari dosa-dosa seperti keadaan ibunya melahirkannya.
18. Apabila telah lahir anak lalu disusui, maka bagi ibu itu setiap satu tegukan daripada susunya diberi satu kebajikan.
19. Apabila semalaman seorang ibu tidak tidur dan memelihara anaknya yang sakit, maka Allah SWT memberinya pahala seperti memerdekakan 70 orang hamba dengan ikhlas untuk membela agama Allah SWT.
2. Wanita yang solehah (baik) itu lebih baik daripada 1000 lelaki yang soleh.
3. Barangsiapa yang menggembirakan anak perempuannya, darjatnya seumpama orang yang sentiasa menangis kerana takutkan Allah .Dan orang yang takutkan Allah SWT akan diharamkan api neraka ke atas tubuhnya.
4. Wanita yang tinggal bersama anak-anaknya akan tinggal bersama aku (Rasulullah SAW) di dalam syurga.
5. Barangsiapa membawa hadiah (barang makanan dari pasar ke rumah lalu diberikan kepada keluarganya) maka pahalanya seperti melakukan amalan bersedekah.Hendakla h mendahulukan anak perempuan daripada anak lelaki. Maka barangsiapa yang menyukakan anak perempuan seolah-olah dia memerdekakan anak Nabi Ismail.
6. Syurga itu di bawah telapak kaki ibu.
7. Barangsiapa mempunyai tiga anak perempuan atau tiga saudara perempuan atau dua anak perempuan atau dua saudara perempuan lalu dia bersikap ihsan dalam pergaulan dengan mereka dan mendidik mereka dengan penuh rasa takwa serta sikap bertanggungjawab, maka baginya adalah syurga.
8. Apabila memanggil akan dirimu dua orang ibu bapamu, maka jawablah panggilan ibumu terlebih dahulu.
9. Daripada Aisyah r.a.'Barangsiapa yang diuji dengan sesuatu daripada anak-anak perempuannya lalu dia berbuat baik kepada mereka, maka mereka akan menjadi penghalang baginya daripada api neraka.
10. Wanita yang taat berkhidmat kepada suaminya akan tertutuplah pintu-pintu neraka dan terbuka pintu-pintu syurga. Masuklah dari mana-mana pun pintu yang dia kehendaki dengan tidak dihisab.
11. Wanita yang taat pada suaminya, maka semua ikan-ikan di laut, burung di udara, malaikat di langit, matahari dan bulan semua beristighfar baginya selama mana dia taat kepada suaminya serta menjaga solat dan puasanya.
12. Aisyah r.a berkata, 'Aku bertanya kepada Rasulullah, siapakah yang lebih besar haknya terhadap wanita?' Jawab Rasulullah SAW 'Suaminya.' ' Siapa pula berhak terhadap lelaki?' Jawab Rasulullah SAW, 'Ibunya.'
13. Perempuan apabila sembahyang lima waktu, puasa di bulan Ramadhan, memelihara kehormatannya serta kepada suaminya, masuklah dia dari pintu syurga mana sahaja yang dikehendaki.
14. Tiap perempuan yang menolong suaminya dalam urusan agama, maka Allah SWT memasukkan dia ke dalam syurga terlebih dahulu daripada suaminya (10,000 tahun).
15. Apabila seseorang perempuan mengandung janin dalam rahimnya, maka beristighfarlah para malaikat untuknya Allah SWT mencatatkan baginya setiap hari dengan 1,000 kebajikan dan menghapuskan darinya 1,000 kejahatan.
16. Apabila seseorang perempuan mulai sakit hendak bersalin, maka Allah SWT mencatatkan baginya pahala orang yang berjihad pada jalan Allah.
17. Apabila seseorang perempuan melahirkan anak, keluarlah dia dari dosa-dosa seperti keadaan ibunya melahirkannya.
18. Apabila telah lahir anak lalu disusui, maka bagi ibu itu setiap satu tegukan daripada susunya diberi satu kebajikan.
19. Apabila semalaman seorang ibu tidak tidur dan memelihara anaknya yang sakit, maka Allah SWT memberinya pahala seperti memerdekakan 70 orang hamba dengan ikhlas untuk membela agama Allah SWT.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Science & Mathematics in English
Berikut adalah kenyataan Tun Dr MAHATHIR ttg isu diatas. Petikan diambil daripada blog beliau www.chedet.com.
1. Saya mengaku bertanggungjawab berkenaan mengajar Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris. Kerana itu ramai yang menuduh saya tidak bersemangat kebangsaan Melayu, tidak utamakan bahasa saya.
2. Izinkan saya membuat sedikit penjelasan sebelum saya dihukum.
3. Pendapat saya ialah mereka yang bersemangat kebangsaan Melayu tidak harus utamakan hanya penguasaan bahasa ibunda sahaja tetapi juga melihat bangsanya bediri sama tinggi, duduk sama rendah dengan bangsa-bangsa yang maju di dunia. Hanya dengan fasih bertutur kata dalam bahasa sendiri dengan ilmu pengetahuan yang cetek tidak akan menjadi bangsa kita mulia dan mampu bersaing dengan jayanya dengan bangsa-bangsa maju dan dianggap setaraf dengan mereka.
4. Kita diberitahu Nabi bersabda "Tuntutlah ilmu hingga ke negeri China". Apakah dapat orang Arab tuntut ilmu orang Cina tanpa mempelajari bahasa Cina, lisan dan tulisan, terlebih dahulu?
5. Kita juga tahu orang Arab telah menguasai ilmu Sains, Matematik dan falsafah yang diterokai oleh orang Yunani (Greek) dan menterjemahkan ilmu-ilmu ini ke dalam bahasa Arab sebelum kaji selidik dilakukan untuk memperluaskan ilmu-ilmu ini.
6. Semasa bangsa-bangsa yang beragama Islam iaitu Arab, Turki, Uzbek dan lain-lain berjaya bangunkan tamadun Islam yang gemilang, bangsa-bangsa Eropah berada "di zaman gelap", zaman mereka tidak berilmu dan percaya kepada kuasa-kuasa ghaib terhadap segala kejadian alam.
7. Pada abad ke-15 Masehi, orang Eropah yang berkurun-kurun kagum dengan tamadun orang Islam mula sedar akan ilmu pengetahuan dalam bidang sains, perubatan, matematik, astronomi yang dimiliki orang yang berbahasa Arab serta sumbangan ilmu-ilmu ini kepada tamadun gemilang Islam. Paderi-paderi Kristian Eropah belajar bahasa Arab untuk mendapat akses kepada ilmu-ilmu yang berada dalam kutub-khanah milik Arab dan orang Islam lain.
8. Mereka mempelajari semua ilmu-ilmu ini dalam bahasa Arab dan menterjemahkan kedalam bahasa Latin, dan kemudian kepada bahasa-bahasa Eropah. Kemudian mereka pula membuat kajian dan memperluaskan semua ilmu-ilmu ini. Maka terdirilah tamadun Eropah yang terus maju hingga ke zaman sekarang.
9. Yang jelas daripada sejarah ialah penguasaan ilmu yang ada pada bangsa lain bermula dengan penguasaan bahasa bangsa-bangsa ini.
10. Apakah kita tidak mungkin mengadakan segelintir daripada orang Melayu mempelajari bahasa ilmu di zaman ini, iaitu bahasa Inggeris supaya mereka dapat menterjemahkan ilmu-ilmu ini kepada bahasa Melayu. Dengan itu orang Melayu lain boleh kuasai ilmu-ilmu ini dalam bahasa Melayu, tanpa mempelajari bahasa Inggeris.
11. Malangnya keadaan sekarang tidak seperti abad ke-15 dan sebelumnya. Ilmu di zaman dahulu terhad, dan tidak bertambah dengan pesat.
12. Di zaman ini ilmu Sains dan Matematik yang amat penting untuk membangun dan memajukan masyarakat manusia, kembang dan bertambah dengan pesatnya. Tiap hari, tiap bulan dan tiap tahun ilmu baru yang diperbaharui sepanjang masa, diperkenalkan oleh para saintis dan pengkajiselidik kepada masyarakat dunia. Ilmu matematik terutama algorizmi dan perhitungan yang kompleks digunakan untuk mengetahui apa hasil jangka panjang daripada sesuatu teori dan untuk menentukan gerakan bintang di langit supaya kapal angkasa dapat menemui sasaran setelah berjalan berbulan-bulan.
13. Dimasa yang sama banyak ilmu baru diperkenalkan yang berasas kepada kuasa elektrik, gerakan atom, sains halus atau nano science, asas-asas fisiologi kehidupan tumbuh-tumbuhan dan makhluk Allah dan berbagai-bagai lagi.
14. Hakikatnya ialah jumlah ilmu baru dan kepantasan perkembangannya tidak dapat dikejar oleh penterjemah Melayu yang sedikit yang ada. Harus diingat untuk menterjemah tiap ilmu khusus dalam bidang Sains memerlukan bukan sahaja kefasihan dalam bahasa Melayu dan Inggeris, tetapi juga kepakaran dalam ilmu berkenaan. Kita tidak punyai dengan mencukupi orang yang berkebolehan seperti ini. Jika ada beberapa kerat orang seperti ini mereka tidak mungkin sanggup bekerja sebagai penterjemah seumur hidup mereka.
15. Sebaliknya jika kita belajar Sains dan Matematik dalam bahasa Inggeris kita akan dapat akses secara langsung sendiri semua ilmu yang diterokai dan dibukukan dalam bahasa Inggeris tanpa menunggu pengalih bahasa kita. Tiap-tiap tajuk yang terkini dan yang lama terbuka untuk kita menguasainya. Dengan itu kita tidak akan ketinggalan daripada segi ilmu pengetahuan berbanding dengan bangsa yang maju.
16. Sesungguhnya agama kita menuntut supaya kita kuasai ilmu-ilmu ini. Sebagai orang Islam kita perlu bersedia untuk mempertahankan umat Islam. Di zaman dahulu kuda perang, pemanah, pedang dan tombak memadai untuk pertahanan.
17. Di zaman ini kita perlu kereta perisai, meriam dan roket, pesawat pejuang dan pengebom, kapal perang dan kapal selam. Kita tak mungkin cipta dan bina semua ini tanpa ilmu sains dan matematik. Kita boleh beli daripada orang lain tetapi ini bermakna kita letak diri kita di bawah cengkaman mereka.
18. Jika kita ingin amal ajaran Al-Quran berkenaan dengan keperluan pertahanan bagi umat Islam maka penguasaan ilmu sains dan matematik perlu menjadi sebahagian daripada fardhu kifayah bagi kita. Ia bukan ilmu sekular seperti diperkata sesetengah orang. Ia adalah sesuatu yang diwajib keatas diri kita.
19. Jika kita abaikan ilmu ini semata-mata kerana kita lebih utamakan bahasa kita, dan dengan itu kita jadi bangsa yang kolot dan lemah, dan dihina oleh orang, kita tidak boleh dakwa yang kita adalah pejuang bangsa dan agama. Orang yang rela bangsanya dihina tidak faham akan makna nasionalisme yang sebenar atau tanggungjawab orang Islam terhadap agama mereka.
20. Bagi saya pejuang bangsa yang betul-betul bersemangat perlu bermatlamat untuk menjadikan bangsanya bermaruah, dihormati oleh semua bangsa lain dan berkebolehan bersaing dalam apa juga bidang dengan kemungkinan berjaya.
21. Pemimpin dan pejuang yang hanya ingin disukai ramai dan kerana itu sanggup membiar bangsanya menjadi kolot dan hina, bukanlah pemimpin yang sayang bangsanya. Mereka hanyalah oportunis yang sanggup gadai bangsa sendiri asalkan mereka dapat kekalkan kedudukan mereka. Mereka ini bukan nasionalis dalam erti kata sebenar.
22. Bahasa jiwa bangsa. Tetapi ilmu menentukan keselamatan dan maruah bangsa.
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