UNIVERSITY students are intellectually weak because they are lazy and not because they are spending time in politics, a backbencher said yesterday.
"They don't go to the library and pursue additional knowledge to improve their minds.
"They don't read reference books as these are in English. They said it is difficult, gives them a headache. They go for examinations equipped only with the information obtained from the lecture hall," he said during the debate on the Universities and University Colleges (Amendment) Bill 2008.
The bill seeks to give more freedom to undergraduates in the country's 18 public universities to take part in campus activities.
Tajuddin said the undergraduates should be concentrating on improving themselves to face the rat race.
Responding to the widely-held perception that university students were not doing well in their studies because of involvement in politics, he said: "I am not saying politics is not important. I am saying they should concentrate on improving their minds first.
"This country needs engineers, accountants, industrialists, entrepreneurs."
He said the country needed to move forward by becoming producers rather than becoming consumers.
Tajuddin said his observations were based on his experience interviewing undergraduates for work in his company.
"I have interviewed many of them and although they were graduates, they had little general knowledge. What little general knowledge they had was poor because they did not read enough," he said.
Ahmad Maslan (BN-Pontian) said the changes in the Universities and University Colleges Act would improve the administration of universities.
He said the government should find ways to encourage idealism among university students.
"It has to be established if student activism had brought about poor performance among them," he said.
Khairy Jamaluddin (BN-Rembau) did not think there was a correlation between academic excellence and politicking.-
He felt there should not be double standards and the government should allow opposition parties to be active on campuses.
NST
By : V. Vasudevan, Eileen Ng, Irdiani Mohd Salleh and Seth Tun Ismail
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I agree within the student are lazy also they not want to read other things as from lecturer note. For me which is on postgraduate study feels that there should be doing more "amendments" in teaching and our university style of learning.
I am agree as before this which has been talk to built research university. There must be a lot of research within the education syllabus start from matriculation maybe. The mindset need to be change.
If we observe, still nowadays student just think to finish undergraduate to pick great job with great salaries. Just that! Not to give contribution to the country on what their study. Thats why there is a little who is famous locally and internationally.
Great Minds start from now!
It means that the student should not be restricted to talk. they can talk anything as they want. This will lead to great thinking. I assured there still a lot of "projected" for the student need to be developed by all. Not just the government but all private and government sector.
For example, if there is an issue the corporation can give assignment for the student to be really focused on the real world. This will make generation greater. Also it will generate their idea into creative and innovative.
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