{"id":554,"date":"2016-08-29T12:07:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T04:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/?p=554"},"modified":"2016-09-27T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T03:55:50","slug":"what-is-academia-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hazinah\/2016\/08\/what-is-academia-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What is academia today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stumbled into these two images today and they spoke to me. Not literally but figuratively, and it spoke volumes.<\/p>\n

Image\u00a0A<\/strong><\/em> (source <\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Jeff<\/a>

Jeff Koterba color cartoon for 4\/26\/2012
“Student Loan”<\/p><\/div>\n

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This one spoke to me because of the ‘business’ that is education in our nation today. Students pay a lot, especially when they go to private ‘education’ institutions. Sometimes the students leave with a certificate, a little knowledge and a lot of debt. We in UTM, in my humble opinion, should play a bigger role in helping the nation’s future get a good education, while not be burdened by a big\u00a0debt. We will also help the PGrad and research programs with a better pool of interested, knowledgeable students. It’s a WIN-WIN.<\/p>\n

Image B<\/strong> (source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"hogwarts<\/a><\/p>\n

This one scared me to the bone. It is a great unjust<\/strong> to any academia if this happens (in whatever scale). What I mean by “whatever scale”<\/em> is whether\u00a0we inflate the grade in :<\/p>\n