Bernama
The announcement that International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali will table a Cabinet paper on Malaysia’s new investment policy this week is welcome news.
Less welcome are the reports that it focuses on innovation, technology and digital investments, which raises concerns that it might miss the target in creating wider value in the economy.
The announcement comes hard on the heels of Microsoft’s US$1 billion (RM4.1 billion) five-year investment in Malaysia which is expected to generate US$4.6 billion (RM19 billion) in revenue and create around 19,000 jobs for Malaysians, including 4,000 related to information technology.
Right and wrong in online higher education 11 Apr 2021 / 20:39 H.
AS we enter the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic, many universities, particularly owners of private institutions, have finally decided to change their teaching and learning model or, more accurately, business model.
Crushed by a year of falling student income and fixed costs, and forced into online teaching, millions of dollars and faculty hours are being spent to convert course material, assessments and notes into online formats as quickly as possible.
The economics of this model is simple. Once the core course content has been created and uploaded, it can be used for many years with minimal maintenance. It is almost always of a minimum standard and there is rarely any appetite to improve it.
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