Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha

Kepada semua yang mengenali kami terutama saudara mara, kami mengucapkan Selamat Hari Raya Aidiladha Maaf Zahir Batin. Moga-moga segala pengorbanan yang dilakukan menepati semangat dan erti sebenar hari raya korban.

Apa dah jadi ni??

1 juta wanita gemuk, 850,000 lelaki gempal
12-12-2007 03:10:01 PM

KUALA LUMPUR: Bilangan wanita gemuk mengatasi lelaki boyot dalam kalangan penduduk negara ini yang berumur 25 hingga 64 tahun, Dewan Rakyat diberitahu hari ini.
Setiausaha Parlimen Kementerian Kesihatan Datuk Lee Kah Choo berkata Kajian Faktor Risiko Penyakit Kronik yang dijalankan oleh Kementerian Kesihatan tahun lepas menunjukkan terdapat satu juta wanita gemuk berbanding 850,000 lelaki gempal.
"Dalam erti kata lain terdapat 19 wanita gemuk bagi setiap 100 wanita berbanding 14 lelaki gemuk bagi setiap 100 orang lelaki dalam kumpulan umur yang sama," katanya menjawab soalan Datuk Dr Rahman Ismail (BN-Gombak).
Lee berkata kajian itu mendapati 5.8 juta penduduk Malaysia berumur antara 25 dan 64 tahun mengalami masalah berat badan berlebihan dan kegemukan.
"Kegemukan meningkatkan risiko seseorang itu mendapat penyakit kronik seperti jantung, diabetes, strok dan kanser," katanya.
Lee berkata antara faktor yang menyebabkan kegemukan adalah keturunan, gaya hidup dan pemakanan.
Beliau berkata bahawa bagi mengawal masalah itu, kementerian melaksanakan langkah pencegahan jangka panjang antaranya dengan menganjurkan kempen cara hidup sihat, menjalankan pengesanan awal kegemukan di klinik kesihatan dan hospital, melaksanakan program pengurusan berat badan dan menganjurkan kem kesihatan. BERNAMA

p/s ish!ish! takutnya..

Nobel Prize 2007

NOBEL PRIZE WEEK
Nobel winners take prizes in Stockholm
Published: 10 Dec 07 18:10 CETOnline: http://www.thelocal.se/9367/

The winners of the 2007 Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and economics received their awards from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on Monday.
The two eldest laureates, 88-year-old British novelist Doris Lessing who won the literature prize and 90-year-old economics co-prizewinner Leonid Hurwicz of the United States, were absent due to poor health.In Norway, the winners of the prestigious peace prize, former US vice president Al Gore and the UN's top climate panel IPCC, received their award at a separate ceremony at Oslo's city hall earlier on Monday.The Nobel prizes are traditionally presented on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the creator of the awards, Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, in 1896.The Stockholm ceremony, held amid pomp and circumstance in the capital's Concert Hall, was to be followed by a gala banquet for 1,300 guests at City Hall attended by Sweden's royal family and members of the government.Each Nobel prize consists of a diploma, a gold medal, and a cheque for 10 million Swedish kronor ($1.56 million) to be shared if there is more than one laureate.The prizewinners, decked out in white tie and tails, each accepted their awards from the hands of the king and bowed to the royal family and assembled guests as a fanfare played.The eight being honoured were economics laureates Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson of the United States, Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies of the United States and Briton Martin Evans for the medicine prize, Gerhard Ertl of Germany for the chemistry prize, and physics laureates Peter Gruenberg of Germany and Albert Fert of France.At the Oslo festivities, Gore said in his acceptance speech that humanity was "waging war" on the Earth and urged the United States and China to join the fight against global warming as he accepted his prize."Both countries should stop using the other's behaviour as an excuse for stalemate and instead develop an agenda for mutual survival in a shared global environment," Gore said at the lavish event.
AFP (news@thelocal.se)

Nobel Banquet

Nobel Banquet: the feast of feasts
Published: 10 Dec 07 10:16 CETOnline: http://www.thelocal.se/9358/

Serving a banquet to nearly 1,400 people is no mean feat, and when the event is the Nobel Banquet, the stakes are high. Charlotte West goes behind the scenes at the grandest event in Sweden's calendar.
A feast fit for a king would be an exaggerated description of just about any meal, no matter how palatable, with the exception of the annual Nobel Banquet. The weeklong blitz climaxes on Monday with the feast of feasts – arguably one of the grandest dinners in the world. The whole event is shrouded in mystery, and the menu is top secret until the almost 1,400 guests are seated at the banquet in the Blue Hall of the Stockholm City Hall at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 10th.
The composition of this year's menu is the result of the combined culinary prowess of chefs Krister Dahl, head of the Swedish Culinary Team, and Magnus Johansson, proprietor of the Xoko dessert cafe in Stockholm. This will be Johansson's sixth year of providing the Nobel dessert.
Last year, the eight Nobel laureates – and 1,240 other guests celebrating the memory of Alfred Nobel – enjoyed a spread featuring mosaic of salmon and scallops, herb-baked saddle of lamb and pineapple parfait. Of the 2007 menu, however, those involved remain silent. “It will be good. Really exquisite tastes,” was all the tight-lipped Dahl would tell newspaper Göteborgs-Posten. “We have prepared everything for the Nobel Committee four times, and it has obviously been approved,” he said. Simplicty, Dahl said, was the key to success. “It's about creating a functional menu, which should be relatively easy to make, and then everything must be served quickly,” he said. “It's a really big secret,” Linda Johansson of Xoko told The Local.
Whatever the delicacies turn out to be, they have been designed around a Scandinavian-related theme and are sure to whet the appetite – and keep the 30 chefs and 200 servers on their toes. There are tables to set and food to buy. According to the Nobel Foundation, one year the shopping list for the banquet consisted of 2,692 pigeon breasts, 475 lobster tails, 100 kilos of potatoes, 70 liters of sweet and sour raspberry vinegar sauce, 67 kilos of Jerusalem artichokes, 53 kilos of Philadelphia cheese, and 45 kilos of lightly smoked salmon, among other ingredients. With so many cooks in the kitchen, Ulf Östenius, General Manager of Stadshuskällaren restaurant, must run a tight ship. Östenius, along with Chef de Cuisine Gunnar Eriksson, is the man charged with the small task of making sure the logistics of Nobel Banquet go according to plan – something which is not to be taken for granted. In an interview with the City of Stockholm, Östenius said that one year the main course was some kind of poultry that had been pre-cooked. It was supposed to be warmed up in the oven right as the electricity went out. They had to begin again with new raw ingredients, but nevertheless managed to make it appear seamless. Another year, there was a panic because one of the laureates suddenly haunched over the table, but it turned out he had simply fallen asleep. Despite the stories about near-disasters, Östenius somehow manages to coordinate his team of 200 and still make the entire production seem effortless.
On the morning of the feast, more than 7,000 porcelain pieces, 5,000 glasses and 10,000 pieces of silverware must be meticulously laid out on the 470 metres of linen that adorns the banquet's 65 tables. And while expectant guests anticipate their royal meal, it takes six minutes from the time the waiters begin the procession down the steps until everyone has been served. The king is served first, immediately followed by the queen. The menu is decided upon months in advance. In August and September, the chefs prepare sample menus and present them to the Nobel Committee for tasting.
Linda Johansson of Xoko told The Local that they presented three different dessert options to the Nobel Committee, which then chose the final selection. The good news is that you don't have to be a rocket scientist to get the red-carpet culinary treatment. As of Tuesday, December 11th, you can order the Nobel menu at Stadshuskällaren, also located in the Stockholm City Hall. Unfortunately, the restaurant will only be serving the three-course meal to groups of 20 or more until January 7th, when the 2007 Nobel menu will become standard fare.
The only exception is December 31st, where you can book a table to celebrate New Year's Eve Nobel-style. Stadshuskällaren also offers every Nobel menu served since 1901 for groups of eight or more. Reservations must be booked one week ahead. Xoko will also serve the Nobel dessert, including for takeaway, beginning on Tuesday. As an added bonus, they will also serve the entire Nobel spread on Wed-Saturday nights this week. But call quickly, as a representative of the cafe said there are only a few spots left.
Charlotte West (news@thelocal.se/08 656 6518)

Nobel Prize 2007

What is Nobel Week really about?
Published: 10 Dec 07 10:20 CETOnline: http://www.thelocal.se/9357/

As Nobel laureates, foreign media and a host of other dignitaries descend on Stockholm for the week of festivities culminating with the Nobel Banquet on Monday, Charlotte West recalls her conversations with two of last year’s winners about the real significance of Nobel Week.

) In the midst of all the fanfare, the 10,000 flowers, the $1.5 million prize and speculations about which spectacular dress Queen Sylvia will don at the banquet, it is easy to lose sight of the achievements on which Nobel Week is founded. In his will, Alfred Nobel created the prize to honour those who have “conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.” While the precise meaning of that statement has been the subject of great debate, its essence relates to recognizing those individuals who have made a measurable and meaningful contribution – whether in the form of scientific discoveries, inspirational words or heroic actions – to society. While I had certainly heard of the Nobel Prize while growing up, the first time I really took notice of it was at my college graduation in Seattle, where our commencement address was given by Leland Hartwell, a cancer research pioneer and the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. He made a reference to standing on stage with the king and queen of Sweden. My ears immediately perked up as I was planning to move to Stockholm the following autumn. Yet I still had no idea of what that really meant. When I began attending Stockholm University that fall, I was surprised to learn that many of the Nobel laureates would be giving their lectures in the Aula Magna auditorium on campus – and what's more, that anyone could attend. These public lectures, presented by the laureates in their respective fields, offer a rare chance to hear what some of the greatest minds of our time have to say. This openness and accessibility are one of the hallmarks of the award. In other words, by making the laureates' words, and in a sense, the laureates themselves, accessible to the public, the Nobel Prize recognizes that knowledge is not the exclusive domain of the academic elite. Last December, I had the opportunity to interview 2006 Nobel laureates Dr. Andrew Fire (Medicine/physiology) and Dr. Roger Kornberg (Chemistry), who both came from Stanford University. They each reflected on the benefits, as well as on the responsibilities, of what it means to be a Nobel laureate.Fire said that being a recipient of a Nobel award gave him the chance to reach a broader audience. “That means one has to be careful but it is also an opportunity to speak up about things. And people over the years have really taken advantage of those opportunities, mostly for good. Scientists who have been in a position to get the ear of the leadership have said things that have really steered society in directions that are important,” he said. Kornberg similarly spoke of the responsibilities that accompany the Nobel Prize. “I think it puts a bit of a burden on us for a time, to convey the message that all scientists have with regard to support of research and its importance in society. It’s a message that needs to be repeated as often as possible, so it's our job to do so,” he said. The responsibility to convey the message about the importance of science and the pursuit of knowledge is not reserved to the laureates in the hard sciences. While the prizes in chemistry, physics and medicine bring ground-breaking scientific research into the public eye, the Nobel Peace Prize and the literature prize bring the human quotient to the table. Over the years, the literature lectures have dabbled in everything from meditations on the creative process and the future of literature to polemic discussions of global politics and the evils of war. For instance, Harold Pinter in his 2005 speech, Art, Truth & Politics, chastised Bush and Blair for their perpetration of the Iraq war. This year's literature laureate, Doris Lessing, spoke out against Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, saying that books – the foundation of literacy and the stuff great writers are made of – will remain endangered species in the country as long as he remains at the political helm. “Writers are not made in Zimbabwe. Not easily, not under Mugabe,” she said. The lecture thus provided Lessing with a platform to speak her mind, while the world was listening. But perhaps more essentially, the Nobel lectures also serve to inspire, something which Lessing said was an essential ingredient for the creative process. Writers, she said, must have access to a “space, which is like a form of listening, of attention” from which “will come the words, the words your characters will speak, ideas – inspiration.”Despite the fact that Lessing was too ill to travel to Stockholm to deliver her Nobel lecture herself, her words, her message could not have been clearer. As I left the Swedish Academy on Friday, I felt a sense of intellectual wonderment that I have not experienced in a long time. In this sense, her Nobel lecture provided the impetus for inspiration, which as she said herself, is essential to any successful literary (or scientific, for that matter) pursuit. The only remaining Nobel lecture this year is the Peace lecture, scheduled to be given by former US Vice President Al Gore on Monday at 1 pm (CET) in Oslo, where he is expected to speak out about the climate crisis. At a press conference following the announcement of the Peace Prize in October, Gore said, “We have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing.”Perhaps Gore's Nobel Peace Prize lecture will be one step in the right direction. See a live webcast of Gore's Nobel Peace Prize lecture during the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony at the Oslo City Hall on Monday, December 10th. 12:50 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. (CET).
Charlotte West (news@thelocal.se/08 656 6518)

Nobel Prize winner 2007 Al-Gore

Nobel laureate Gore sees hope in "people power"
By John Acher and Wojciech Moskwa

OSLO (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore said on Sunday he was optimistic that a growing "people-power" movement would push the world's leaders to take action to stop global warming.
The former U.S. vice president likened the campaign to the ban-the-bomb movement of past decades, and urged leaders at a U.N. climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, to issue a mandate for a strong treaty to curb greenhouse gases.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore gestures as he speaks to the media during a news conference in Oslo December 9, 2007. (REUTERS/Ints Kalnins)Gore, who shared the 2007 peace prize with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for raising awareness and advancing climate science, will receive the prize in Oslo on Monday with the IPCC's chairman Rajendra Pachauri. The prize was announced in October.
"I have one reason for being optimistic, and that is that I see throughout my own country, the United States of America, and throughout the world the rising of the world's first people-power movement on a global basis," he said.
Gore pointed to an international grassroots nuclear-freeze movement which helped push U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to sign arms controls deals in the late 1980s, and said the climate campaign was even broader.
Gore and Pachauri will travel from Oslo to Bali where governments are meeting to try to launch negotiations towards an environmental treaty to succeed the Kyoto protocol which expires in 2012.
"It is my great hope that the meeting in Bali will result in a strong mandate empowering the world to move forward quickly to a meaningful treaty," Gore said.
CIVILISATION THREAT
Gore, whose Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" called for immediate action on the environment, urged for curbs on carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed by scientists for global warming.
"The engines of our great global civilisation are now pouring 70 million tonnes of global warming pollution into (the atmosphere) every single day. It is having the consequences long predicted by the scientific community," he said.
"It is now abundantly clear that we cannot continue this process," he said.
Pachauri, seated next to Gore at Oslo's Nobel Institute under ceilings adorned with white peace doves, urged world leaders to consider tough steps to tackle global warming.
"If we were to carry out this stringent mitigation, one of the scenarios that we have assessed clearly shows that we have a window of nearly seven years," Pachauri said. "That means by 2015 we will have to see that emissions of greenhouse gases peak no later than that year and start declining thereafter."
"The time for doubting the science is over. What we need now is action," said Pachauri, an Indian who is head of a body of around 2,500 climate scientists from more than 130 nations.
Referring to U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and said "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," Gore said: "In the same way, CO2 increases anywhere are a threat to the future of civilisation everywhere."
Copyright © 2007 Reuters

Gempa di Pahang???

Enam gempa bumi kecil di Bukit Tinggi, Pahang
07-12-2007 05:27:26 PM

PETALING JAYA: Timbalan Menteri Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi, Datuk Kong Cho Ha berkata enam gempa bumi berukuran antara 2.7 hingga 3.5 pada skala Richter dikesan berlaku di sekitar Bukit Tinggi Pahang sejak 30 Nov lepas sehingga semalam.
Bagaimanapun, katanya keenam-enam gempa bumi kecil itu hanya menyebabkan gegaran lemah dan tidak membahayakan nyawa dan harta benda sungguhpun ia dapat dirasai oleh penduduk di sekitar kawasan itu.
Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia, Dr Yap Kok Seng pula berkata penduduk di kawasan tersebut tidak perlu bimbang kerana gempa bumi bermagnitud sederhana atau lebih besar di jangka tidak akan berlaku di Bukit Tinggi.
"Jabatan ini akan sentiasa memantau 24 jam sehari aktiviti gempa bumi di dalam dan luar negara dan akan memaklumkan kepada orang ramai melalui radio dan televisyen jika berlaku kejadian yang boleh mengancam keselamatan orang ramai," katanya.

Dimana kita??

Finland stays top of global class
BBC NEWS Dec5 2007

South Korean academic results are flying highFinland and South Korea remain among the superpowers of education, according to a major international study.
The three-yearly Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) shows that the two countries are in the top five for reading and maths.
South Korea has made rapid progress since 2000, says the report - with its pupils improving by the equivalent of a whole school year.
The rankings are based on tests taken by 15-year-olds in 57 countries.
Finland, a consistent top performer in international education surveys, also came top of the science league table, published last week.
The survey, gathered by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), also highlights the improvements in Poland.
READING TOP 10
S. Korea
Finland
Hong Kong
Canada
New Zealand
Ireland
Australia
Liechtenstein
Poland
Sweden
Source: Pisa/OECD
Rankings in full
The rankings for reading, based on tests taken in 2006, show that Poland is ninth placed, among a group of leading countries identified as significantly above average.
The latest findings also show the extent of global competition in education - with the northern European countries now challenged by and overtaken by Asian rivals, including Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea.
South Korea has continued to strengthen its position - after a remarkable rise in achievement against international competitors.
In the 1960s, the OECD says South Korea's national wealth was similar to Afghanistan's.
MATHS TOP 10
Taiwan
Finland
Hong Kong
S.Korea
Netherlands
Switzerland
Canada
Macao-China
Liechtenstein
Japan
Source: Pisa/OECD
Rankings in full
But a sustained drive in education has seen it rise to the upper ranks in international education leagues - both in subject scores and in completion rates in secondary school.
As with Finland, there has been an emphasis in South Korea on education as a key to economic success and the "knowledge economy".
The OECD also highlights improvements in maths scores from teenagers in Mexico and Greece.
The UK has shown a downward turn in its standing - leaving the top 10 for both maths and reading despite an increase in spending on education.
It has joined other major European countries such as Germany and France in a group with "average" standards for maths and reading.
And the report says that overall the industrialised OECD countries have not seen improvements to match extra investment.
It says that between 1995 and 2004, OECD countries increased education spending by 39% on average, but that in response "learning outcomes have generally remained flat".

p/s tepat ke laporan ni??

Dimana kita??

Media dan akal budi generasi muda
3-12-2007 10:52:23 AM

PUJANGGA Melayu pernah berpesan, "melentur buluh biarlah dari rebungnya" yang masih muda dan lembut. Pokok buluh tua yang sudah keras akan patah kalau dilenturkan.
Pengajaran bagi kita adalah, zaman kanak-kanak dan muda-remaja adalah tahap penting dalam membentuk budipekerti, akhlak, perangai, watak dan minda. Akhlak dan perangai watak yang telah terakam semenjak zaman kanakkanak dan mudaremaja sukar untuk dihapuskan atau diubah.
Masalahnya, golongan kanak-kanak dan muda-remaja belum mampu membezakan antara yang benar dengan yang palsu. Sedangkan, dalam masa yang sama, golongan muda dan kanakkanak sangat perlu kepada contoh tauladan yang baik dari segi akhlak, pemikiran dan kehidupan.
Bayangkanlah pula apa yang akan terjadi sekiranya anak-anak dan generasi muda kita membesar di tengah-tengah gambaran-gambaran atau imej-imej media yang buruk dari segi akhlaknya yang sentiasa disuapkan kepada mereka.
Sebagai contoh, bayangkanlah apa yang akan berlaku kepada penonton berusia muda sekiranya dalam rancangan-rancangan televisyen kita, orang-orang yang jahat ditunjukkan sebagai selalunya bahagia, sementara orang-orang yang baik ditunjukkan bersifat melarat; orang-orang yang tidak jujur ditanggap sebagai selalu untung (iaitu kalau penyelewengannya tersorok daripada pihak berkuasa), sementara orang-orang yang mempunyai sifat amanah ditanggap sebagai merugikan diri sendiri.
SATU PERSEPSI NEGATIF
Tentulah penonjolan budaya yang seperti ini akan merosak dan mengeruhkan citarasa penonton Malaysia amnya dan generasi muda khasnya.
Memanglah membaca atau menonton satu atau dua karya atau rancangan yang buruk tidak akan terus menjadikan seseorang itu individu yang jahat. Walau bagaimanapun, ia tetap akan meninggalkan kesan bahawa kejahatan itu adalah sesuatu yang biasa dan menyeronokkan.
Akibatnya, pembaca atau penonton mungkin terbiasa dengan gambaran atau imej bagaimana aksi bergaduh atau aksi ganas sangat berkesan dalam menyelesaikan masalah secara yang pantas; minuman yang memabukkan dipaparkan sebagai suatu perkara menarik dan bukannya memudaratkan; perlakuan seksual pula tidak perlu kepada sebarang peraturan.
Demikianlah, ibarat makanan yang berbisa bagi akal dan roh, gambaran dan imej media yang berbahaya dari segi akhlaknya sama ada secara langsung mahupun tidak, hari demi hari, sedikit demi sedikit, secara senyap-senyap akan membarah merosakkan roh dan meracuni akal-fikiran anak-anak kita generasi muda.
Memetik katakata Nicholas Johnson, "All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?," perkataan dan ucapan yang cabul dan carut, bahasa dan gambar yang tidak senonoh, jika diambil ringan, akan membawa kepada perbuatan yang cabul dan perlakuan yang tidak senonoh juga.
Tentulah golongan kanak-kanak dan muda-remaja tidak seharusnya dibenar mendengar atau mengulang perkaraperkara tersebut.
Bayangkanlah betapa hebatnya cabaran anak-anak kita pada hari ini yang membesar dalam persekitaran yang siang-malamnya di kelilingi media, daripada televisyen darat dan TV satelit serta internet, membawa kepada media iPod, wayang gambar, telefon mudah-alih, dan permainan video serta sebagainya lagi.
MEWUJUDKAN PERSEKITARAN SIHAT
Kita tidak sepatutnya membiarkan sahaja generasi muda, sama ada secara langsung ataupun tidak langsung, menerima sahaja idea-idea asing, yang sebahagiannya jauh bertentangan dengan apa yang kita cita-citakan sebagai satu bangsa yang beragama.
Kita mempunyai tanggungjawab yang berat untuk mengikhtiarkan anakanak kita generasi muda hidup dalam suasana yang sihat, di tengah-tengah rancangan dan program media yang mempunyai kesan yang elok dan manis.
Karya, rancangan dan program yang kita hasilkan atau yang kita benarkan untuk disebarkan, akan terpancar ke dalam mata dan telinga anak-anak kita generasi muda, seperti angin bayu yang jernih lagi menyegarkan.
Janganlah kita melepaskan peluang keemasan untuk secara halus menarik roh anak-anak kita dari tahun-tahun awal mereka lagi ke arah yang bersetujuan dengan kesopanan dan kesusilaan yang juga merupakan Rukun Negara yang kelima.
Walaupun media di Malaysia sedikitsebanyak telah cuba berusaha memenuhi keperluan masyarakat kita dalam mewujudkan suasana yang amanmajmuk dan keserasian masyarakat, kita belum boleh lagi berpuas hati.
Ini kerana, kita sedang berhadapan dengan cabaran besar gelombang globalisasi revolusi digital yang isinya, fahamfahamnya dan konsepkonsepnya dikuasai oleh Dunia Barat.
Gelombang yang melanda ini akan menenggelamkan bangsa kita, melainkan jika kita berjaya meningkatkan jasabakti, sumbangan dan 'dinamisme moral' demi memperkukuh jatidiri bangsa yang berlandaskan agama.

Penulis adalah Fellow Kanan/Pengarah Pusat Ekonomi dan Kajian Sosial, Institut Kefahaman Islam Malaysia (IKIM). BERNAMA

Bila nak berubah??

Peperiksaan mungkin pada minggu akhir persekolahan
03-12-2007
03:05:21 PM

KUALA LUMPUR: Kementerian Pelajaran sedang menimbang cadangan untuk mengadakan peperiksaan akhir tahun pada minggu-minggu terakhir persekolahan, kata Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran Datuk Noh Omar.
Beliau berkata peperiksaan sekarang yang diadakan terlalu awal menyebabkan masalah ponteng sekolah sering berlaku, terutamanya selepas peperiksaan tamat.
"Untuk mengatasinya kementerian telah membuat keputusan untuk mengkaji balik sistem peperiksaan yang dibuat terlalu awal sebelum cuti sekolah," katanya menjawab soalan Senator Heng Seai Kie dalam persidangan Dewan Negara hari ini.
"Jika dilihat daripada kes ponteng, data disiplin murid menunjukkan penurunan kes tersebut dari 0.97 peratus pada tahun 2002 kepada 0.6 peratus pada tahun lalu," katanya. Noh berkata jumlah kes disiplin menurun daripada 1.28 peratus pada Januari hingga Mei 2006 kepada 1.13 peratus pada tahun ini.
Katanya kementerian sedang memantapkan semula peraturan disiplin sekolah iaitu Peraturan-peraturan Pelajaran Disiplin Sekolah 1959 yang telah digunakan selama 47 tahun.
Beliau berkata Peraturan-peraturan Pendidikan Disiplin Murid 2007 yang digubal di bawah Akta Pendidikan 1996 telah dibentangkan pada satu seminar peringkat kebangsaan pada bulan lalu.
"Sebanyak 21 resolusi daripada seminar tersebut akan diteliti oleh jawatankuasa teknikal penggubalan peraturan-peraturan pendidikan dalam masa terdekat," katanya.BERNAMA

pendapat: antara alasan-alasan yang diberikan kenapa pelajar kerap ponteng sekolah:

1. peperiksaan akhir tahun diadakan terlalu awal.
2. pengajaran tidak menarik
3. kelas dan persekitaran yang tidak selesa
4. guru tidak mengajar kerana terlibat dengan kursus-kursus tertentu waktu sekolah
5. tidak meminati mata pelajaran yang diambil
6. pengajaran dan pembelajaran yang membosankan
7. terlalu banyak pengaruh luar
8. penagruh kawan-kawan yang datang ke sekolah sebagai memenuhi masa terluang
9. tiada program khusus selepas peperiksaan akhir tahun
10. kurikulum yang terlau mementingkan peperiksaan sehingga pelajar beranggapan selesai peperiksaan tidak perlu p & p
11. guru terlalu dibebani dengan kerja-kerja pengkeranian sehingga menjejaskan waktu untuk melaksanakan p & p
12. guru-guru yang tidak mesra pelajar dan hanya menumpukan kepada sukatan pelajaran semata-mata

Masalah anak-anak dan pelajar bukan hanya semata-mata terletak ditangan sekolah sebaliknya memerlukan kerjasama semua pihak. Sukatan pelajaran perlu diteliti semula dan pembaharuan perlua dibuat demi masa depan anak-anak kita. Sistem peperiksaan yang melampau perlu diubah. Sikap ibubapa dan masyarakat perlu berubah dalam memberi reaksi terhadap pengkelasan pelajar berdasarkan keputusan peperiksaan. Perkara-perkara ini melahirkan generasi robot yang pandai tetapi tiada roh serta tidak seimbang antara rohani dan jasmani.

Keruntuhan akhlak dikalangan generasi baru semakin membarah. Bila dan siapa yang akan mengubah keadaan ini??