- 'Future generations need higher order thinking skills' at 12 July 2012
PUTRAJAYA -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today called for the country's education system to focus on developing intellectual capital, saying the effort was necessary to equip the future generations with the higher order of thinking skills.
He said this was important because the country aspired to prepare the younger generation to enjoy not only the benefits of today but also the more glorious future.
In the future, the younger generation would have to occupy jobs which might not exist today, and the challenge of the country was to find ways to prepare them for that scenario, he said.
"How do we prepare them for jobs that do not exist? The answer is that we cannot because we do not know the types of job that do not exist yet. We can only prepare them in terms of their capacity to think ... (to take them to) the higher order of thinking skills," he said at the Premier Assembly of Outstanding Teachers 2012 at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre, here.
"This is to make them not only sharp and in-depth in their thinking but also to be creative and innovative, so that they have the flexibility to adapt to any situation that may arise," he said. -- Bernama
Source : The New Straits Times, written by Bernama http://www.nst.com.my/latest/future-generations-need-higher-order-thinking-skills-1.106524#
- Muslims urged to pioneer discoveries, techs using local
resources at 12 July 2012
KUALA LUMPUR: Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia (Ikim) chairman Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today urged Muslims in the country to pioneer discoveries and technologies utilising local natural resources.
"We need to be ahead of others as we have rich natural resources which we often do not make use of," said the former prime minister.
"Foreign scientists undertake research in our jungles and come up with discoveries from the natural resources we own," he said at the opening of the forum 'Understanding Islam, Building Civilisations' and the launch of the Ikim Internet TV, here.
The Ikim Internet TV will introduce four main channels, namely IKIMfm, Perspective, Live Telecast and Exclusive Channel.
Abdullah said the Ikim Internet TV was set up to expand the delivery of information on the understanding of Islam, easily and speedily and to a wider Muslim and non-Muslim audience.
Members of the public can tune in to the religious academic programmes on Ikim Internet TV by surfing www.internettvikim.my. -- BERNAMA
Source : The New Straits Times, written by Bernama http://www.nst.com.my/latest/muslims-urged-to-pioneer-discoveries-techs-using-local-resources-1.106461#
