Education Talk

Nursing and pharmacy offer good career prospects to those who choose to pursue their studies in the two fields and take them as professions of choice.

This will be shared and elaborated further by veterans in both respective fields during the upcoming Star Education Fair 2009.

According to the head of Sime Darby Nursing and Health Sciences College, Shanaz Jamal, graduates in nursing are highly demanded in the market and jobs are virtually guaranteed upon them finishing studies. The shortage of nurses in Malaysia at the moment means that nurses do not have to look far beyond the country’s shore for job opportunities.

Shanaz will be speaking on nursing scholarship, institutions offering related courses and the career path waiting for a nurse during the education fair.

As for pharmacy, John Chang, who represents the Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society, will be speaking to audience. John went on to say that a salary for a fresh graduate in pharmacy can range between RM3,700 and RM4,000, a relatively high pay for new grads.

The Star Education Fair 2009 will be held between 10 and 11 January (Saturday and Sunday) at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, KLCC.

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If you are 18 years of age or younger, why not enter the Commonwealth Essay Competition and pit your writing skills against students of the same age around the world? There are lots of prizes - and you may even get your essay published. 

Every year, the Commonwealth Essay Competition inspires thousands of young writers from all over the world. Organised by the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Competition has been running for over 100 years and is firmly established as a highly regarded and popular international education project. With young people writing from all Commonwealth countries and territories, the Competition enjoys much esteem and support throughout the Commonwealth. 

The aims of the Competition are: 

• to provide a unique opportunity for schools throughout the Commonwealth to take part in a global education project 
• to raise awareness of the ethical and humanitarian values which lie at the heart of the Commonwealth’s ethos 
• to highlight important local and global issues and encourage their discussion 
• to promote the use of English as a leading world language in a fun and attractive way 
• to enable young people to compete on equal terms with their peers from around the world, whatever their social or scholastic background  
• to encourage young people to aspire to high standards of academic scholarship and creative writing 
• to stimulate young people into good utilisation of modern information technology and communication skills

The Competition is organised in four age bands, which are called Classes. They are: 

• Class A - 16-18 years 
• Class B - 14-15 years 
• Class C - 12-13 years 
• Class D - under 12 years 

 For details, visit www.rcsint.org/essay.The Competition deadline is 1st March 2009

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Ministry of Education has opened the application for Sekolah Menengah Teknik for session 2009/2010.

Eventhough the system use look simple, but you can get whatever you want in respect of your application there such as list of courses, minimum qualification and of course to check your application status later on.

Please remember the closing date of application is on 15 January 2009.

If interested, you can apply it here.

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By now I guess most of the 2008 PMR candidates have received their PMR result.  I believe this just a beginning of your future and there are lot of challenges that waiting for you ahead. For those who scored flying colours congratulations, and for those unlucky ones, don’t worries much as you have another 2 years to improve in your SPM.

Irrespective of your PMR result what next ? Of course for those obtained good result will have wider options to choose from.  In this post, I would like to share few things that you can do after PMR :

• For those obtained result you might want to try  MRSM/Sekolah Berasrama Penuh. Get new experience, new friend and new challenges here.
• For those more into technical courses, SM Teknik will best suit you.
• Not many excellent students want to choose  SM Vokasional, but if you think vocational courses is the best for you, don’t turn back just proceed.
• Remain in your present school. Remember the best SPM students  Azali Azlan &  Nur Amalina came from normal school too.

Please note that the application for Sekolah Teknik is now open, you can view it here http://www.moe.gov.my
Science, technical or Art Stream?

What course to choose? Where to go? For me this will highly depend on your interest, your result your capability and of course with some luck.

During my time, we used to have only maximum of 10 subjects, but now you can have as many as 20 subjects for SPM. For me this is ridiculous, don’t try to follow excellent students like Amalina and Azali. Take 10-12 is just enough  !

Co-curriculum is important

If you are non-active students before PMR, try to change. Be active in any school activities, build up your leadership skills here. And guess what ? Your Co-curriculum activities involvement will be be one of the criteria for your future plan (i.e applying for matriculation, college, universities, scholarship, loan). So start now ! please.

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Star Education Fair returns with a series of talks by experienced speakers to help set course for your educational and professional future. With an array of topics available, make sure you don’t miss out on this rare opportunity.

The admission for this event is free amongst other things that you can explore in this event such as Hot Jobs : Trends in the next 5 years, Options after SPM, Funding Higher Education.

The details as follows :

• Date : 10 & 11 January 2009
• Time : 11.00 am to 7.00 pm
• Venue :   KL Convention Centre

For details, visit http://thestar.com.my/education/edufair08/

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