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Computing Students Selected to MMSA 2020 Program

Bachelor of Science (Honours) Information Systems (Business Analytics) students, Chan Wei Chee, Chan Wei Wei鈥

No Fees, No Teachers and No Classrooms: Sunway Launches 42KL, Malaysia鈥檚 First Such Coding School

42 is the first in the world to offer peer-to-peer learning and is completely merit-based. The only requirement is that students must be above 18 years old. This ground-breaking coding school has a disruptive educational model as it has no tuition fees, no teachers, and no traditional classrooms.鈥

How To Drag Ourselves Into The 21st Century

When I was a young lad working as a management trainee, I came across a department called Organisation and Methods (O鈥

Education with Values

I have been working at 黑料社for over three years. I came to help build pro卢vision in the arts, specifically, as head of a department with courses in film, music and theatre. Since then, that department has grown from a handful of students to nearly 300 and I have taken up a new role as鈥

Creativity - The Secret of Business Success

Universities now turn out thousands of graduates every year who yearn to build successful careers for themselves. Some aspire to be successful entrepreneurs building their own enterprises, which is very much to be applauded as necessary for economic growth. But no matter how much training and鈥

What If Customers Are Not Always Right?

What disgruntled customers want are reasonable answers to their concerns. With the growth in e-Feedback platforms (e.g. Google review, Facebook Business Review, TripAdvisor and Booking.com) and e-Feedback apps (Mopinion, Apptentive, AppStark and Doorbell), customer relationship management should be鈥

Ways to Improve Innovation Success Rates in Universities

March 12, 2019 marked my first anniversary of working at a university. Firmly planted in a 鈥済row fast or die slow鈥 commercial world, I had never considered a university as a possible workplace. While pursuing my passion for thinking ahead and putting trend-setting ideas into action, I was dubious鈥

Sustainability in the Age of Disruption

In a recent interview, James Manyika from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) asked Thomas L Friedman, the New York Times journalist and writer, about climate change. In a candid yet gutsy manner, Friedman admitted that he could do nothing about climate change but to try to 鈥渕anage the unavoidable鈥

Racism and Lessons from George Floyd

Something more sinister than COVID-19 is hiding unnoticed. For the past five months, the world has witnessed and experienced in awe and fear the unfolding of COVID-19 from one epicentre to another鈥攆rom Asia to Europe to North America and now South America. To date, the coronavirus has infected鈥

Resetting The Accountancy Profession In Malaysia

There is general acknowledgement that the accountancy profession, if appropriately structured, supported and regulated, contributes significantly to a sound, sustainable and growing economy. The accountancy profession is poised to play an instrumental role in nation building. The World Bank in its鈥

The Importance of Presentation Skills in Institutions of Higher Learning

Presentation skills are one of the essential skill sets for students in institutions of higher learning. To help them improve their presentation skills, students are encouraged to use systematic methods to facilitate their presentations in the classroom. The main purpose of emphasising presentation鈥

The Cost Of A Toxic Co-Worker

As managers are aware, the right employee or team member is crucial in taking organisations along its evolutionary path. Literature is abound with examples of the role that co-workers play to ensure organisations achieve their objectives of both profitability and employee satisfaction. There is鈥