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09/02/2021

Incorporating 21st Century skills into the classroom

By Nurul Nurhabibi Hijazi, Lecturer, School of Education, MPU & Language What is 21st-Century Learning? Students nowadays spend their lives in a variety of media because they have been surrounded by it all their lives. This is due to world changes at an unprecedented rate. Educators are continually faced with new challenges in order to...
05/02/2021

A brave yet scary new world – the pandemic & how it’s affecting teenage mental health

The twenty-first century dawned upon us all with much promise and expectation.  It was supposed to have been the dawn of an era of amazing technology and incredible human advancement.  And in many ways, it has been.  It was all going nicely, actually, until the COVID-19 came along in 2019 and struck fear into all...
05/02/2021

Graphic designer vs digital designer

By Nesamalar A/P Damalingam, Lecturer, School of Creative Art & Design “What is the difference between graphic design and digital design?”  This is a question that many students interested in design often ask. Although both graphic and digital design are founded on the same fundamental knowledge and principles, graphic designers lack the digital skills which...
25/01/2021

How safe is your pregnancy when you are Rhesus negative?

By Siti Marlina Saleh, Lecturer, School of Allied Health Sciences Blood Group Do you know your blood group? Some people are A positive, some are A negative and so on. The “A blood” group refers to ABO blood grouping while the positive and negative refers to Rhesus blood grouping. You are Rhesus positive when u...
25/01/2021

The most employable degree programmes of the future

As we enter full swing into the year 2021, still reeling from and reacting to the most ubiquitous and unrelenting pandemic the world has ever seen, many of you might be feeling concerned, and even apprehensive, about your future and what it holds.  Yes, many people have lost their jobs, or at least look as...
20/01/2021

Crowdfunding will be the ‘new norm’: its regulatory and tax advantages in Malaysia

By Vijayasekar A/L Paramasivam, Senior Lecturer cum Programme Leader, School of Business Equity crowdfunding (ECF) is a new and smart way to raise funds. Critics used to say that these platforms were considered as “flop”, failed techniques or “exclusive” only for technology and high-end companies. They are wrong, of course, for its advantages are quite...
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