Violence will not support college student learning

When it was announced that the Islamic civilization and Asian studies, or Titus, will of course be made obligatory for students in private universities in Malaysia, it caused a storm of controversy. Public universities in Malaysia have been completely authorized to teach Titus all the students. The go on to expand this to private schools is controversial as private universities are believed to obtain greater autonomy.

Titus is a course that shows you about Islam, Malay, Native American, Chinese and Western cultures - the ethnic construction in Malaysia (except the western part). Content is historical, speak about "how we have here" - which should be covered in high school. Surprisingly, some members of the competitors as mercury Raffia Ramble, not only accepted it, but obviously supported the move, citing the need for greater intercultural understanding in multiethnic Malaysia.

As luck would have it, most politicians who support mandatory using Titus are those who have researched in the West - when forced rates different from those integral to the extent that are unheard of. Titus controversy is crucial, since it represents the extent to which the us government is able to intervene in the procedure of private universities.

In the event the government is empowered to compel private universities like University Malaysia Campus Nottingham to force all students - including foreign students - to do this, of course, it might challenge the independence of personal institutions and, perhaps most importantly, to students.

Such a threat to freedom scholar would have been impossible in a Western country and can most likely be met by street protests, just as when educational costs fees have come in britain. In lethargic Malaysia was greeted by a poor debate.Without any general population discussion, it seems that the Malaysian government is stubborn transaction stone.

Aesthetic solution

Titus clear point is that this is a smokescreen for basic, fundamental problems that plague this nation. It is necessary that we take a short go through the structural problems in Malaysia. Positive policies that reap the benefits of Bumiputera - son's of the soil, an expression used to send to the Malay contest and other indigenous people of Southeast Asia - still stand, although enforced since 1970, nearly 4 decades.

Racial inequality of wealth is still common. Vernacular schools - a bastion of segregation - are alive and healthy. Civil service is fat with one ethnic group. Deserving students from supplementary are ruthlessly denied places in local universities by virtue of their racial.

Against this background, the performance of Titus makes a mockery of all ethnic problems Malaysia encounters. What is taught in their classroom corresponded truth lived. Rather than attempting to initiate an argument on the problems we have, we force students to feel they need to embrace the other person and the knives are still sticking with our backs. Actual understanding comes only through planning to solve our strength issues.