UiTM Students Must Know Knowledge Management
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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak who visited Kolej Perindu at the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) campus here today advised the students to build their capacity for managing the knowledge they have acquired.
“In your mind you should know how to manage knowledge, and to do that you must have discipline and the ability to synthesise information…what to believe and what to reject,” he said to a group of over 30 UiTM students who had the opportunity to exchange views over drinks with him at the college cafeteria.
Also in the discussion which went on for 30 minutes were Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin and his deputy Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, and UiTM vice-chancellor Tan Sri Prof Dr Ibrahim Abu Shah.
Najib said students must have the mind to manage knowledge they had acquired in order to achieve success even in very challenging times.
He said the inability to manage knowledge could also create discord among the people as they were now bombarded with all kinds of information due to the development in communication technology such as the Internet.
Hence, he said, the role of students was important in strengthening unity among the people and in achieving the 1Malaysia concept.
Najib said the majority of UiTM students who were mostly Muslims should mould themselves into good Muslims as they would also become good citizens and give the correct picture of Islam to the non-Muslim community.
He said this could be a religious mission for the students, apart from the government carrying out efforts in Islamic advancement such as through the training and recruitment of religious teachers, building of mosques and surau, and setting up of the Pilgrims Management and Fund Board (Tabung Haji).
He also advised the students not to gamble their future and be taken in by the opposition’s tactics as the Barisan Nasional (BN) government since its formation, had emphasised education and that UiTM was one of its biggest assets in this field.
Najib said education had all along been the BN government’s prime agenda, as “education is the most effective agent for society’s socio-economic change”.
When Najib asked the group of students their biggest satisfaction as UiTM students, they mentioned world-class facilities, use of English in learning, lecturers of calibre, good R&D (research and development) and low fees.
He said that was the privilege — quality education at reasonable price — provided by the government.
Asked whether the government was doing the right thing, the students who mostly spoke in English and appeared relaxed and confident, said yes.
Najib said the BN did not make empty promises and what the students enjoyed at UiTM was a reality so that they could pursue their studies for a bright future; a better life than what their parents had as most of them were not from well-to-do families.
Some of the students asked the prime minister when UiTM would have its own hospital for practical training as they are now doing it at the Sungai Buloh hospital, and Najib replied that the government had no allocation yet for a UiTM hospital.
He was also asked on the use of blogs and websites on the Internet by the opposition in their election campaign which the students said gave the opposition the edge in the last general election.
Najib admitted that this was a contributing factor to BN’s loss of five states but the people’s thinking had changed and they were more critical of the opposition now.
He also said that although BN’s struggle had been unjustly equated to the deviant teachings of Ayah Pin, Chin Peng’s communism or the socialist ideology by PAS’ spiritual leader Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat, the truth was that BN had done much more for Islam through the provision of religious education and training, and the setting up of many Islamic instruments and institutions.
He said PAS on the other hand, was inclined to using Islamic symbols like wearing the jubah (robe) and sporting a goatee to show that they were more Islamic than Umno.
“Islam does not necessarily be portrayed externally, but should be entrenched in the heart and soul of every Muslim. The Chinese Muslims in China, for instance, perform their daily prayers in mosques whose architectural design resembles a pagoda,” he said.
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