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  • Two Former Full-Time Madrasah Students Enrolled Into NUS Medical School

    Two Former Full-Time Madrasah Students Enrolled Into NUS Medical School

    TWO former madrasah students have become the first to be offered places in a medical school here. Ms Amalina Ridzuan and Mr Ahmad Abdurrahman, who each spent the full 10 years in Islamic religious schools, have made the cut to enter the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) highly competitive Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. There are six full-time madrasahs here. In recent years, they have placed more emphasis on raising academic standards by helping students balance the demands of the religious and secular curricula. The duo also join the ranks of a select number of students who took the polytechnic route to be accepted into medicine. Last year, for instance, only 10 or so polytechnic graduates were offered places at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

    Ms Amalina, 22, who has four siblings aged 12 to 20, grew up playing doctor with them. While in secondary school, a newspaper article about a cancer patient struck her. “I really didn’t want to see (others) having to go through the same pain. That’s why I felt compelled to do something… to do my part to alleviate their pain,” she said. But the former student of Madrasah Al-Ma’arif Al-Islamiah in Geylang took longer than expected to make it to medical school. After graduating from the madrasah, she entered Serangoon Junior College but did not do well.

    “I considered doing a private degree, but I was very interested in medicine and didn’t want to spend the rest of my life doing something I didn’t like, or any other degree,” said Ms Amalina, whose 45-year-old father is a material handler and 44-year-old mother, a management support officer. So she enrolled in a biomedical science course at Temasek Polytechnic and worked hard. She will graduate on Wednesday with a grade point average of 3.98 out of 4. NUS does not comment on individuals accepted into its medical school, but has said it looks for attributes such as compassion, empathy and the ability to relate to people from all walks of life.

    Mr Ahmad will be graduating from Singapore Polytechnic on Thursday. The 19-year-old, formerly from Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah, also studied biomedical science in polytechnic. His 46-year-old mother, an allied educator in a primary school, and 54-year-old father, who is self-employed in the vehicle business, enrolled all four of their children in madrasahs so that they would have a solid foundation in religious knowledge. Mr Ahmad said: “Being in a madrasah taught me time management and how to study smart, because we had so many subjects.”

    At one point, he was taking 14 subjects, including mathematics, history and others on Islamic law and etiquette. His polytechnic course and internships have given him a glimpse of his career ahead. One incident that struck him during a stint at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital was when a doctor asked him to comfort a patient during a painful procedure. “I wasn’t sure what to do, so I just held her hand and looked into her eyes. Somehow, that small gesture helped.”

     

    Source: The Straits Times

  • 3 Masjid, Madrasah Aljunied Gabung Tenaga Bawa Keceriaan Sempena Tahun Baru Cina

    3 Masjid, Madrasah Aljunied Gabung Tenaga Bawa Keceriaan Sempena Tahun Baru Cina

    Masjid-masjid di negara ini tidak ketinggalan turut serta dalam perayaan Tahun Baru Cina.

    Tiga masjid memasang sepanduk berwarna-warni dengan ucapan Selamat Tahun Baru Cina.

    Salah satunya, Masjid An-Nahdhah di Bishan yang bergabung tenaga dengan sebuah pusat prasekolah berdekatan mengadakan persembahan.

    Di Marsiling, Masjid An-Nur memberi buah-buah limau kepada beberapa rumah tumpangan warga emas di kawasan itu.

    Sekumpulan pelajar Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah pula mengunjungi Sekolah Tinggi Perempuan Nanyang di mana mereka menyertai sesi menulis kaligrafi Cina serta menikmati konsert Tahun Baru Cina.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Walid J. Abdullah: Stop Looking At Madrasahs And Students As Second-Class

    Walid J. Abdullah: Stop Looking At Madrasahs And Students As Second-Class

    It is wonderful indeed to see madrasah students – such as Nur Masyitah Borhan and Murshidah Albakri – performing so well in their O-Levels. Lest we forget, for many of these madrasah students, their O-levels are not their bread-and-butter, and we must not judge them by how well they do in it. Hence, for those who do brilliantly despite the fact that they have many other subjects to study for (yes, they do not stop reading other subjects just because it is O-level year), it is a phenomenal feat.

    Unfortunately, I have met many people – even Muslims – who do not really know too much about the madrasahs, but somehow ‘know’ enough (usually from their ‘own experience’, which actually involves encountering one or two madrasah students) to believe that madrasah students/graduates are somehow less able than students/graduates of national schools. It is almost like modern-day orientalism.

    From my own limited experience, I believe madrasah students are just like students of other schools: on average all of them are just as smart. Then you have some hardworking ones, and some less-hardworking ones. Some are naturally more gifted, others, less so. There is nothing ‘special’ or ‘inferior’ about their abilities.

    Two things, however, I believe are different:

    1) The workload of these students far outweigh their national schools counterparts, so naturally, the amount of work required is more as well.

    2) On average, these students are far more well-behaved, and well-mannered. I can understand why many choose to dedicate their entire lives serving the madrasahs, because the students – more often than not – make it worth the sacrifices.

    I am not at all saying that the madrasah system is perfect; no system is, after all. I am sure many could list some problems the madrasahs face, just as many could do the same for national schools. All i am saying is that we should always consider and reconsider our preconceived notions and possible biases before making sweeping statements about things that many consider integral to their communities, such as the madrasahs.

     

    Source: Walid J.Abdullah

  • $35,000 Anugerah Bagi Pelajar Cemerlang Aljunied

    $35,000 Anugerah Bagi Pelajar Cemerlang Aljunied

    Kegigihan dan kecemerlangan beliau dalam mata pelajaran terserlah apabila Encik Hassanuddin Razali dianugerahkan Biasiswa Syed Abdul Rahman Aljunied yang pertama di Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah, semalam.

    Pelajar berusia 19 tahun itu akan menerima $10,000 setiap tahun selama empat tahun bagi melanjutkan pelajarannya di fakulti syariah di Al-Azhar, Mesir, pada Ogos nanti.

    Encik Hassanuddin bukan sahaja pelajar cemerlang malah beliau juga pelajar contoh bagi rakan yang lain.

    Ini terbukti selepas beliau mendapat lapan agregat di peperiksaan GCE peringkat ‘O’ dan pernah memenangi anugerah Mendaki dan peraduan Matematik antarabangsa yang dianjurkan oleh Universiti Nebraska dan Persatuan Matematik Amerika.

    Beliau menyifatkan kejayaan beliau hasil sokongan semua yang telah membantunya.

    “Pengorbanan guru-guru, ibu bapa dan rakan saya adalah faktor utama bagi kejayaan yang telah saya alami ini.

    “Saya berharap saya dapat berkhidmat kembali kepada madrasah dan masyarakat di Singapurai,” katanya yang juga pernah menjadi penolong ketua pengawas di madrasah itu.

    Encik Hassanuddin juga merancang melanjutkan pelajarannya sejauh mungkin dan ingin menjadi seorang yang berjasa kepada masyarakat.

    Empat biasiswa dan anugerah lebih $35,000 telah dianugerahkan kepada 14 pelajar bagi memburu kecemerlangan dalam pelajaran mereka masing-masing.

    Anugerah yang julung-julung kali dianugerahkan di Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah itu nerangkumi empat bidang khusus iaitu Anugerah Cemerlang BOG Madrasah Aljunied, Biasiswa Syed Abdul Rahman Aljunied, Biasiswa Sastera dan Bahasa Arab dan Anugerah Perkhidmatan dan Kepimpinan.

    Bagi biasiswa, penerima akan menerima antara $5,000 hingga $10,000 setahun selama empat tahun dan ia juga tiada ikatan.

    Bagi anugerah pula, setiap penerima boleh menerima sehingga $1,760.

    Kesemua 14 pelajar itu menerima biasiswa dan anugerah itu daripada Mufti Dr Mohamed Fatris Bakaram di madrasah itu semalam.

    Ketua Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah, Ustaz Mahmoud Mathlub Sidek, amat berterima kasih kepada semua pihak yang telah merealisasikan usaha biasiswa ini.

    “Pihak madrasah merakamkan rasa syukur dan terima kasih kepada semua pihak atas sokongan mereka menjayakan usaha biasiswa Syed Abdul Rahman ini, terutama sekali Majlis Ugama Islam (Muis), ibu bapa, para penderma, guru-guru dan jawatankuasa pentadbir madrasah Singapura” ujar beliau.

    Beliau juga inginkan anak-anak muda, bukan sahaja di madrasah beliau bahkan di mana-mana, berusaha sejauh mungkin dan berbakti kepada masyarakat.

    “Saya inginkan anak-anak ini belajar setinggi langit dan mendapatkan pendidikan sejauh mana mereka mampu agar mereka dapat menyumbang bakti sebagai manusia yang berjasa bukan sahaja untuk masyarakat mereka bahkan untuk negara, bangsa dan juga di peringkat antarabangsa,” katanya.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

  • Dari Madrasah Ke Poly, Kini Ke NUS Ikuti Pengajian Perubatan

    Dari Madrasah Ke Poly, Kini Ke NUS Ikuti Pengajian Perubatan

    Dua lulusan madrasah yang memilih laluan politeknik mencipta sejarah apabila ditawarkan tempat di Sekolah Perubatan Yong Loo Lin, Universiti Nasional Singapura (NUS) baru-baru ini.

    Encik Ahmad Abdurrahman Hanifah Marican, 20 tahun, lulusan Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah, ialah pelajar cemerlang kursus Diploma Sains Bioperubatan daripada Politeknik Singapura.

    Lulusan Politeknik Temasek, Cik Amalina Ridzuan, 22 tahun, pula bekas pelajar Madrasah Al-Maarif Al-Islamiah yang meraih Pingat Emas Sysmex Asia Pacific bagi kursus Diploma Sains Bioperubatan.

    Tahun lalu, lulusan sains bioperubatan Politeknik Republic, Cik Noor Ahmed Alkaff, merupakan pelajar politeknik Melayu pertama diterima masuk ke Fakulti Perubatan NUS.

    Mengulas pencapaian ini, Cik Noor berkata: “Saya teruja kerana kejayaan mereka menunjukkan bahawa latar belakang pengajian bukan hambatan asal kita bermotivasi berusaha.”

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg