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  • Akhirnya Diterima Fakulti Perubatan NUS Setelah Cuba Tiga Kali

    Akhirnya Diterima Fakulti Perubatan NUS Setelah Cuba Tiga Kali

    Bukan sekali tetapi dua kali permohonan Encik Muhammad Mirza Syafiq Rahmad untuk memasuki sekolah perubatan di universiti setempat ditolak.

    Namun, tidak sesekali terlintas dalam fikiran bekas pelajar Maktab Rendah Nanyang (NYJC) itu mahu melupakan impian menjadi doktor yang membara dalam dirinya sejak lapan tahun lalu.

    Akhirnya berkat azam kuat itu, yang termasuk usaha cuba lebih memahami tugas seorang doktor, Encik Mirza, 21 tahun, diterima Sekolah Perubatan Yong Loo Lin Universiti Nasional Singapura (NUS) tahun ini setelah tiga kali mencuba.

    Beliau akan memulakan pengajian lima tahun itu Ogos ini.

    Selain NUS, beliau juga memohon untuk mempelajari bidang perubatan di lima lagi universiti luar negara, termasuk di Britain dan Australia – namun permohonannya turut ditolak.

    Impian tunggal menjadi doktor berputik dalam hati Encik Mirza apabila beliau melangkah ke sekolah menengah, setelah melihat neneknya bertarung nyawa di Unit Rawatan Rapi (ICU).

    Selepas mendapat keputusan peperiksaan GCE peringkat ‘A’ dua tahun lalu, beliau memohon ke sekolah perubatan NUS dan Universiti Teknologi Nanyang (NTU). Beliau dipanggil bagi temu duga oleh kededua universiti tetapi ditolak.

    Namun, anak muda itu tidak sekadar goyang kaki sementara menunggu permohonannya diterima.

    Semasa menjalani Perkhidmatan Negara (NS) bersama Pasukan Pertahanan Awam Singapura (SCDF), Encik Muhammad Mirza memohon ditugaskan sebagai medik ambulans agar dapat lebih memahami tanggungjawab pegawai perubatan dalam situasi kecemasan.

    Beliau turut meluangkan beberapa hari bersama pakar jantung di Hospital Raffles, Dr Abdul Razakjr Omar, dan Dr Zuraimi Mohamed Dahlan di kliniknya, Banyan Clinic, untuk lebih memahami tugas dan peranan seorang doktor.

    Selain itu, beliau dan beberapa kawan memulakan projek memantau kesihatan warga emas di Ang Mo Kio yang dipanggil Our Health, Our Elderly (Kesihatan Kita, Warga Tua Kita).

    “Saya melakukan itu semua setelah semua permohonan saya memasuki sekolah perubatan ditolak kerana saya mahu meyakinkan diri saya bahawa menjadi doktor benar-benar sesuatu yang ingin saya lakukan,” kata anak pasangan ejen hartanah dan kakitangan sokongan perkhidmatan di sebuah hospital itu.

    Mac lalu, beliau sekali lagi memohon kepada NUS – dan menerima berita gembira itu awal bulan ini. NUS sebelum ini menyatakan dalam menerima permohonan memasuki sekolah perubatannya, ia turut menilai ciri-ciri seperti keihsanan, empati dan kebolehan berhubung dengan orang ramai daripada pelbagai latar belakang.

    Kali ini, beliau turut diterima Universiti Perubatan Antarabangsa di Malaysia dan sebuah sekolah perubatan di Ireland.

    “Pengalaman yang saya raih semasa menunggu diterima membuat saya yakin saya boleh membuat perubahan pada kehidupan pesakit. Ia membawa saya lebih dekat kepada dunia perubatan,” kata Encik Mirza.

     

    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

  • NUS 24th Best University Globally, 2nd Best In Asia

    NUS 24th Best University Globally, 2nd Best In Asia

    National University of Singapore (NUS) has slipped three positions to be No. 24 in the latest Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings.

    But it regained its place as Asia’s second best university, after the University of Tokyo, in the latest ranking released this morning.

    Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which fell from the 71st to 80th band in 2013 to the 91st to 100th band last year, stayed in the same placing. Only the top 50 schools are given a specific rank.

    The London-based magazine, which based its ranking on the opinions of 10,500 senior academics, described NUS’ changed position as a “minor slip that should not be cause for too much concern”.

    Mr Phil Baty, editor of the rankings, noted that NUS has become No. 2 in Asia, up from No. 3 last year, and remains one of the top 25 most prestigious universities in the world.

    “Given that there are around 20,000 higher education institutions in the world, this is an outstanding achievement,” he said, adding that competition at the top is very intense.

    “Universities have to run fast just to stand still,” he said.

    Singapore’s two leading institutions are “well and truly embedded among the world’s best global university brands”, said Mr Baty.

    In response to the ranking, NUS provost Tan Eng Chye said: “We are heartened that NUS remains among the world’s top 25 universities and has improved its placing as second in Asia.”

    He said it was a strong endorsement of NUS’ focus in four key areas – nurturing talent, educational innovation, building research peaks and developing strategic partnerships.

    In response to its unchanged banding, an NTU spokesman said: “Reputation figures are the most subjective part of rankings, but in the more objective performance measurements such as citations, NTU is on an upward trend.”

    NTU saw its ranking drop last year. The Times Higher Education magazine said then that the university’s decision in 2013 to deny journalism professor Cherian George tenure could have hurt its standing with academics abroad.

    Overall this year, American universities continue to dominate, taking 26 of the top 50 places, with Harvard University keeping its top spot.

    Britain has the second most number of universities in the top 100. Cambridge University moved into second place, up from fourth last year, followed by Oxford University, in third.

    Asia’s top performer, the University of Tokyo, was 12th. Kyoto University fell from 19th to 27th place, to be ranked below NUS.

    The reputation rankings have been criticised by some for being subjective, as they are based purely on the opinions of academics.

    The poll asks academics to nominate no more than 10 of the best institutions in their narrow field of expertise, based on their experience and knowledge.

    Mr Baty agreed the ranking is based on “purely subjective judgment”, but added: “It is the expert subjective judgment of those who know most about excellent teaching and research – leading academics from all around the world. And their opinion matters deeply.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Bird Thought Extinct Rediscovered In Myanmar

    Bird Thought Extinct Rediscovered In Myanmar

    Jerdon’s babbler, a bird thought to be extinct, has been rediscovered by a team of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Myanmar’s Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division and the National University of Singapore (NUS).

    The bird’s last confirmed sighting was in July 1941, near the Sittaung River close to a town called Myitkyo in the Bago region in Myanmar.

    The small brown bird – about the size of a house sparrow – was discovered on May 30 last year when the team led by WCS were surveying a site around an abandoned agricultural station that still contained some grassland habitat.

    Upon hearing the bird’s distinct call, the scientists played back a recording and were rewarded with the sighting of an adult Jerdon’s babbler. And over the next two days, the team saw more of the birds in the immediate vicinity and managed to obtain blood samples and photographs of them.

    The Jerdon’s babbler was once common to Myanmar’s vast grasslands that once covered flood plains around Yangon, and had only dwindled in numbers when agriculture and communities took over the grasslands.

    “This discovery not only proves that the species still exists in Myanmar but that the habitat can still be found as well,” said the director of WCS’s Regional Conservation Hub in Singapore, Mr Colin Poole.

    “Future work is needed to identify remaining pockets of natural grassland and develop systems for local communities to conserve and benefit from them.”

    With the rediscovery, it is now considered as one of the three subspecies found in the Indus, Bhramaputra, and Ayeyarwady River basins in South Asia. All three from the species show subtle differences and may yet prove to be distinctive species, the WCS said.

    NUS’s Department of Biological Sciences has taken the bird’s DNA samples to study if it should be considered a full species. If the test is positive, the species will be exclusive to Myanmar.

    This discovery is part of a larger study to understand the genetics of Myanmar bird species and determine the true level of bird diversity found in the country.

    Myanmar has more species of bird than any other country in mainland Southeast Asia, said WCS, and this number is likely to increase as our understanding of birds in this long isolated country continues to grow.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • Local Undergraduates Expect $4,000 As Starting Salary

    Local Undergraduates Expect $4,000 As Starting Salary

    According to a poll by STJobs, one in five local under/graduates expects no less than $4,000 as their starting pay.

    This contrasts sharply with the average starting pay for a bachelor’s degree (without honours) at $2,741, according to an earlier report last month.

    In view of realistic market payouts, some soon-to-be graduates seem to be asking for the sky.

    In February, STJobs.sg conducted a survey among close to 200 fresh graduates and undergraduates across a wide variety of academic disciplines in local tertiary institutes to find out what their salary expectations are.

    12 per cent of all respondents expected to receive less than $2,500 per month while 70 per cent of them expected to be paid up to $4,000 per month. The remaining 18 per cent felt they should receive more than $4,000 in remuneration.

    When asked why they felt they deserved their expected salary, half of the respondents said it was because they would be graduating from a recognised university.

    This reasoning seems to align with an earlier mypaper report whose survey findings – conducted and compiled by a HR consultant firm – found that one in five employers placed an average premium of $214 per month for local university graduates over those with degrees from overseas.

    Jerry Wee, Director of JRT Recruitment, agrees that employers tend to prefer fresh graduates from a recognised local university compared to private tertiary institutions, and would even be willing to pay them 10 to 15 per cent more.

    “The tightening of EPs for employment, coupled with rising costs and difficulty of hiring experienced qualified locals will put fresh grads in good stead to compete in the job market,” he said. However, he also cautioned that fresh grads need to be realistic in their expectation on remuneration.

    Yu Lan, 26, a student from Nanyang Technological University, is one of them who thinks that her starting salary should be at least $4,000 as she has “strong analysis skills and trouble-shooting ability”.

    On the other hand, 25-year-old Samuel Tan expects to be paid up to $4,000 in starting salary as other jobs he has applied to offer similar payouts. Other reasons cited include “I have the required abilities and good work ethics and experience from my part-time jobs”.

    Interestingly, 1 in 5 fresh graduates admitted that they had no clue about the usual starting pay of the job they are looking for and thought up a random figure for their expected remuneration.

    Most of them said they decided on their expected salary after consulting with friends who worked in a similar industry (46 per cent) or assumed that the industry or organisation they wanted to work in would be willing to pay them their expected salary (23 per cent).

    Among those surveyed, 79 per cent are from local universities, 11 per cent from local polytechnics and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), and the remaining from private institutions.

    The fresh grads also comprised of Singaporean and Singapore Permanent Residents (61 per cent) and foreigners (39 per cent), and 9 in 10 fresh grads are aged between 20 to 27 years old.

     

    Source: http://business.asiaone.com