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Computing Students Selected to MMSA 2020 Program

Bachelor of Science (Honours) Information Systems (Business Analytics) students, Chan Wei Chee, Chan Wei Wei…

No Fees, No Teachers and No Classrooms: Sunway Launches 42KL, Malaysia’s First Such Coding School

42 is the first in the world to offer peer-to-peer learning and is completely merit-based. The only requirement is that students must be above 18 years old. This ground-breaking coding school has a disruptive educational model as it has no tuition fees, no teachers, and no traditional classrooms.…

It is Time for Business Schools to Practise What They Preach

The world of higher education is changing. Several trends are emerging and converging that will have an impact on the future of business education. One trend of shifting the power from higher education providers to the student means that students have an increasing expectation for mass…

Housing Affordability A Concern for M40 and B40 Groups

Residential property prices in Malaysia have been rising in recent years. A report published by the National Property Information Centre (NAPIC) indicated that the residential price index was at an all-time high in 2017 and is expected to continue to rise.

How To Drag Ourselves Into The 21st Century

When I was a young lad working as a management trainee, I came across a department called Organisation and Methods (O…

Education with Values

I have been working at Sunway University for over three years. I came to help build pro¬vision in the arts, specifically, as head of a department with courses in film, music and theatre. Since then, that department has grown from a handful of students to nearly 300 and I have taken up a new role as…

Creativity - The Secret of Business Success

Universities now turn out thousands of graduates every year who yearn to build successful careers for themselves. Some aspire to be successful entrepreneurs building their own enterprises, which is very much to be applauded as necessary for economic growth. But no matter how much training and…

What If Customers Are Not Always Right?

What disgruntled customers want are reasonable answers to their concerns. With the growth in e-Feedback platforms (e.g. Google review, Facebook Business Review, TripAdvisor and Booking.com) and e-Feedback apps (Mopinion, Apptentive, AppStark and Doorbell), customer relationship management should be…

Ways to Improve Innovation Success Rates in Universities

March 12, 2019 marked my first anniversary of working at a university. Firmly planted in a “grow fast or die slow” commercial world, I had never considered a university as a possible workplace. While pursuing my passion for thinking ahead and putting trend-setting ideas into action, I was dubious…

Sustainability in the Age of Disruption

In a recent interview, James Manyika from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) asked Thomas L Friedman, the New York Times journalist and writer, about climate change. In a candid yet gutsy manner, Friedman admitted that he could do nothing about climate change but to try to “manage the unavoidable…

Resetting The Accountancy Profession In Malaysia

There is general acknowledgement that the accountancy profession, if appropriately structured, supported and regulated, contributes significantly to a sound, sustainable and growing economy. The accountancy profession is poised to play an instrumental role in nation building. The World Bank in its…

Racism and Lessons from George Floyd

Something more sinister than COVID-19 is hiding unnoticed. For the past five months, the world has witnessed and experienced in awe and fear the unfolding of COVID-19 from one epicentre to another—from Asia to Europe to North America and now South America. To date, the coronavirus has infected…