how exactly did u get the idea that an executive MBA is meant for working professionals while the 'normal' MBA is meant for fulltime students?

To qualify for admission into a MBA program, one needs to be a working professional anyways, and I've yet to see a 'normal' MBA program that enforces those who's admitted into it to do it full time.

If you're to look at the history of UPM, you'll find that its one of the most notorious public universities in Malaysia when it comes to abuse of power by the authorities.

The problem with the public universities in Malaysia is not because nobody wants to improve them, but mainly because of politics (both external at the national level, and also internal within the universities itself). Furthermore there's the AKU Janji document that has to be signed by all students and staffed, of which the wording is so biased that in signing that, the person had virtually signed away their rights for legal representation while giving the university the right to put down any sort of accusations on the person.

I would suggest that you go and dig up Mahathir's comments in regards to the Japanese, both his recent comparisons in regards to the ability of the Japanese to take personal responsibility for any sort of mess ups, as well as his far earlier words in regards to the professionalism, integrity and work habits of the Japanese (part of the Look East policy in the 1980s).

Such is what that had built Japan into what it is today, and not blind nationalism.

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Added on April 1, 2008, 12:43 amActually no. To be fair to Mahathir, he had never stressed at all on the blind nationalism as part of Japan's strong points. I suggest that you go and examine what the look east policy is actually about.

However to be honest as well, the look east policy is not without its flaws, in the sense that attempting to emulate Japan's strong points is just not practical due to both the social and political climate in Malaysia.

This post has been edited by fyire: Apr 1 2008, 12:43 AM

Fact is, in Malaysia, the so called 'minorities' actually forms up to 40% of the population. That's not such a small minority as well. With that in mind, unless such issues are resolved, Malaysia will simply not get anywhere at all, except perhaps contributing to the growth of other countries (as seen by the brain drain issue faced for the last few decades).

And so such are part of the reasons why the local universities in Malaysia are in such a bad state, as well as the primary reason why there's so much demand (and thus business) for foreign universities to set up local campuses in Malaysia.