Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts

Ranking Sektor Akademik

Friday, June 21, 2024

Kita memang suka dengan nombor terutamanya nombor 1, top 3, top 5, top 10, dan seterusnya. Dari kecil hinggalah ke liang lahat, tetap dengan ranking. Siapa menang, siapa atas sekali, siapa mati dulu menjadi antara perkara yang ingin kita ketahui.

Dan terbaru, ranking universiti dipersoal kerana universiti lebih gemar mengejar ranking dari menghasilkan graduan yang diperlukan industri.



Sebelum itu, kita juga melihat kedudukan sekolah dan mula mempersoalkan sekolah mana yang baik dan mana yang tidak. Menjadikan ada kasta di kalangan sekolah sendiri serta membandingkan sekolah biasa, sekolah berasrama penuh, dan sebagainya. Setelah itu, dengan adanya jabatan netizen negara, mulalah perang kutuk mengutuk mengenai sekolah, riak dan bangga pasal sekolah, serta menunjuk-nunjuk fasiliti kelas atasan sekolah yang menjadikannya sekolah terbaik.

Ini pula pendapat saya mengenai perkara ini.

Ranking sekolah terbaik berdasarkan gred purata adalah tidak adil jika hanya mengambil kira faktor kejayaan peperiksaan. Malah, cara ia dibandingkan dan diletakkan dalam kedudukan juga tidak menggunakan metod dan proses yang adil. 

Adilkah sekolah biasa dibandingkan dengan sekolah berprestasi tinggi? 

Adilkah jika sekolah biasa dibandingkan dengan sekolah berasrama penuh?

Adil atau tidak sekolah di bandar dibandingkan dengan sekolah di kampung?

Adakah adil sekolah yang penuh dengan fasiliti baik dibandingkan dengan sekolah yang hanya ada padang dikongsi pelbagai acara?

Adilkah sekolah yang muridnya belajar sains dibandingkan dengan sekolah yang belajar sastera?

Adilkah sekolah yang berlandaskan integrasi sains islam dibandingkan dengan sekolah yang pure sains sahaja?

Jika kita hendak buat ranking sekolah, biarlah adil. SMKA dibandingkan dengan SMKA yang lain. SMK dibandingkan dengan SMK yang lain. SBP dibandingkan dengan SBP. Aliran sains dibandingkan dengan aliran sains sahaja. Barulah kita nampak adil dan kedudukan sekolah yang sebenar.

Dalam pada itu, saya juga berharap agar universiti dan pihak yang memberikan biasiswa dan pinjaman pendidikan tidak hanya melihat pada ranking sekolah untuk memilih pelajar. Lihatlah juga pada mereka yang benar memerlukan. 



Pesan saya, jangan asyik nak kejar ranking dan tengok ranking hingga lupa kepada asas kewajipan sebenar, iaitu menggilap mereka demi masa depan negara yang cemerlang.

Lesson Learn (Ibrah) Covid-19

Sunday, April 5, 2020


Novel Coronavirus 2019 or simply known as COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019) started in Wuhan, China before spreading to the rest of the world since the end of December 2019. What started as normal flu become pandemic after one after another super-power country like the US, France, Italy, and the UK got affected by the disease. As of this article is written, there are approximately 180 countries affected with the total patient has exponentially grown to more than 1 million and total death of more than 60k (as of 5th March 2020). The number is expected to big more and worst than the previous pandemics such as H1N1, MERS-COV, and Ebola.




What is the lesson learn (Ibrah) of this scariest pandemic in the era of IoT and IR 4.0?
  1. You can have the best infrastructures, top healthcare system, superb financial scheme, but if you take it for granted, it is useless. You can see how Italy, Spain, and US are having a tough time combating the virus. And these are countries are superpower with the best military equipment and healthcare.
  2. Earth is taking time to recover and this is one of the good news we heard so far. Here and there we heard that the ozone layer was improved bit by bit.
  3. We see people start to learn how to survive like poor people. Eat when it is necessary and eat only the necessary food.
  4. We start learning the economy and financial system and calculating our expenses and projecting our needs in the future. Many start restructuring their income and debt.
  5. The Internet has become one of the needed items in Maslow’s hierarchy. People are talking about online learning, work from home, work from anywhere, online tv and streaming, etc. Slow internet has become major concern and critical issue to the service providers, of which before this was taken for granted. The teacher starts to learn and applying online teaching using the various tools, of which previously ignore and not many university implemented it. Online shopping and the online market is a boom. Foodservice delivery become critical service providers.
  6. We start to appreciate mosque, masjid, church, temple, etc. People start talking about missing going to the place. When they have work, they are too busy to attend and now they remember about it.
  7. People start to clean their hands and faces. Practice hygiene protection. Follow the Muslim ways of washing their asses when toilet paper is missing.
  8. People start wearing a mask, when previously they condemn Muslim women for covering every section of their body except eyes. They started to appreciate the practice.
  9. Many Muslims now having more time to read the Quran and Solat.
  10. The family now is having more bonding time.
  11. We work like there is no tomorrow, but now we get to rest as there is no job for us.
  12. We can see whom are the rich people that have concern over the poor and who are the rich people that only concern themselves. 
  13. We can see which businesses we need to support and which to forget.
  14. We can see the true color of people.
  15. We start to appreciate our front liners; the doctors, police, army, firefighter, cleaner, service workers and many more.
  16. We should have know which political parties or person that we can trust or put faith in, and who are real jokers.
  17. We learn to be patient and cool and stay calm. Adult start learning to stay in Q (when we lined up to go into grocery) and follow the rules.
  18. Many men learn to shop and buy food, learn to clean shirt and house, and learn to be responsible, son, husband, and father.
  19. Many women now realize the importance of having the right men in their house.
  20. Many parents now realize how their kids are in school and their true color when doing online learning.

There is always a blessing in disguise in everything that happens to us. Allah does not make it happen if there is nothing we can learn (or someone can learn from it). Everything happens for a reason. Either we realize, ignore or simply can’t see it.

So Stay Calm .. Stay Cool .. Fill the time with good things as you will never know when you will have the opportunity again.

May ALLAH save us all and grant us Jannah. InsyaAllah.

Woe to the unjust!

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

After a while the web was left out by us, I'm back to write. This time is about the unjust and discriminatory act of many of us. Beware, as Allah S.W.T expressly stated in the Quran,

Allah swt said,
وَلَا تَحۡسَبَنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَٰفِلًا عَمَّا يَعۡمَلُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَۚ إِنَّمَا يُؤَخِّرُهُمۡ لِيَوۡمٖ تَشۡخَصُ فِيهِ ٱلۡأَبۡصَٰرُ
“And do not think that Allah is ignorant of what the unrighteous do. Verily, Allah will delay them until the day when their eyes are opened.” (QS.Ibrahim:42)

ٱلۡيَوۡمَ تُجۡزَىٰ كُلُّ نَفۡسِۭ بِمَا كَسَبَتۡۚ لَا ظُلۡمَ ٱلۡيَوۡمَۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَرِيعُ ٱلۡحِسَابِ
“Today every soul is rewarded according to what it has done. No one was harmed today. Indeed, Allah is very quick in His calculations.” (QS.Ghafir:17) 

But, there are still people, especially muslim whom choose to do unjust and telling lies. And Allah S.W.T has clearly said that these people will definitely be punished.

From Abu Hurairah RA, the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: "Whoever commits (committing) cruelty to his brother, let him free himself from that (forgiveness) because indeed (on the Day of Judgment) the dinar and dirham will not avail anything, before his kindness was taken for his brother (to compensate for the injustice done). If he has no good, then his brother's evil will be taken away and thrown upon him. ”(Hadith of al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 6534)
Matan hadith :

عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ مَنْ كَانَتْ عِنْدَهُ مَظْلِمَةٌ لِأَخِيهِ فَلْيَتَحَلَّلْهُ مِنْهَا فَإِنَّهُ لَيْسَ ثَمَّ دِينَارٌ وَلَا دِرْهَمٌ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ يُؤْخَذَ لِأَخِيهِ مِنْ حَسَنَاتِهِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ حَسَنَاتٌ أُخِذَ مِنْ سَيِّئَاتِ أَخِيهِ فَطُرِحَتْ عَلَيْهِ.
]صحيح البخاري , كتاب المظالم , باب من كانت له مظلمة عند الرجل فحللها له هل يبين مظلمته , حديث رقم 6534

Allah has warned to those being unjust, liar, and slandering (being hypocritical)
From Abu Sa'id radhiyallahu 'anhu he said, Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said
إِنَّ أَحَبَّ النَّاسِ إِلَى اللَّهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَأَدْنَاهُمْ مِنْهُ مَجْلِسًا إِمَامٌ عَادِلٌ وَأَبْغَضَ النَّاسِ
إِلَى اللَّهِ وَأَبْعَدَهُمْ مِنْهُ مَجْلِسًا إِمَامٌ جَائِرٌ
“Sesungguhnya manusia yang paling dicintai oleh Allah pada hari kiamat dan paling dekat kedudukannya di sisi Allah adalah seorang pemimpin yang adil. Sedangkan orang yang paling dibenci oleh Allah dan paling jauh kedudukannya dari Allah adalah seorang pemimpin yang zalim.” (HR. Tirmidzi)
(from: https://www.kiblat.net/2016/04/13/ancaman-nabi-saw-terhadap-pemimpin-zalim-dan-para-pendukungnya/)

Rasulullah SAW said:

وَاتَّقِ دَعْوَةَ الْمَظْلُوْمِ فَإِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بَيْنَهَا وَبَيْنَ اللَّهِ حِجَابٌ

“Waspadailah doa orang yang terzalimi, karena tidak ada suatu penghalang pun antara ia dan Allah.” (HR Bukhari).
(from https://www.kiblat.net/2016/08/31/kedzaliman-yang-langsung-mendapatkan-balasan-di-dunia/)

"... And whosoever among you doeth wrong, We will find in him a great punishment" (Al-Furqan: 19).





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