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Pendidikan percuma? Top US universities put their reputation online

This autumn more than a million students are going to take part in an experiment that could re-invent the landscape of higher education. Some of the biggest powerhouses in US higher education are offering online courses - testing how their expertise and scholarship can be brought to a global audience. Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have formed a $60m (£38m) alliance to launch edX, a platform to deliver courses online - with the modest ambition of "revolutionising education around the world". Sounding like a piece of secret military hardware, edX will provide online interactive courses which can be studied by anyone, anywhere, with no admission requirements and, at least at present, without charge. With roots in Silicon Valley, Stanford academics have set up another online platform, Coursera, which will provide courses from Stanford and Princeton and other leading US institutions. The first president of edX is Anant Agarwal, director of MIT'

Semua universiti terbaik dunia ada Jabatan Falsafah

PENSYARAH Kanan Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), Prof. Dr. Ahmad Murad Merican pernah menyentuh secara terperinci menerusi tulisannya dalam sebuah akhbar 4 Oktober lalu tentang bagaimana universiti-universiti terkemuka dunia membentuk portfolio sehingga tersenarai dalam ranking terbaik dunia. Tulisan tersebut menyebut jika kita masih berhasrat menjadi universiti global, kita perlu belajar satu perkara daripada universiti terbaik dunia iaitu mempunyai Jabatan Falsafah yang mantap dan mampu melahirkan lebih ramai cendekiawan. Beliau turut memberi pandangan universiti kita hari ini mengabaikan bidang tersebut sedangkan bidang tersebutlah yang menjadi tunjang kepada cabang-cabang ilmu lain. Pandangan tersebut juga ada kaitannya dengan pengumuman Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin pada Perhimpunan Umno baru-baru ini yang menetapkan subjek Sejarah sebagai subjek wajib lulus Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) bermula 2014 dalam usaha melahirkan graduan berkualiti sekali