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Dec 19, 2025
Finding Meaning in Education: The Journey of Entrepreneurship, Learning, and Creativity
The article reflects on entrepreneurship, education, and creativity as journeys rather than destinations. It talks about the “Myth of Arrival,” emphasizing meaning over material success. True learning lies in transformation and creativity emerges from inner experience as a means of self -expression. Success is redefined as continual growth and imaginative exploration.
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Dec 19, 2025
Finding Meaning in Education: The Journey of Entrepreneurship, Learning, and Creativity
The article reflects on entrepreneurship, education, and creativity as journeys rather than destinations. It talks about the “Myth of Arrival,” emphasizing meaning over material success. True learning lies in transformation and creativity emerges from inner experience as a means of self -expression. Success is redefined as continual growth and imaginative exploration.

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Dec 19, 2025
Repayable Grants: Models and Options Moving beyond handouts in industrial subsidies
Repayable grants offer a way to share risks between public and private while allowing the state to influence the direction of economic development.

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Dec 19, 2025
Repayable Grants: Models and Options Moving beyond handouts in industrial subsidies
Repayable grants offer a way to share risks between public and private while allowing the state to influence the direction of economic development.
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Dec 19, 2025
Di Sebalik Kepesatan dan Kebanjiran Pangsapuri Khidmat (Serviced Apartments)
Pembangunan pangsapuri khidmat atau serviced apartments terus rancak terutama di kawasan bandar seperti di Kuala Lumpur dan Lembah. Namun angka unit tidak terjual untuk jenis hartanah ini semakin membimbangkan. Realiti ini bukan sahaja menunjukkan ketidaksepadanan antara penawaran dan permintaan, tetapi juga persoalan perancangan tempatan untuk memenuhi keperluan masyrakat yang lebih besar. Artikel ini mengupas lanjut tetang aliran pasaran hartanah ini dan kebimbangan yang harus dititkberatkan dalam perancangan tempatan dan hartanah di Malaysia.
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Dec 19, 2025
Di Sebalik Kepesatan dan Kebanjiran Pangsapuri Khidmat (Serviced Apartments)
Pembangunan pangsapuri khidmat atau serviced apartments terus rancak terutama di kawasan bandar seperti di Kuala Lumpur dan Lembah. Namun angka unit tidak terjual untuk jenis hartanah ini semakin membimbangkan. Realiti ini bukan sahaja menunjukkan ketidaksepadanan antara penawaran dan permintaan, tetapi juga persoalan perancangan tempatan untuk memenuhi keperluan masyrakat yang lebih besar. Artikel ini mengupas lanjut tetang aliran pasaran hartanah ini dan kebimbangan yang harus dititkberatkan dalam perancangan tempatan dan hartanah di Malaysia.

Data Sets
Dec 18, 2025
Greater Kuala Lumpur Mobilities
A multi-year research project analyzing mobility patterns, public transport performance, and accessibility in Greater KL using large-scale administrative, geospatial and qualitative data.

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Dec 18, 2025
Greater Kuala Lumpur Mobilities
A multi-year research project analyzing mobility patterns, public transport performance, and accessibility in Greater KL using large-scale administrative, geospatial and qualitative data.
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Dec 17, 2025
Remarks on the purposes of a university education: Can theory be distinguished from practice?
Universities are under attack for being too theoretical in educating students which leave in turn; graduates who are apparently ill-prepared for ‘practice’ or the ‘real world’. This article is an attempt to explore and address basic assumptions of the university curriculum and the context in which universities (in the West) have developed since the middle of the nineteenth century which saw the expansion of what has come to be known as the ‘modern’ university. This is because the university, through time, has always had to absorb and accumulate changing aspirations-and perhaps also the presumptions- of successive generations and not surprisingly, it has also come to disappoint them. What this short piece hopes to do is to stimulate dialogue on an issue of public discourse that has directly and indirectly shape the way we think about university education in Malaysia.
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Dec 17, 2025
Remarks on the purposes of a university education: Can theory be distinguished from practice?
Universities are under attack for being too theoretical in educating students which leave in turn; graduates who are apparently ill-prepared for ‘practice’ or the ‘real world’. This article is an attempt to explore and address basic assumptions of the university curriculum and the context in which universities (in the West) have developed since the middle of the nineteenth century which saw the expansion of what has come to be known as the ‘modern’ university. This is because the university, through time, has always had to absorb and accumulate changing aspirations-and perhaps also the presumptions- of successive generations and not surprisingly, it has also come to disappoint them. What this short piece hopes to do is to stimulate dialogue on an issue of public discourse that has directly and indirectly shape the way we think about university education in Malaysia.
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Eleanor Wikstrom
Dr Roza Hazli Zakaria
Stephanie Hsu
Tan Hui Hui
Kelvin Ling Shyan Seng
Khairin Ilaina Mohamed Amin
Govind Nirav Rao
C. Hari S. Shankar
Afifah Ahmad
Elisabeth Chan Wen Yi
Nurrdinan Serena Amer Sharaffudin
Nurhanina Zaharin
Dr Amirah 'Aisha Badrul Hisham
Nur Hannani Abd Ghafar
Tehleel Nazir
Yee Suet Ee
Balqis Athirah Azhar
Shukri Mohamed Khairi
Nurul Farhana Abdul Shukor
Aidil Farhan Jasrie Arman Sany
Amirah Syazwani Ahmad Junaidi
Dinie Joshry Shaqeel Prakash
Ts Dr Amirah Aisha Badrul Hisham
Professor Joseph Eugene Stiglitz
K. Kuhaneetha Bai
Nadia Malyanah Azman
Siti Maisarah Zainurin
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Malini Elango
Aqeel Khaldun
Belinda Liew Ai Ching
Muhammad Khairulamri Muhammad
Nicholas Khaw
Nur Zulaikha Atiqah Mohd Zahril
Dr Diana Abdul Wahab
Dr Umawathy Techanamurthy
Bryan Yeoh Quan Jin
Wan Manan Wan Muda
Alyssa Chua Lee-Yen
Goh Ming Jun
Mohan Mahadeva
Yap Chun Hao
Syafa Sakinah Mustaffa
Ammar Hanania Hazli Izma
Dr Yunus Yasin
Dato’ Amirul Feisal Wan Zahir
Professor Emeritus Dr Tham Siew Yean
Datuk Hisham Hamdan
Khazanah Research Institute
Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop
Tan Mei Yi
Emir Izat Abdul Rashid
Lim Han Hsuen
Ida Madieha Abdul Ghani Azmi
Musaddiq Adam Muhtar
Nur Adilah Hamid
Chakrin Utit
Bach Nguyen Luong
Zainab Ali Ahmad
Kusairi Mohd Noh
Rokiah Alavi
Ibrahim Kabiru Maji
Illisriyani Ismail
Intan Nadia Jalil
Abdulla Ibragimov
Siti Nooraznie Abdul Rahim
Fatimah Mohamed Arshad
Dr Mohd Yusof Saari
Pierre Sauvé
Tan Theng Theng
Charissa Lee Yi Zhen
Yap Gin Bee
Tan Kar Man
Junaidi Mansor
Alia Muhammad Radzi
Yeu-Mynn Yeung
Prof. Wan Abdul Manan Wan Muda
Tan Zhai Gen
Umi Maisarah Kamis
Shukri Mohamed Khairi
Wong Ee Kin
Dr Wan Khatina Wan Nawawi
Maia Hollins-Kirk
Grace Loh Wan Chi
Keelea Shaye Linsuau Soh
Hui San Chiam
Goh Hao Yi
Daniel Filippi
Azlin Natasha Mohd Ghazali
Balqis Athirah Azhar
Dr Sarena Che Omar
Aqeel Khaldun (University of St Andrews)
Aidil Iman Aidid
Nurul Farhana Abdul Shukor
Nur Thuraya Sazali
Yugendran Rajaendran
Putera Daniel Hakeem
Siti Aiysyah Tumin
Laventhen Sivashanmugam
Nithiyananthan Muthusamy
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Sep 1, 2021
Back to School: Reopening Schools Safely


OP-ED
Sep 1, 2021
Back to School: Reopening Schools Safely
Health, Nutrition & Public Health
Yugendran Rajaendran
Sep 1, 2021
Sep 1, 2021
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Discussion Papers
Aug 24, 2021
Class Theories, Inequalities and the Case of Malaysia


OP-ED
Aug 24, 2021
Class Theories, Inequalities and the Case of Malaysia
Social Protection
Dr Christopher Choong Weng Wai
Aug 24, 2021
Aug 24, 2021
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Aug 3, 2021
Building Back Better from Unprecedented Changes in Education


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Aug 3, 2021
Building Back Better from Unprecedented Changes in Education
Education
Jarud Romadan Khalidi
Aug 3, 2021
Aug 3, 2021
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Jul 19, 2021
Tangani Risiko Buta Huruf dengan Program Intensif 3M

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Jul 19, 2021
Tangani Risiko Buta Huruf dengan Program Intensif 3M
Society
Hawati Abdul Hamid
Jul 19, 2021
Jul 19, 2021
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Jul 16, 2021
Ensuring Youth and Graduate Employability in an Uncertain Labour Market
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Jul 16, 2021
Ensuring Youth and Graduate Employability in an Uncertain Labour Market
Labour Trends & Youth Employment
Dr Mohd Amirul Rafiq Abu Rahim
Jul 16, 2021
Jul 16, 2021
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Discussion Papers
Jul 6, 2021
Wages for Housework: Reflections for Malaysia


OP-ED
Jul 6, 2021
Wages for Housework: Reflections for Malaysia
Care & Domestic Work
Dr Christopher Choong Weng Wai
Jul 6, 2021
Jul 6, 2021
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Jun 21, 2021
#NetworkedNation: Navigating Challenges, Realising Opportunities of Digital Transformation
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Jun 21, 2021
#NetworkedNation: Navigating Challenges, Realising Opportunities of Digital Transformation
AI, Automation & Work
Dr Rachel Gong
Jun 21, 2021
Jun 21, 2021
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Jun 15, 2021
Median Multiple Affordability: Use and considerations


OP-ED
Jun 15, 2021
Median Multiple Affordability: Use and considerations
Income, & Consumption
Puteri Marjan Megat Muzafar
Jun 15, 2021
Jun 15, 2021
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Jun 1, 2021
Global Inequality, Growth and Degrowth


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Jun 1, 2021
Global Inequality, Growth and Degrowth
Climate Change & Resilience
Economic Growth & Structure
Dr Christopher Choong Weng Wai
Jun 1, 2021
Jun 1, 2021
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One paper draws on qualitative interviews with commuters to show how public transport is perceived as “functional enough to use, but fragile enough to be set aside.” The findings highlight how reliability, comfort, safety, and access shape daily decisions, particularly for commuters who have access to both cars and public transport.

Discussion Papers
December 31, 2025
Greater Kuala Lumpur Mobilities Phase 1: Public Transport in Greater KL often works well enough to use, but fragile enough to be set aside
Public transport in Greater KL is often “good enough”, but easily set aside. GKLMOB Phase 1 examines the everyday frictions behind this fragility.
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