Several state universities have hit back at comments from controversial Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari that medical schools should limit the number of foreign students studying medicine in Indonesia to make way for more local students, reports the Jakarta Globe.
Suryo Baskoro, a spokesman for Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University, said that aside from the financial benefits, accepting foreign students increased trust in the quality of local education and contributed to creating an international atmosphere on campus, which benefited the students. "I see [local] students communicating with their international friends," he said. "They don't need to go abroad anymore for this experience."He said that by law, 10% of seats in a particular course, including medicine, could be allocated to foreign students. His university has 822 foreign students, about half of whom are enrolled in the medical school. The students pay up to $12,000 annually - far more than local students - once they are accepted into the highly competitive programme.
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0077 24 May 2009
18 Mei 2009
Indonesia: Dispute Over Foreign Students
David Jardine
An inter-ministerial battle has broken out over the number of foreign students taking up places in the country’s university medical faculties. The row involves the Ministry of National Education and the Heath Ministry with the Health Minister claiming the number of foreign medical students disadvantages Indonesians.
Siti Fadilah Supari is no stranger to controversy as it was she who refused to participate in international research into the H5N1 bird flu virus by blocking the release of tissue from Indonesian virus fatalities. She claimed at the time that the only beneficiaries would the big pharmaceutical firms.
In her latest intervention, Supari claimed the number of foreign medical students was disadvantageous to Indonesians. She has urged universities admitting foreign students to review their policies so more places are available for local would-be medics.
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0076 17 May 2009
An inter-ministerial battle has broken out over the number of foreign students taking up places in the country’s university medical faculties. The row involves the Ministry of National Education and the Heath Ministry with the Health Minister claiming the number of foreign medical students disadvantages Indonesians.
Siti Fadilah Supari is no stranger to controversy as it was she who refused to participate in international research into the H5N1 bird flu virus by blocking the release of tissue from Indonesian virus fatalities. She claimed at the time that the only beneficiaries would the big pharmaceutical firms.
In her latest intervention, Supari claimed the number of foreign medical students was disadvantageous to Indonesians. She has urged universities admitting foreign students to review their policies so more places are available for local would-be medics.
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0076 17 May 2009
11 Mei 2009
Animal Research Helps Animals too
John Richard Schrock
Last month, the FBI released a wanted poster on America’s first domestic terrorist. Daniel Andreas San Diego, an animal rights extremist, is being sought for alleged arson attacks on biotechnology companies in California. The FBI is offering a bounty of up to $250,000 for information leading to his arrest. The warrant highlights the issue of whether animals should be used in experiments intended to help humans.
Kansas is not California, a statement most Kansans are proud to assert. Membership in extreme animal rights organisations in Kansas is very low and most Kansans are at most only two or three relatives away from someone who works in an animal industry, from ranchers to meat processing to rodeo to pharmaceutical testing near Kansas City.
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0075 10 May 2009
Last month, the FBI released a wanted poster on America’s first domestic terrorist. Daniel Andreas San Diego, an animal rights extremist, is being sought for alleged arson attacks on biotechnology companies in California. The FBI is offering a bounty of up to $250,000 for information leading to his arrest. The warrant highlights the issue of whether animals should be used in experiments intended to help humans.
Kansas is not California, a statement most Kansans are proud to assert. Membership in extreme animal rights organisations in Kansas is very low and most Kansans are at most only two or three relatives away from someone who works in an animal industry, from ranchers to meat processing to rodeo to pharmaceutical testing near Kansas City.
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0075 10 May 2009
Indonesia-Australia: Higher Education Plays Diplomatic Role
David Jardine
Australia and Indonesia bind their sometimes strained relationship through Canberra’s progressive aid programme in higher education. Bill Farmer, Australian Ambassador to Jakarta, recently announced that Canberra was offering 300 postgraduate scholarships in Australia to Indonesian students.
There have been numerous low points in the relationship between the two massive neighbours, not least during and just after the 32-year Suharto dictatorship ended in 1998 amid turmoil on university campuses. Perhaps the most critical of those lows occurred during Indonesia's brutal occupation of East Timor and with the Bali and Australian embassy bombings.
The role that cooperation in higher education can play in binding wounds should not be underestimated. Farmer, for his part, clearly understands this, telling the Indonesian media,
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0075 10 May 2009
Australia and Indonesia bind their sometimes strained relationship through Canberra’s progressive aid programme in higher education. Bill Farmer, Australian Ambassador to Jakarta, recently announced that Canberra was offering 300 postgraduate scholarships in Australia to Indonesian students.
There have been numerous low points in the relationship between the two massive neighbours, not least during and just after the 32-year Suharto dictatorship ended in 1998 amid turmoil on university campuses. Perhaps the most critical of those lows occurred during Indonesia's brutal occupation of East Timor and with the Bali and Australian embassy bombings.
The role that cooperation in higher education can play in binding wounds should not be underestimated. Farmer, for his part, clearly understands this, telling the Indonesian media,
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0075 10 May 2009
04 Mei 2009
China: Universities to Test Morals, Knowledge
Universities will look beyond a student’s academic achievements to include moral and social efforts under new entrance guidelines announced on Monday, writes Liang Qiwen for China Daily. The Ministry of Education said results from the annual national college entrance examination would not be the sole criteria when assessing prospective university students.
Dai Jiagan, director of the Ministry of Education's examination centre, said students would have to undertake an overall scholastic assessment, and a comprehensive evaluation of other factors including their moral outlook, sport capabilities and social work.
Dai did not reveal when the new guidelines would be rolled out across the country, but said that provinces and cities that joined the curriculum reform program would be the first to introduce the new system. So far, 11 provinces and cities, including Guangdong and Shanghai, have joined the curriculum reform. Beijing will join next year.
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0074 03 May 2009
Dai Jiagan, director of the Ministry of Education's examination centre, said students would have to undertake an overall scholastic assessment, and a comprehensive evaluation of other factors including their moral outlook, sport capabilities and social work.
Dai did not reveal when the new guidelines would be rolled out across the country, but said that provinces and cities that joined the curriculum reform program would be the first to introduce the new system. So far, 11 provinces and cities, including Guangdong and Shanghai, have joined the curriculum reform. Beijing will join next year.
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0074 03 May 2009
Swine Flu Spreads Alarm in Higher Education
Geoff Maslen
The Mexican government last week ordered the closure of all universities and schools across the country as fears of a worldwide pandemic caused by the swine flu outbreak spread around the globe. The government’s Health Secretariat issued the closure order to apply from last Monday and more than 2.5 million university students and 30 million school students were immediately affected – the first nationwide shutdown of education institutions in Mexico’s history.
The increasing spread of the swine flu has led to a dozen US universities withdrawing students on exchange programmes in Mexico and to cancelling planned visits and seminars, although most institutions have taken a 'wait-and-see' attitude. Universities in other countries, whose governments have warned their citizens against travelling to the Americas, are likewise considering abandoning visits and exchanges.
Nations around the world are closely monitoring the outbreak after the World Health Organization raised its alert level and warned that a pandemic was possible. Last Wednesday, the WHO lifted the worldwide pandemic alert level to phase 4 - but the following day lifted it again to phase 5, the second highest of the six alert levels which the organisation classes as involving widespread human infection.
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0074 03 May 2009
The Mexican government last week ordered the closure of all universities and schools across the country as fears of a worldwide pandemic caused by the swine flu outbreak spread around the globe. The government’s Health Secretariat issued the closure order to apply from last Monday and more than 2.5 million university students and 30 million school students were immediately affected – the first nationwide shutdown of education institutions in Mexico’s history.
The increasing spread of the swine flu has led to a dozen US universities withdrawing students on exchange programmes in Mexico and to cancelling planned visits and seminars, although most institutions have taken a 'wait-and-see' attitude. Universities in other countries, whose governments have warned their citizens against travelling to the Americas, are likewise considering abandoning visits and exchanges.
Nations around the world are closely monitoring the outbreak after the World Health Organization raised its alert level and warned that a pandemic was possible. Last Wednesday, the WHO lifted the worldwide pandemic alert level to phase 4 - but the following day lifted it again to phase 5, the second highest of the six alert levels which the organisation classes as involving widespread human infection.
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Source: University World News, Issue No: 0074 03 May 2009
03 Mei 2009
Jumlah Sampel dan Ukuran Sampel: Tinjauan Terminologi
Nugraha Setiawan
Jumlah sampel merupakan rangkaian dua kata yang banyak ditemukan dalam buku-buku metode penelitian maupun statistika praktis yang ditulis dalam bahasa Indonesia untuk menyatakan “n”. Tepatkah terminologi tersebut?
Sekarang simak baik-baik definisi berikut ini: “Sample Size is the number of sampling units which are to be included in the sample. A sampling unit is one of the units into which an aggregate is divided for the purpose of sampling, each unit being regarded as individual and indivisible when the selection is made (The International Statistical Institute, “The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms”, edited by Yadolah Dodge, Oxford University Press, 2003)”.
Jadi dalam terminologi statistik yang benar, “n” dinyatakan dengan sample size, atau ukuran sampel, bukan jumlah sampel. Besar-kecilnya ukuran sampel dinyatakan dengan jumlah sampling unit.
Sebagai contoh, dalam penelitian yang mengkaji mengenai rata-rata pendapatan keluarga peternak di sebuah desa dengan responden 100 orang, maka bisa disebutkan bahwa jumlah sampel=1 (satu), ukuran sampel=100 (100 sampling unit).
Jumlah sampel merupakan rangkaian dua kata yang banyak ditemukan dalam buku-buku metode penelitian maupun statistika praktis yang ditulis dalam bahasa Indonesia untuk menyatakan “n”. Tepatkah terminologi tersebut?
Sekarang simak baik-baik definisi berikut ini: “Sample Size is the number of sampling units which are to be included in the sample. A sampling unit is one of the units into which an aggregate is divided for the purpose of sampling, each unit being regarded as individual and indivisible when the selection is made (The International Statistical Institute, “The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms”, edited by Yadolah Dodge, Oxford University Press, 2003)”.
Jadi dalam terminologi statistik yang benar, “n” dinyatakan dengan sample size, atau ukuran sampel, bukan jumlah sampel. Besar-kecilnya ukuran sampel dinyatakan dengan jumlah sampling unit.
Sebagai contoh, dalam penelitian yang mengkaji mengenai rata-rata pendapatan keluarga peternak di sebuah desa dengan responden 100 orang, maka bisa disebutkan bahwa jumlah sampel=1 (satu), ukuran sampel=100 (100 sampling unit).
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