"knuckled down" in the charmed circle, raised the limit on "vent ennies," and won and lost their marbles good naturedly ... Mr....

Marble-laying work was going on most of the floors, including the upper basement. While the outer walls of the multi-level facility were freshly white-washed and decorated with flowers for its launch on Wednesday, inside, heaps of construction material could be seen piled up on all the floors....lot for Malaysia, albeit in very different ways: Saudi Arabia and Singapore. The topic of discussion in the informative Education in Malaysia blog is the announcement that Professor Shih Choon Fong (pictured above, third from the left), President of the National University of Singapore (NUS), will become Founding President of King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, near Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia. We briefly profiled KAUST, a university with a $10 billion endowment before opening its gates in 2009, in an entry on 26 October. As Tony Pua of Education in Malaysiaputs it, Shih’s appointment raises issues about the politics of how senior leaders of Malaysian universities are appointed. It is his view that:

Malaysian universities, to achieve any form of “greatness” has to first start