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Health Professions Education, Higher Education Commentary, Occupational Therapy, Social Justice Commentary

Repairing Occupational Therapy Classrooms (Part 1)

This blog post has been sitting in my drafts folder for some time now, since ‘decolonisation’ became a “new” buzzword for the occupational therapy profession via The 2018 WFOT (World Federation of Occupational Therapy) Congress in Africa which catapulted the concept into the spotlight, causing murmurs of controversy in the international occupational therapy community. The long delay from idea to…

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Higher Education Commentary, Social Justice Commentary

Underemployment among B40 graduates in Malaysia

Underemployment among Malaysian graduates has been an issue for some time now, yet we don’t seem anywhere close to resolving the issue. I used to teach B40 students, some who were ineligible to study in government higher education institutions. I also used to hire staff who are from this population. There are several young people from this population I continue…

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Higher Education Commentary, Social Justice Commentary

B40 afraid of starting businesses? Only want money?

I personally think it is much harder for people from the B40 communities to start businesses due to having less insulation from risk. They would also typically lack the means to acquire the social capital needed to make a business succeed. So when our Entrepreneurship Development Minister made comments about the B40 community as per the headline, I decided to…

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