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Posted: 08 Jan 2014 01:44 AM PST

by Johnson K Saai, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on October 8, 2013, Tuesday

KUCHING: The government should re-examine the salary structure for technicians and technical and vocational education trained (TVET) semi-professionals as this group of workers are currently being viewed as second-class manpower.

Minister of Infrastructure Development and Communication Minister Dato Sri Michael Manyin Jawong, who made the call, said because the civil service veered towards academic qualifications rather than skills, many people tended to shy away from pursing technical education whenever possible.

"It is easier in the private sector because a person's remuneration is usually based on their skills, capability and productivity, but not in the civil service.

"In the government sector, once you don't have the paper qualification, you will go nowhere no matter how good you are, or even if you have passed your diplomas or certificates with flying colours."

He said this to reporters yesterday after representing the chief minister to open the inaugural National Conference for Technicians and TVET Semi-Professionals (SwakCREATE 2013) here.

The event was organised by Politeknik Kuching Sarawak (PKS) and the Malaysian Society for Engineering and Technology (MySET).

Manyin said if the government were serious in promoting technical and vocational education, then it needed to look into this shortcoming because currently technicians and TVET semi-professionals are categorised as "supporting officers" under Grade B.

He opined that they should be categorised as Grade A officers, and enjoy same perks as degree holders.

"Because of our present system, most people, especially parents, consider being a technician or TVET semi-professional only as second choice, or even as the final resort."

Manyin said this state of affair should not be allowed to persist if Malaysia wanted to become a developed nation.

"The conference today is most appropriate in view of the ever increasing demand for technicians, but, unfortunately, the profession is not being recognised and appreciated to the level they deserved."

Earlier, MySET president Prof. Dato Abang Abdullah Abang Ali, who was also present at the press conference, lamented that very little emphasis had been put on this category of workers.

"They have no one to turn to. Unlike those from many other professions, technicians and TVET semi-professionals are not protected under certain laws.

"MySET realised this, and, in fact, we have submitted our draft for the establishment of Malaysian Board of Technologists (MBOT), but unfortunately it got stuck in the Attorney-General's Office for about two years now.

"Anyway, we will continue to push for MBOT to be tabled in Parliament, and be implemented. We feel this matter has been long, long overdue."

Also present at the news conference were the Education Ministry's Polytechnic Studies Department director-general Datuk Mohlis Jaafar and Politeknik Kuching Sarawak director Clara Ong Guat Leng.

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Funny Math Jokes

"Students nowadays are so clueless", the math professor complains to a colleague.

"Yesterday, a student came to my office hours and wanted to know if General Calculus was a Roman war hero…"

A mathematician organizes a raffle in which the prize is an infinite amount of money paid over an infinite amount of time.

Of course, with the promise of such a prize, his tickets sell like hot cake.

When the winning ticket is drawn, and the jubilant winner comes to claim his prize, the mathematician explains the mode of payment: "1 dollar now, 1/2 dollar next week, 1/3 dollar the week after that…"

A math student and a computer science student are jogging together in a park when they hear a voice: "Please, help me!"

They stop and look. The voice belongs to a frog sitting in the grass.

"Please, help me!" the frog repeats. "I'm not really a frog: I'm an enchanted, beautiful princess. Kiss me, and the spell will be broken – and I will be yours forever…"

The CS student picks up the frog and examines it carefully from all sides – making not even an attempt to kiss it.

"You don't have to marry me", the frog continues frantically, "if you're afraid of the commitment. I'll do whatever you wish me to do if you just kiss me…"

The frog's voice is silenced, when the CS student puts the animal into the right pocket of his pants.

"But why don't you kiss her?!" the math student asks.

"You know", the CS student replies, "I simply don't have time for a girlfriend – but a frog that talks makes a really cool pet…"

A visitor at the Royal Tyrell Museum asks a museum employee: "Can you tell me how old the skeleton of that T-Rex is?"

"It is precisely 60 million and three years, two months, and eighteen days old."

"How can you know that with such precision?!"

"Well, when I started working here, one of the scientists told me that the skeleton was 60 million years old – and that was precisely three years, two months, and eighteen days ago…"

"Divide fourteen sugar cubes into three cups of coffee so that each cup has an odd number of sugar cubes in it."

"That's easy: one, one, and twelve."

"But twelve isn't odd!"

"It's an odd number of cubes to put in a cup of coffee…"

A mathematician gives a talk intended for a general audience. The talk is announced in the local newspaper, but he expects few people to show up because nobody who is not a mathematician will be able to make any sense of the title: Convex sets and inequalities.

To his surprise, the auditorium is crammed when his talk begins. After he has finished, someone in the audience raises his hand.

"But you said nothing about the actual topic of your talk!"

"What topic to you mean?"

"Well, the one that was announced in the paper: Convicts, sex, and inequality."

At the end of his course on mathematical methods in optimization, the professor sternly looks at his students and says: "There is one final piece of advice I'm going to give you now: Whatever you have learned in my course – never ever try to apply it to your personal lives!"

"Why?" the students ask.

"Well, some years ago, I observed my wife preparing breakfast, and I noticed that she wasted a lot of time walking back and forth in the kitchen. So, I went to work, optimized the whole procedure, and told my wife about it."

"And what happened?!"

"Before I applied my expert knowledge, my wife needed about half an hour to prepare breakfast for the two of us. And now, it takes me less than fifteen minutes…"

Q: What is the most erotic number?

A: 2110593!

Q: Why?

A: When 2 are 1 and don't pay at10tion, they'll know within 5 weeks whether or not, after 9 months, they'll be 3…

Two math students, a boy and his girlfriend, are going to a fair. They are in line to ride the ferris wheel when it shuts down.

The boy says: "It's a sin for those people to keep us waiting like this!"

The girl replies: "No – it's a cosin, silly!!!"

Q: What do you get if you add two apples and three apples?

A: A high school math problem!

Q: What is the difference between a mathematician and a philosopher?

A: The mathematician only needs paper, pencil, and a trash bin for his work – the philosopher can do without the trash bin…

A newlywed husband is discouraged by his wife's obsession with mathematics. Afraid of being second fiddle to her profession, he finally confronts her: "Do you love math more than me?"

"Of course not, dear – I love you much more!"

Happy, although sceptical, he challenges her: "Well, then prove it!"

Pondering a bit, she responds: "Ok… Let epsilon be greater than zero…"

It is only two weeks into the term that, in a calculus class, a student raises his hand and asks: "Will we ever need this stuff in real life?"

The professor gently smiles and says: "Of course not – if your real life will consist of flipping hamburgers at MacDonald's!"

A math professor, a native Texan, was asked by one of his students: "What is mathematics good for?"

He replied: "This question makes me sick! If you show someone the Grand Canyon for the first time, and he asks you `What's it good for?' What would you do? Well, you kick that guy off the cliff!"

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