Maktab Perguruan Kota Bharu atau lebih terkenal dengan nama KBTC (Kota Bharu Teacher's College) memulakan pembinaan pada tahun 1952 di atas kawasan seluas 93 ekar, di Pengkalan Chepa, Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Pada 24 Ogos 1954 kumpulan pertama 150 guru pelatih melapor diri di KBTC bagi menggantikan pengambilan ke Maktab Perguruan Kirby, Liverpool dan Wovehampton, England. Tenaga pengajar kebanyakan terdiri dari pensyarah-pensyarah luar negara khususnya dari London. Antara tahun 1954 hingga 1957 KBTC telah melatih guru-guru sekolah menengah dengan menawarkan kursus Pendidikan Kesihatan, Bahasa, Seni Lukis, Kerjatangan, Ilmu Hisab, Sains, Sejarah, Muzik, Sains Rumah Tangga dan Geografi. Pada 11 Ogos 1954 KBTC telah dirasmikan oleh Tuan Terutama Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, SIR DONALD MAC GILLIVARY. Hadir sama di dalam upacara gilang gemilang itu ialah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Sultan dan Tengku Mahkota Kelantan. Mulai Tahun 1958 KBTC telah mengambil alih untuk melatih guru-g...
A drink with as little as one gram of lemon grass contains enough citral to prompt cancer cells to commit suicide in the test tube. At first, Benny Zabidov, an Israeli agriculturalist who grows greenhouses full of lush spices on a pastoral farm in Kfar Yedidya in the Sharon region, couldn't understand why so many cancer patients from around the country were showing up on his doorstep asking for fresh lemon grass. It turned out that their doctors had sent them. 'They had been told to drink eight glasses of hot water with fresh lemon grass steeped in it on the days that they went for their radiation and chemotherapy treatments,' Zabidov told ISRAEL21c. 'And this is the place you go to in Israel for fresh lemon grass.' It all began when researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev discovered last year that the lemon aroma in herbs like lemon grass kills cancer cells in vitro, while leaving healthy cells unharmed. The research team was led by Dr. Rivka Ofir and Pro...
Beyond the 'Dong Zong issue' by Azly Rahman in Malaysiakini I read with interest about ongoing governmental discrimination against Chinese schools, as highlighted by Dong Zong. Why are quality teachers and an abundance of resources still channeled only to Malay-dominated schools? Why are children in Chinese schools criminalised by the ‘sanction on teaching staff” which will ultimately deprive students of a good mother-tongue education? What actually is our illness with regard to denial of the students’ right to their own language? Do policy makers actually understand the relationship between culture, cognition, consciousness and citizenship? What does nationalism mean these days, and how do we understand it vis-a-viz use of language in schools? Whose brand of nationalism is being made dominant and what should an inclusive one look like? What is the real issue behind the age-old request for the Chinese schools to have more teachers? How are the children criminalised by all this?...
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