BATU PAHAT: A retired teacher who went online looking for a cleaner paid an initial fee of only RM15 but ended up losing her life savings of RM250,000.It is learnt that the teacher, who was expecting guests at her home, sourced for cleaning services on social media earlier this month. Sources said the teacher clicked on...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Education Ministry will extend the intake of candidates for the Bachelor of Teaching Degree Programme (PISMP) to include Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM), Sijil Tinggi Agama Malaysia (STAM), and Matriculation Programme graduates starting this year. In a statement on Saturday (April 13), the ministry announced that this initiative will provide opportunities for more...
PETALING JAYA: The Education Ministry has taken action in a case involving a teacher sexually harassing a student. The ministry said it would not tolerate any incidents of sexual harassment at any of its institutions. "This case is under the ministry’s attention and action has been taken according to existing guidelines," it said in a statement on...
SEPANG: A teacher is being investigated for allegedly having a sexual relationship with one of her students. Sepang OCPD Asst Comm Wan Kamarul Azran Wan Yusof said police learned of the matter after the student's mother lodged a report on Dec 12. "We received a report from the 46-year-old woman after she noticed her son had red...
25-year-old heiress Alice Ho holds double degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University. Alice Ho, the youngest daughter of late casino king Stanley Ho, is going places. The 25-year-old, whose mum is Stanley's fourth wife, not only holds double degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she also has a Masters in Chinese public policy from Beijing's...
BUKIT MERTAJAM: He took a curtain call finally after spending four decades “married” to the school where he studied and taught. “I came to school with my hair all black and now I am going away with my hair all white,” said K. Sundaresan with a laugh. The 60-year-old studied from Form One to Form Six at...
PETALING JAYA: From a mischievous child in his early years and then a gangster in secondary school, nobody would have imagined that Parthiban Navoo would someday be performing brain surgery and saving lives. With his poor grades, his school teachers had given up on him and often remarked that he would fail “even as a labourer.” But...
PETALING JAYA: A teacher recently promoted to headmistress has drawn praise from social media users over a social media video showing her with an array of gifts from her students. The headmistress, identified in the video as Bibiana, was recently promoted and her son Adrian Edy created a TikTok video on his account @adrianedy7 with his...
SEREMBAN: A retired teacher has been cheated out of RM480,000 in a phone scam here. Seremban police chief Asst Comm Arifai Tarawe said the 56-year-old victim had received a call from an individual claiming to be from a courier company on Nov 15. The caller had told the teacher that she had a parcel containing a cheque...
BALIK PULAU: A Form Five student claims he sustained an eye injury after allegedly being hit by a teacher. In a video on social media, the teenager's 47-year-old father said his son suffered internal bleeding of the right eye after the incident in a Sungai Ara secondary school on Thursday (Sept 14). He expressed his disappointment over...
