{"id":7884,"date":"2012-07-06T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=7884"},"modified":"2015-05-14T02:00:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T02:00:18","slug":"czech-first-lady-wants-her-country-to-emulate-permatapintar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2012\/july-2012\/czech-first-lady-wants-her-country-to-emulate-permatapintar\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech First Lady Wants Her Country To Emulate PERMATAPintar"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2012%2Fjuly-2012%2Fczech-first-lady-wants-her-country-to-emulate-permatapintar%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=7884&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"midblock\">\n<div class=\"insidem\">\n<div class=\"news_item_a\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"createdate\">FRIDAY, 06 JULY 2012 15:36<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/CzechFirstLady1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin<br \/>\nPix Izwan Azman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 5 July 2012 &#8211; The First Lady of the Czech Republic, Livia Klausov\u00e1, impressed with The National University of Malaysia\u2019s (UKM) Centre for Gifted Youths, PERMATApintar\u00ae said teachers and lecturers from her country could learn from the experiences of the school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madame Klausov\u00e1, who is accompanying her husband Czech President, V\u00e1clav Klaus now on a state visit to Malaysia from July 4 to July 7, expressed surprise at seeing a centre for precocious youngsters instead of an ordinary school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said had she known earlier that she would be visiting such an institution, she would have brought over professionals, specialist teachers and lecturers from her country to study the way the centre operates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She made the remarks after a briefing on PERMATApintar\u00ae by its Director, Associate Professor Dr Noriah Mohd Ishak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also present were UKM Vice-Chancellor, Prof Tan Sri Dato\u2019 Wira Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Prof Dato\u2019 Dr Rahmah Mohamed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madame Klausov\u00e1, an economist in her own right, said the University of Prague might be interested in having a similar school. There are currently four Malaysian undergraduates studying there \u2013\u00a0two of them doing medicine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said she barely recognised Malaysia after her first visit in 1996 when her husband was Czech Premier as so much had changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Czech entourage visited a classroom in session, a science laboratory and the main library of the centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also met some students and was told about the grueling schedule at the centre. They were later regaled by a quartet of students who played traditional Asian and Western Classical music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madame Klausov\u00e1 presented the school with a traditional Czech musical instrument, the Dudy, which is similar to the Scottish and Irish bagpipes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/CzechFirstLady2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/CzechFirstLady3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Livia Klausov\u00e1 n\u00e9e Mi\u0161tinov\u00e1, born in 1943 in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, has been First Lady of the Czech Republic since 2003.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An alumna of the University of Economics, Prague, she married fellow economist V\u00e1clav Klaus in 1968. They have two sons, V\u00e1clav\u00a0and Jan, and five grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Czech Republic\u00a0is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Poland to the north, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east. Its capital and largest city, with 1.3 million inhabitants, is Prague.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PERMATApintar\u00ae organised its first annual enrichment programme School Holiday Camp in 2009 developed in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University Centre for Talented Youth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It offers grade-level courses to gifted children between the ages of nine and 15. More than 1,500 students from Malaysia and other countries including Singapore, Brunei, Oman and India have taken part.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2012\/CzechFirstLady4.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"leftblock\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY, 06 JULY 2012 15:36 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Izwan Azman BANGI, 5 July 2012 &#8211; The First Lady<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2012\/july-2012\/czech-first-lady-wants-her-country-to-emulate-permatapintar\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7887,"parent":1278,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7884","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7888,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7884\/revisions\/7888"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}