{"id":8831,"date":"2013-12-23T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=8831"},"modified":"2015-05-21T07:33:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T07:33:02","slug":"student-leaders-urged-to-be-more-mature-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/december-2013\/student-leaders-urged-to-be-more-mature-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Leaders Urged To Be More Mature"},"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-2013%2Fdecember-2013%2Fstudent-leaders-urged-to-be-more-mature-2%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=8831&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--><h2 class=\"contentheading\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<div class=\"newsitem_tools\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\"><span class=\"createdate\">MONDAY, 23 DECEMBER 2013 15:13<\/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\/Campus2013\/MoU-UKM-YPC-AhmadHusni1.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, 19 Dec 2013 \u2013 Student leaders or councils of universities should be more mature and more open-minded to face global challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Second Finance Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah said student leaders \u00a0should develop and implement programs that would ensure the future of the university graduates .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said there would be no direct benefit to the students if the representative bodies are narrow-minded or lack vision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The year 2020 will arrive soon . Young people need to look at a longer term,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was speaking at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between The National University of Malaysia (UKM) and Yayasan pendidikan Cheras, here today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni, who is UKM\u2019s Mentor Minister, explained that graduates in this country should be more willing to serve the country rather than pursue \u00a0selfish ends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For example , he said , Singapore and South Korea are now regarded as more advanced than Malaysia because they have youth conscription programmes which helped them leap-frog into developed nation status.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Malaysia has no plans for military conscription as Singapore and South Korea do , the country needs to create a program that encourages youth to focus on development .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He stressed that youths need more motivation and not be overly dependent on the government for assistance or encouragement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni also advise them to equip themselves with the skills of communication, whether oral or in cyberspace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Skills are not limited to Information and Communications Technology . They must be willing to become team players or volunteers .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, he added that traditional subjects such as writing and negotiations \u00a0are also important for their careers and must also be strengthened.<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\/Campus2013\/MoU-UKM-YPC-AhmadHusni2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY, 23 DECEMBER 2013 15:13 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Izwan Azman BANGI, 19 Dec 2013 \u2013 Student leaders or<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/december-2013\/student-leaders-urged-to-be-more-mature-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1236,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8831","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8831","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8831\/revisions\/8832"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}