{"id":8862,"date":"2013-12-19T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=8862"},"modified":"2015-05-21T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T10:58:19","slug":"education-ministry-to-look-into-programme-for-precocious-youths","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/arkib-berita\/tahun-2013\/disember-2013\/education-ministry-to-look-into-programme-for-precocious-youths\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Ministry to Look Into Programme For Precocious Youths"},"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%2Farkib-berita%2Ftahun-2013%2Fdisember-2013%2Feducation-ministry-to-look-into-programme-for-precocious-youths%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=8862&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\">KHAMIS, 19 DISEMBER 2013 00:00<\/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\/KemPERMATApintar1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Nurul Haziqah Abdul Halim<br \/>\nPix by Shahiddan Saidi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 12 Dec 2013 \u2013 Highly Intelligent students with above average IQ should be given a fast track in their studies in order to polish their talent and skills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking during his visit to The National University of Malaysia\u2019s (UKM) academy of gifted children the \u00a0PERMATA pintar Centre Complex here today, Minister of Education II Dato\u2019 Seri Idris Jusoh said the government is trying to figure out a way that will best suit precocious youths, so that their talents would not be wasted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere are some children and youths who we must keep polishing and give more attention to\u00a0 because they are special and will need more due diligence in handling them,\u201d Dato\u2019 Seri Idris said when addressing some of the students who were there to welcome him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vice-Chancellor of UKM Prof Tan Sri Dato&#8217; Seri Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin and\u00a0 Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and International Affairs) Prof. Datuk Dr. Noor Azlan Ghazali, were there to greet him when he arrived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The visit of Dato\u2019 Seri Idris coincided with the PERMATA pintar School Holiday Camp programme, which was run in association with the John Hopkins University Centre of Talented Youth (JHU \u2013 CTY).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is an agreement between PERMATApintar and JHU &#8211; CTY, for implementing programmes to strengthen the understanding and studies in science.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He explained that highly intelligent youths must be given more attention and be guided on their studies that are on par with their IQ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPutting more shine to their amazing talent will ensure that they grow up into successful people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PERMATA pintar complex\u00a0 is Malaysia\u2019s only centre of excellence responsible for identifying gifted and talented students from around the country and providing the opportunity to enable them to develop their true potential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was founded in 2009 under the administration of the Faculty of Education and later became an entity under the Chancellery in 2010.<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\/KemPERMATApintar2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/KemPERMATApintar3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHAMIS, 19 DISEMBER 2013 00:00 By Nurul Haziqah Abdul Halim Pix by Shahiddan Saidi BANGI, 12 Dec 2013 \u2013 Highly<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/arkib-berita\/tahun-2013\/disember-2013\/education-ministry-to-look-into-programme-for-precocious-youths\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1239,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8862","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8862","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=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8863,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8862\/revisions\/8863"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}