KrushTVonline: December 2010

Monday, December 13, 2010

First McDonald's in Kampar

By TAI POH YEE

The First in Kampar

The first McDonald’s Drive-Thru Restaurant in Mukim Kampar was opened on 14th October 2010, franchised by Golden Arches Restaurants Sdn. Bhd. This would be written in the history of Kampar after McDonald’s been so famous in Malaysia so many years. Many positive impacts would be on bringing in subsequently after the opening of the branch.

Franchise Opportunity of McDonald’s in Kampar

It’s been sometime since the Kampar Campus of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) and Tunku Abdul Rahman College (TARC) has been open for pupils to pursue their undergraduate studies. This relocation strategy did brought a huge impact to the economy of Kampar. Well, at least the New Town of Kampar. Many new hawker stalls, shops and cafes have been newly founded around that area, which means the increase of student population had been giving the owner’s of Ronald McDonald’s Fast Food Company another thought of distributing a franchise opportunity for people to open a branch in Kampar.

UTAR Students Drive All the Way to Gopeng for McDonald’s Meal

Ever before the Kampar branch of McDonald’s was established, pupils from UTAR and TARC drive all the way from Kampar to Gopeng to enjoy the fast food service. The 40-minute single trip journey shows how passion they are upon the McDonald’s. They are more than happy to enjoy the foods available despite they have to suffer from time consuming and mentally and physically burn out.

People Shows Excitement Over the Banner Showed

When the notification banner was hung, people in Kampar who passed by it did made a lot of discussions among themselves. Peoples especially the students show a lot of anticipate on that as they would have a whole new spot for them to gather, to chill out, and to do revision and researches for their assignments.

UPSR 2010 Results See Improvement From Previous Year

By TEOH SHU CHYI

More Than 10% of Candidates Aced All the Subjects

The 2010 Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) results indicated a slight improvement this year compared with last year, with the overall national average grade increasing by 0.02 per cent, Education Director-General Datuk Abd Ghafar Mahmud exclaimed.

A total of 482,334 candidates sat for UPSR at 8,192 examination centres nationwide which was held from 21st to 23rd of September.

This year's Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) results saw 10.02% of candidates scoring straight As. Datuk Abdul Ghafar Mahmud said that a total of 48,327 of 482,334 UPSR candidates this year obtained all As as compared to 9.5% last year.

Proud: Abdul Ghafar holding a book containing the UPSR 2010

results after announcing the results in Putrajaya.

He added that national primary schools recorded 4.5% more As for Bahasa Melayu (Comprehension) this year, but saw a decline of As for Bahasa Melayu (Writing Skills) by 8.9%. Both national and vernacular schools saw an improvement in the English paper, recording a national average grade of 2.74 (from 2.79 last year) and 2.69 (from 2.8 last year).

Internet Users Debate on Level of Education Standard

Many internet users have voiced out their opinions regarding this issue. Internet user Nstman commented that the government lowered the level of standard set by them to ensure that more students could obtain more As and there are those who cannot even converse in simple English or do not even know that difference between a verb and a noun yet miraculously score A in the English exam.

He also went on to say that the standard of education was much higher back in the sixties. While the standard of education is sliding by the day, the number of As keeps shooting up.

Internet users' comments on the issue.

To improve the standard of education in Malaysia is not as simple as just lowering its standard. Let's hope that next year's UPSR will see even better results from this year, but through proper and standardized marking system.