Columns/Op-Eds

    Expert Opinion

JCI Fellows occasionally issue opinions letters and editorials in their own professional capacity to media and platforms.

    Thematic

This section archives and collects a curated range of these pieces where such supports JCI objectives.

Has COVID-19 revolutionised our education system?

Education & Social Studies Ops
Governance Studies Ops
Karen Chand opines if the Malaysian education system reflect the type of society that we want.

MySay: Will coronavirus bring crucial epiphanies to redeem the human species?

Education & Social Studies Ops
Governance Studies Ops
Dr. Ooi Kee Beng proposes ethical changes to spur societal improvement under the new normal imposed by COVID-19.

Redefining the global ‘new normal’ after COVID-19

Economic Studies Ops
Education & Social Studies Ops
Governance Studies Ops
Dr. Ooi Kee Beng comments on COVID-19 being a wake-up call to act on environmental, economic and existential problems predating the pandemic.

MySay: The new normal — regionalising the global and the national

Economic Studies Ops
Education & Social Studies Ops
Governance Studies Ops
Dr. Ooi Kee Beng proposes Malaysia's strategy moving forward amidst a triple whammy of political, social and economic constraints in the first half of 2020.

Children and coronavirus: A social protection view

Education & Social Studies Ops
Governance Studies Ops
The recently announced initiatives do not address the burdens that poor families with children have to disproportionately shoulder due to Covid-19.

my Say: Malaysia, truly the world

Education & Social Studies Ops
Governance Studies Ops
Dr. Ooi Kee Beng weighs in on the factors of conflict in Malaysia.

Decentralising Malaysia’s education system

Education & Social Studies Ops
Governance Studies Ops
The next stage in Malaysia’s catching-up process requires that economic growth...