USM did it again?

Well...looks like USM once again in the 'blue ocean'.
The first ever university to screw up admission name list.
For me, there is too much of hidden processes and stories kept floating.

Firstly, such blunder cannot be accepted. NO WAY! How can you mess up such an important job? Maybe the officer or clerk givent the task of uplaoding the list didn't even care to pay attention or just not competent to think before their actions. This is in the sense that i presume the namelist should have pass through a lot of officers and departments for screening before it is released (then again, i dont understand why everything must be done so secretive!)

This is not about APEX or not. Is about competency. It is not that crucial whether this mistake was done by an APEX university or not, but no one should have did such 'obvious' and 'silly' mistake. A complete open target for people to shoot!

Now USM is under enormous pressure and monitoring. This event had sparked a lot of quetions again. I HAD confidence when USM embarked on the APEX journey. A journey of transperancy, profesionalism, competency and equity. Now incoming student is distressed, parents distrust the university's system, other university making us a laughing stock, poor Prof Shukri facing pressure to step down. Where is our mighty Tan Sri VC? Being Silent is not good enough.

He once said that blue ocean strategy is about the future. i agree totally.
He said we shouldn't be struggling and solving issues of the past. i agree.
But see what is happening now? Is this not enough to tell him that solving these current issue is prior before we can even think about the future?

Secondly, does USM deserve a second chance? Can the university given a chance to really explain themselves? YES! they must! Failing is a way of learning. No matter how messy it is, there is always something to learn about. I think this event is really big enough to give a wake up call for USM that things must be change if you really wanted people to convinced that you are the APEX university. No one in the university can be excluded. Down right to the most junior clerk to the most senior registrar. The whole concept of APEX is about paradigm shift. Working the way we are doing it like the pass 40 years isn't gonna take us to APEX. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! When are we seriously going to focus?

All talking and waiting for documents to emerge is only all on papers. Enough of talking. Enough of searching where we want to put ourselves.
Am thinking..if USM is not under the APEX programme, will we get so much attention with such blunder? Will we make it in the frontpage of the mainstream papers with such blunder? i wonder! Im still with you USM..

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