The effectiveness of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) on students’ motivation and attitude

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) was developed at the University of California at Santa Cruz in the 1970's by its founders and principal authors, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, a professor of linguistics (Tosey & Mathison, 2003). Richard Bandler was a mathematics and computer science students while John Grinder is a linguistics professor. NLP helps in the teaching and learning process, especially in the classroom management. NLP was first introduced in Malaysia in the 21st century and since there are many training centres such as Akademi NLP Malaysia which train Malaysian universities and polytechnic lecturers and NLP Malaysia Centre of Excellence (NLPMC) which was the first to train NLP in Malay language

Sexual misconduct of minors: responsibilities of community to overcome it

Minors are part of community that plays very important roles because they are part of an asset that will lead the country in future. In 2008, it was recorded that 10.5 million over 27.7 million population in Malaysia are minors (Zakaria, 2010). Based on the studies that had been conducted in Malaysia, more than 300 individual between age of 13 and 25 were involved in sexual misconduct and about 80% of minors that had died due to this issue are under age of four (Pakianathan, 2006). As we all knew, the victims of this sexual misconduct are among minors. It is because they did not felt that the actions made towards them were not wrong, in fact, it was amusing. Besides, they were not exposed to the sexual education (Salleh, 2016)