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The decision of the Malaysian government to make it compulsory for students to pass History at the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia level in 2012 has attracted a positive response from Malaysian people. General public opinion on making history compulsory seems favourable on all sides of the social and political spectrum, but there remain many questions to be answered regarding the content of the history syllabus. Certain quarters have pushed for a re-evaluation of the syllabus that includes, amongst other things, the history of each Malaysian race and its leaders. This paper provides a comparison of the successes and failures of history education in developed countries including Britain, Australia and Canada, to consider whether Malaysia can learn from their experiences. It also provides an evaluation of Malaysia's history syllabus at Form Five level, particularly in terms of what, should properly constitute Malaysian history, as well as exploring the relevance of history teaching to the country's educational objectives. Finally, it explores problems of teaching history at school level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Decent work as a tool to stimulate economic growth is one of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that sets by the United Nations. Taking into account that the non-standard employment is increasingly popular, the interest of the workers in this employment class must be equally protected. In the context of either employment law or human resource dimension, non-standard employment is not at all new because the issue has been commonly debated in many literatures since 1980s. Among the key features of non-standard employment are specified duration of service, non-permanent or temporary position, part-time or full-time status of job and flexible work arrangement. The scenario in Australia has shown that in parallel to the rapid popularity of non-standard employment, their labour law regimes also have been through all the necessary changes so that the laws adequately addressed the needs of these segments of workers. This article aims at reviewing the transformation of Australian labour law in general and at the same time, exploring some legal issues that have been debated for the interest of the non-standard workers. The author examines the framework of labor law ranging from 1990s to date by reviewing existing literature. In addition, the development of non-standard workers in Australia job industry will be looked into. Finally, the author outlines some aspects throughout the process of transformation of the Australian employment law that can be carefully considered and learned in our process of transforming the Malaysian employment law into a better set of law in future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]