REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Assalamualaikum and hey!! Welcome back to my blog. So, today I have learnt on a new topic which is the Challenges to Sustainable Development. Based on what I have learned in the class, there are 4 general challenges in applying SDGs. The challenges are inequalities of access to educational resources, inequalities of access to health facilities, inequality of access to food and inequalities of access to clean water. There are so many unsustainability and inequity that exists in this world. The unsustainability is including socio-economic inequity, cultural inequity, societal inequity, familial inequity, programmatic inequity, instructional inequity, linguistic inequality, assessment inequality and etc. Meanwhile, the other specific challenges are climate change and clean energy, sustainable transport system, sustainable consumption and production patterns, global poverty, social inclusion, demography and migration issues, public health system, and conservation and management of natural ...

Assalamualaikum and hey!! Welcome back to my blog. So, today I have learnt on a new topic which is the Roles of Universities & Sustainable Development. As we all know, the university plays a big role in everything other than industry and government (Triple Helix Model). So, in order to spread awareness on sustainable development, the university needs to take its responsibility to spread it among the students. This photo had been taken by me, myself I am actually grateful for joining IIUM as it is the only university that has implemented the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among the students. There is a course subject UNGS 1201 that has newly been created for new undergraduates students since this semester which is semester 1, 2020/2021. It aims to solely introduce the students on what the SDGs all about and teaches the students how to implement it in their life. 'Falsafah Pendidikan Kebangsaan' and 'Pendidikan Abad Ke-21' have played its big role in achieving t...

Assalamualaikum and hey!! Welcome back to my blog. So, today I have learnt on a new topic which is the Framework of Sustainable Development. In this topic, we have learnt a lot about history in making the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) where we applied it since to 2016 till 2030. We also learnt that before SDGs being established, the United Nations (UN) had applied the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2000-2015. There are so many differences between MDGs and SDGs.  One of them is the theme. For MDGs, it more focusses on poverty while SDGs focusses on sustainable development where it includes more aspects. Moreover, MDGs only applied to the developing countries while SDGs apply to universal. In term of the number of goals, MDGs only had 8 goals while SDGs have 17 goals. To get more info on the transition of SDGs from MDGs, you can watch the video below. Besides, today I also learnt about Sejahtera. Sejahtera is a Malay word which means prosperous. So, the definition of ...