Except for UP, top PH universities becoming less competitive: QS By Kim Arveen Patria | Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom – 5 hours ago View Photo NPPA - Students, faculty and administrators hold a vigil and candle lighting ceremony at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus in Quezon City March 18, 2013, following the death of student Kristel …more Philippine schools have become less competitive than its counterparts in other Asian countries, no thanks to budget cuts on education. All five Philippine schools ranked lower in London-based Quacquarelli Symonds’ “University Rankings: Asia” released Tuesday, than when the report was first published in 2009. “Philippine universities have struggled to match the rapid development seen in countries such as China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea,” QS head of research Ben Sowter said. Only the University of the Philippines has “maintained relative stability,” the report said, noting how the state-run school only slipped four places to ranking 67th this year from 63rd in 2009. QS said further that the latest report saw UP “actually improving its position slightly compared to 2012.” UP was ranked 68th in 2012. And except for UP, “other Philippine institutions have lost substantial ground,” QS said, citing drops in the rankings of the four other local schools in the list. The annual QS list ranks Asia’s top 300 universities based on academic and employer reputation, student-to-faculty ratio, quality of research and internationalization, among others. Ateneo de Manila University slid to ranking 109th this year from 86th previously. The University of Santo Tomas, meanwhile, ranked 150th, slipping from 148th in 2012. De La Salle University was in the 151-160 range while University of Southeastern Philippines was in 251-300. “Both lost over 50 places over the course of the last five years,” QS said. “[T]he various cuts to university funding implemented since 2009 have made it very hard for Philippine universities to remain competitive,” Sowter said. Local schools thus pale in comparison to other Asian universities which QS said “have gained significant ground on their Western counterparts and could overtake them within two decades.” The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology continued to top the QS list, followed by the National University of Singapore and the University of Hong Kong who share the second spot. Rounding out the list of top five Asian schools are Seoul National University in South Korea and Peking University in China. “Asian higher education is undergoing a rapid transformation, and Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Korea are at the forefront of the assault on the global academic elite,” Sowter said.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:25:21 +0000
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