MALAYSIA ONLY ONE UNIVERSITY KNOWN AT UNIVERSITI MALAYA FOUND PLACE AT 32 OUT OF 50 TOP RANKING UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD DESPITE THIS ITS PERFORMANCE IS DECLINING EVERY YEAR IN BOTH SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ACCORDING to the annual QS University Rankings Asia last year, the only Malaysian university in the top 50 ranking was Universiti Malaya at 32nd place. Which university ranked first in Asia? No surprises that the top honours went to National University of Singapore (NUS) with The University of Hong Kong coming in at second place. We have to look further down the ranking to locate Malaysia’s other public universities. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (56), Universiti Sains Malaysia (57), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (66) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (76). Malaysian public universities last year were also left out of the latest ranking of the annual Times Higher Education (THE) Top 100 Universities under 50 years old. Furthermore, Malaysia was also absent from the Times Higher Education World Reputation rankings list last year, losing out to other Asian countries, with Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea making it into the worldwide top 50 ranks. However, Malaysia fares slightly better when placed in rankings that focus only on emerging economies, like UKM coming in top 10 in the BRICS & Emerging Economies Ranking 2015. Is this problem of declining global ranking only confined to tertiary educations? The answer, unfortunately is no. Malaysian secondary school students’ performance is lagging behind their worldwide peers too. In the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which examines the scholastic performance of 15-year-old pupils in mathematics, science and reading, Malaysia was ranked 52nd out of 65 countries Malaysia’s performance was not only below the OECD average, but in areas such as science and reading, there was deterioration in performance compared the previous assessment.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:17:27 +0000
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