Msia fails to make the cut, again
Published: Aug 19, 2006 12:26 PM | Updated: Jan 29, 2008 6:21 PM
Malaysia has failed to make it into the Shanghai Jiao Tong 500 World Universities Ranking 2006 for the fourth year running.
For the fourth year in a row, Malaysian universities have failed to make it into the Shanghai Jiao Tong 500 World Universities Ranking.
Malaysia has failed to make it into the Shanghai Jiao Tong 500 World Universities Ranking 2006 for the fourth year running.
Parliamentary Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang expressed disappointment that not a single Malaysian university was listed in the ranking.
Harvard and Cambridge take the top two spot this year.
The 92 universities from the Asia-Pacific region included in the list are from Japan (32 universities), Australia (16), China (9), South Korea (9), Israel (7), New Zealand (5), Taiwan (5), Hong Kong (5), India (2) and Singapore (2).
The top 10 universities from Asia-Pacific which made it to the list are Tokyo University (19), Kyoto University (22), Australian National University (54), Hebrew University Jerusalem (60), Osaka University (61), Tohoku University (76), University Melbourne (78), Tokyo Institute of Technology (89), Nagoya University (98) and Hokkaido University (102).
The Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University which conducted the survey ranks universities by several indicators.
They include alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, nature and science articles published, articles indexed in major citation indices and the per capita academic performance of the institution.
"It must be regarded a national shame that not a single of the 18 universities in Malaysia is to be regarded internationally as coming near the other universities in Asia Pacific," said Lim in a statement yesterday.
National shame
He pointed out that the best students in the country during the 50s and 60s opted for Universiti Malaya (UM) rather than universities in Australia citing only the University of Sydney and University of Melbourne were on par with UM then.
He said the standards and quality of Malaysian universities continue to decline while 16 lower division universities in Australia have achieved international acclaim by getting listed in the rankings.
Lim warned that as long as meritocracy and academic excellence are not restored to the "highest pedestal in Malaysian academia", local universities will never be able to compete with the best in the world.
"We can forget about our Vision 2020 aspirations of becoming a 'first world' nation," he said.
The veteran DAP leader said there is no guarantee that Malaysian universities can attain academic excellence and stand tall with the best universities if the "best of the best" students were denied their first-choice universities because of the continued subordination of meritocracy to non-academic considerations.
He also asked Higher Education Minister Mustapha Mohamad whether there would be a bold step taken to restore meritocracy, university excellence and quality by introducing a common entrance examination for university intake.
Malaysiakini's Crisis in Higher Education special reports
Parliamentary Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang expressed disappointment that not a single Malaysian university was listed in the ranking.
Harvard and Cambridge take the top two spot this year.
The 92 universities from the Asia-Pacific region included in the list are from Japan (32 universities), Australia (16), China (9), South Korea (9), Israel (7), New Zealand (5), Taiwan (5), Hong Kong (5), India (2) and Singapore (2).
The top 10 universities from Asia-Pacific which made it to the list are Tokyo University (19), Kyoto University (22), Australian National University (54), Hebrew University Jerusalem (60), Osaka University (61), Tohoku University (76), University Melbourne (78), Tokyo Institute of Technology (89), Nagoya University (98) and Hokkaido University (102).
The Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University which conducted the survey ranks universities by several indicators.
They include alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, nature and science articles published, articles indexed in major citation indices and the per capita academic performance of the institution.
"It must be regarded a national shame that not a single of the 18 universities in Malaysia is to be regarded internationally as coming near the other universities in Asia Pacific," said Lim in a statement yesterday.
National shame
He pointed out that the best students in the country during the 50s and 60s opted for Universiti Malaya (UM) rather than universities in Australia citing only the University of Sydney and University of Melbourne were on par with UM then.
He said the standards and quality of Malaysian universities continue to decline while 16 lower division universities in Australia have achieved international acclaim by getting listed in the rankings.
Lim warned that as long as meritocracy and academic excellence are not restored to the "highest pedestal in Malaysian academia", local universities will never be able to compete with the best in the world.
"We can forget about our Vision 2020 aspirations of becoming a 'first world' nation," he said.
The veteran DAP leader said there is no guarantee that Malaysian universities can attain academic excellence and stand tall with the best universities if the "best of the best" students were denied their first-choice universities because of the continued subordination of meritocracy to non-academic considerations.
He also asked Higher Education Minister Mustapha Mohamad whether there would be a bold step taken to restore meritocracy, university excellence and quality by introducing a common entrance examination for university intake.
Malaysiakini's Crisis in Higher Education special reports
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