To kevin1984, it’s not easy to earn a degree from foreign universities and let’s not compared about it. I have spent most of my time learning softwares, theories, practical lab work unlike the locals where most of them are backed by their lecturers most of the time. Percentage of local graduates unable to get a job is higher compared to the foreign graduates. Can you beat that? The education syllabus design flaws which is occuring in most of local institutions is real major constraints these days. So my point here is that there are pros and cons no matter you’re foreign or local graduates. Stop complaining and keep on moving forward. Look for the best alternative that suits yourself.

But they have forgotten about the most important element in this excellence of education environment (specially the private colleges) is the most forefront persons to promote quality in education i.e. the lecturers, in Malaysia, lecturers are receiving the lowest pay if comparing to their counterpart in the industry although with the higher degree (atleast masters degree and above). Private colleges lecturers are overworked and underpaid, they are deprived from the basic right to form an in house union, those involves in union somehow will “leave” or “retire” voluntarily soon (one of the college operators even take the HR minister to court for union matter for years).

When lecturers are not represented all kind of tactics will be used against the lecturers by the so called “education” operators, for example some “education” operators are “setting” minimum passing rate from 90% to 95 % for their lecturers in subject they are lecturing. This will be the guaranteed passing rate for each lecturer to pass their students in their subject as part of the “performance evaluation” and based on the “feedback” from students. So if a lecturer wants to have good feedback is to pass all his or her students in exams.

Another example is the put all-college-related jobs under the job descriptions of the lecturers. For example to invigilate their own students in examination, the is a conflict of interest in this situation but the ‘education” operators couldnt careless, however, the students are charged with expensive exam fee but lecturers are told this is part of their job descriptions without extra pay

There are many other indirect tactics and techniques used by the so called themselves “educationists” to exploit the situations against the lecturers however, these so called “education” operators they are interested in money making with meeting the bottom line and in long run they are against the government and LAN objectives to make Malaysia a education centre of excellence.

For instance, we have no objection for a unveristy to recruit students from different type of certificates such as A levels, STPM, matriculation but any exam must be open to all candidates not exclusively for a particular race. No body questions about A Levels, STPM or its equivalent exams because everyone can sit for it. But not for the matriculation which is reserved specially for one race although it started accepting 10% of the other races lately but already lost its credibility

http://www.webometrics.info/Webometrics%20library/discrepancias.pdf

BTW, I am not sure if private Universities in our country like MMU is rated/evaluated (or not allowed?) in THES and ARWU. But hearsay that it is not allowed…???

If Malaysia still stay with this kind of politic, it will be getting worse and worse. This is because a lot of Malay in Malaysia scare to compete with others and they don’t like to have competition that’s why they make a lot of laws and regulation to benefit themself. We all know that. If they don’t have the law, they won’t be able to survive.

March 6th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
i am a bit apprehensive to notice that Malaysian universities are ranked lower. however, we can’t perceive that Webometrics ranks publications are doing justice either.

indeed, we need to listen from the authorities of universities and colleges concerned to share comments and to shed lights on the matters. i have friends (academicians and administrations) from the universities who said that institutions like National University of Singapore has excellent expertise invited from all over the world. they are mostly foreigners from diverse fields ranging from latest technology to up-to-date medical discovery who were drawn to the city-state to make up the group of brain communities.

i am not sure but should we invite the best foreign academicians to attach to local universities so that the ranking will pick up? will born-and-bred Malaysians soon be competing for the post at the universities with foreigners, eying for the same academic positions? perhaps we should emulate what Singapore has done by relaxing the immigration rules so that foreigners will easily flocked to Malaysia. or should we?

there are always two sides of the coins hhhmmm….

WELL i would rather let the foreign expertise in instead of those illegal no brainer. Does it make any different by relaxing the immigration rules since we now have so many illegal immigrant in the country?

Even if we are able to attract foreign talent, are we capable of competing with them? The problem actually lies in Malaysia’s education system. The whole nation is lagging behind and lacking in competency.

Luckily i have choose the right choice of studying in Singapore. I’m having my internship now in Shanghai. I wonder if university in Malaysia do offer chance of having internship overseas.

I’m so speechless after checking the website…

In order to rank well among the Universities, the main thing is that paper publishing and international presentation. Most of our undergraduate do not participate in publishing paper in journal where overseas undergraduate mostly took part in writing paper with the guidance from the lecturer. Even their findings is not big but they tend to write more, therefore I think if we want to rank well first thing we must do is nurture our writing skills and publish more paper.

ahkok1982, you choose not to go to local universities or you just did not get in?
I can ensure you that most of the company do prefer local grad than oversea because technically most fresh grad no matter you are from local or oversea universities, your knowledge gained was just theoretical and what we need in industry is a lot more than what we learn. In university, we just learn how to search for information, do some critical thinking, analyze which is the best and the rest is still learning process. With a huge amount of school fees differences, I can say that local universities is a better bargain.

kafkalee, I agree with you that MNC’s hire most of our local graduate and I am proud to say that I am going to be one of them.

Don’t blame the system, don’t let the ranking influence our studies in uni; if you felt you are missing something, find a solution, step up and make changes to suit you.

SMU is ranked lowly possibly because they just started a few years ago.

real ashame…
ptui…
say NO to UMNO, MCA, MIC…
bunch of monkey see monkey do….

When the formerly premier MU is falling like a rock, you know that the rot has set in. I hear the politicians favour the rural universities because of the rural votes there, so they pump in a lot of assistance and publicity there.

However, all is not lost. In terms of University infrastructures, I am sure Malaysian Universities will outrank many universities on the list. Billions have been spent on building our universities, money is no problem. Idris Jusoh of Terengganu state said recently that we have buildings, facilities and infrastructure “comparable to Harvard, minus the professors”. Every one of the Universities have a fleet of expensive luxury buses (More than RM 1 million each) to ferry their students around the country. Style mesti ada. Standard boleh compromi la. What are our priorities? Educational standards or ‘style’?

indeed, we need to listen from the authorities of universities and colleges concerned to share comments and to shed lights on the matters. i have friends (academicians and administrations) from the universities who said that institutions like National University of Singapore has excellent expertise invited from all over the world. they are mostly foreigners from diverse fields ranging from latest technology to up-to-date medical discovery who were drawn to the city-state to make up the group of brain communities.

i am not sure but should we invite the best foreign academicians to attach to local universities so that the ranking will pick up? will born-and-bred Malaysians soon be competing for the post at the universities with foreigners, eying for the same academic positions? perhaps we should emulate what Singapore has done by relaxing the immigration rules so that foreigners will easily flocked to Malaysia. or should we?

there are always two sides of the coins hhhmmm….