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Just a matter of interest I hv copied this from NUS site and paste it here:

“The University [i.e. NUS] enjoyed a major funding of $343 million in research grants in Financial Year 2007 from the National Research Foundation, Ministry of Education and other agencies, registering an increase of 28 per cent over the year before.

Some highlights of our achievements in Research in the past financial year are

NUS was awarded its second Research Centre of Excellence (RCE) – the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore – following last year’s Centre for Quantum Technologies, with funding of $172 million over seven years
over $18 million was awarded for two projects undertaken by the Faculty of Engineering on membrane materials and spintronics.
$13 million was received for six projects undertaken by the Interactive and Digital Media Institute
$10 million was received through the NRF Competitive Research Programme Funding Grant for Lipidomics. Similar amounts were also received for 3 other projects in energy, spintronic and graphene research.
NUS is in collaboration with the world’s largest non-profit cancer research institute, the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, to set up its first Asia branch for translational and clinical cancer research.
Energy Studies Institute (ESI), first such think-tank in Southeast Asia, was established to make Singapore a centre for strategic research on energy
Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) was set up, with support from the Economic Development Board, to conduct world-class R&D and train specialist manpower.”

I dont know if the info disclosed by NUS is complete. In other words I am not sure if the total r&d fund for nus is as noted. But considering that our r&d allocation is concentrated in just a few universities, then really our r&d fund is not small at all, in comparison. That really makes the case worse for our universities. Our universities ranking dropped not because of lack of research fundings. Our ranking dropped inspite of substantial fundings.

Probably they will come up with a solar-powered torch light with that R&D. O yeah, that would be the light of the day.

Mahathir education system means brain-washing our kids with BN propagandas. Yeah, scr*w up their mind while they are still young to be subservient. While they sent their children overseas for better educations and to Lord over the future halfly-baked rakyat when their sons are ready to take over.

We can spent billion on R & D on so call education but the saddest fact was we can have a stream of teaching staffs from primary right up to the university level.

Malaysian is go to pay its price as time to come without serious looking at revolutionized its education system.

For the past decade since Mahathir time until now our education system has been deteriorating. This also answer what private school and the Chinese run Independent school was so popular now then ever. This also compounded with the rise of China, with expert predicting Mandarin is must known language in the very near future.

Malaysia can take the lead but with the shortsightedness of the politician they are still worry the ethic Chinese will take over their right. This mentality may be true in the past but not now.

Indonesian/Vietnam/Thailand and even Cambodia is catching up.

proposition: there is no relationship between the funds allocation and public university performance

hypothesis H(0): there is no correlation between the R&D funds allocation and quality of tertiary education and researches particularly publication of researches and research citation of the public universities.

hypothesis H(1): in the context of malaysian public universities, R&D funds allocation is negatively related to the quality of tertiary education and researches particularly publication of researches and research citation.