Local varsities fail rankings test again


The Times list of 400 many appropriate universities has dual Singapore institutions in a tip 100.
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has unsuccessful for a second time in a quarrel to have it in to a Times list of a world's tip 400 universities.
Not a singular internal university appears in a Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013, expelled today.
In contrast, dual Singapore institutions are among a tip 100, with a National University of Singapore (NUS) during 29th place as well as a Nanyang Technological University during 86th.
The tip 10 are seven US-based as well as three UK-based universities, with a California Institute of Technology hidden a show during 95.5 points.
NUS got 77.5 points as well as Nanyang 59.4 points.
The usually alternative Southeast Asian university in a list is Thailand's King Mongkut's University of Technology, during 351st place.
The Times Higher Education website says universities were judged according to thirteen performance indicators from 5 areas: teaching, research, citations, attention income as well as general outlook.
It says universities were excluded from a list if they:
  • did not learn undergraduates
  • taught usually "a singular narrow subject"
  • produced less than 1,000 investigate articles in between 2006 as well as 2010, or 200 a year.
'Our concentration is upon research'
In an immediate response, Minister of Higher Education Khaled Nordin said Malaysia's absence from a list could be because a country forayed i! n to inv estigate usually recently.
"Times used an analysis of over 10 years," he told FMT. "Our concentration upon investigate in universities usually proposed in 2007. So, many of our universities didn't participate."
Khaled did not prove whether he was disappointed with a results, though he spoke about internal universities' appearance in a QS World University Rankings 2012/2013, that uses five-year data.
Universiti Malaya as well as Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia came in during 156th as well as 261st place in a QS list.
According to a QS website, universities are assessed in 6 areas: educational reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, citations per faculty as well as general faculty as well as tyro ratio.
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