This is another body-blow for a Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak just before a long-awaited 13thGeneral Elections as it highlights a disaster of Najib's national mutation bulletin to restore national unity, grasp value as well as regain international competitiveness from a slew of initiatives like a "1Malaysia, People First, Performance Now" programme, a Government Transformation Programme (GTP) with 7 National Key Result Areas (NKRAs) as well as a horde of impossible-to-remember acronyms from a alphabet-soup remodel measures .
In a latest release of a Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2012-2013 yesterday, for a second consecutive year, not a singular Malaysian university is enclosed in a 400 Top World University rankings.
Another acknowledgment of failure
THE World University Rankings 2012-2013 is a sad though salutary notice to Malaysians about a four-year disaster of Najib's mutation programmes, with Malaysia completely released from a Asia-Pacific phenomenon highlighted by a THE World University Rankings 2012-2013 upon a "the rise of Asia-Pacific Universities".
As Phil Baty, editor of THE World University Rankings commented:
"The balance of energy is shifting. Leading universities from across a Asia-Pacific region have seen poignant improvements in their positions in a 2012-2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, gaining belligerent upon a traditional powerhouses of a US as well as a UK.
"In a 2012-2013 table, tip institutions in China! , Singap ore, a Republic of Korea as well as Taiwan have risen up a rankings. Asia's Pacific neighbour, Australia, has additionally had a strong year, in contrast to a US as well as a UK: a infancy of a Anglo-American member in a tip 200, whilst still dominant in term of numbers, have mislaid ground."
The "rise of Asia-Pacific Universities" in universe higher preparation is highlighted by a following:
> Significant improvements for Australia as well as New Zealand. Australia's number a single institution, a University of Melbourne, has shot up from 37thin a rankings last year to inside a tip 30, at 28th. Australia gained an additional tip 200 university, with a University of Adelaide entering a tip 200 at 176th. Of Australia's 7 tip 200 representatives, six softened their positions. Eighteen Australian universities have been listed in a tip 400 Universities.
> China's dual tip 200 institutions both rose, with Peking University moving from 49thto 46thand Tsinghua jumping nineteen places from 71stto 52nd. Universities earmarked by a Chinese authorities for great things have been improving: Fudan University as well as Shanghai Jiao Tong University have both moved closer to a tip 200 whilst Nanjing has maintained a in front of in a 250-257 bracket.
> Singapore's dual tip 200 institutions saw fantastic success. The National University of Singapore moved from 40thto 29thand Nanyang Technological University rocketed up a list from 169thto 86th.
> Every a single of South Korea's institutions rose up a tables, with a most fantastic improvement by Seoul National University, which rose from 124 to 59th. The nation additionally gained a new representative in a tip 200 Yonsei University, entering at 183rd.
> Taiwan's flagship establishment as well as sole representative in a tip 200, a National Taiwan University, moves from 154th to corner 134th, whilst Hong Kong's institutions have held ! steady o r risen.
> Thailand is represented in a tip 400 universities with King Monghut's University of Technology in a 351-400 bracket.
Still dare to claim 'best' in a world
A total of 81 Asian-Pacific Universities made it into a THE 400 Top World University Ranking, though not a singular a single from Malaysia, as well as nonetheless you have a Deputy Prime Minister as well as Education Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin who recently claimed that Malaysia has a single of a most appropriate preparation systems in a universe better than United States, Britain as well as Germany.
If Malaysia is to have a possibility to partake in a "Rise of Asia-Pacific Universities as well as to be recognised internationally not usually as carrying universities in a tip 400 though even in a tip 100, then there contingency be an overhaul of a complete preparation system in a country, right from primary, secondary to university level.
This is usually probable if there is a new commencement for national renovation as well as regeneration in a shift of Federal government in Malaysia initial time in a nation's 56-year history in a 13GE.
Lim Kit Siang is a DAP MP for Ipoh Timur
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