The decline in global rankings of Malaysia’s public universities does not reflect the overall situation for local tertiary education, said Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh, adding that emphasis should be placed on the entire learning process rather than rankings alone.
The Second Education Minister said this in response to the failure of local public universities to make the list in the annual Times Higher Education (THE) Top 100 Universities under 50 years old.
“Rankings don’t mean everything, although we can improve (our performance). We must be realistic when aiming for a position.
Malaysia failed to get on the list of the prestigious THE rankings now into its second year. In the first rankings list in 2012, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) was ranked 98th.“If we are too focused on climbing the ranks, we may neglect the teaching and studying process,” Idris (pic) told a press conference at Universiti Putra Malaysia in Serdang today.
The bad showing comes hot on the heels of Putrajaya's claim that Malaysia has one of the best education systems in the world – better than United States, Britain and Germany.
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