tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post113081595952537627..comments2024-03-21T20:10:28.943+08:00Comments on EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA: Universiti Malaya VC: We Have Improved!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1161918759926634442006-10-27T11:12:00.000+08:002006-10-27T11:12:00.000+08:00Today is great day for UM, one more big hole in th...Today is great day for UM, one more big hole in the boat, the loosers rejoices and the so-called VC (she cares for her diabetes before all) has not managed to stop the expulsion of several skilled professors, of which authors of books in top US publishers and top national priority sectors. My friends, have no doubt about that, UM is performing a silent but powerful intellectual cleaning, the brains are removed, I mean the non-Bumi brains. Thanks notably to our dear DVC academic you is craving for power, money and sweeties. How could such a looser could be given the responsability to handle academe human resources, he has just removed a top publishing academe from UM, what does he wants for UM? indonesians, donkeys...<BR/>have no doubts about that: the present DVCs and VC are useless, and will continue the sinking. UM is gone my friends, that is a fact, UM is dead.<BR/><BR/>BabaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1160428950001181082006-10-10T05:22:00.000+08:002006-10-10T05:22:00.000+08:00Honestly speaking, if not much effort is taken on ...Honestly speaking, if not much effort is taken on improving the administration work in the university itself, the ranking status will keep on dropping. Currently the dropping is getting further, lagging UKM already.<BR/>Something must be done by University Vice Chancellor, especially on policies. If no changes in policies, even by changing thousands of new VC, the university will eventually get out of the list.<BR/>As for exam question leaking, it has been quite common. Nothing much can be done. It is mainly due to education system today tends to couch students being an machine for exam. Studying without deeply understand the underlying concept has become common among student in MALAYSIA, especially engineering field. It is also for this reason, MALAYSIA will never achieve break through in techology.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1160116021271521962006-10-06T14:27:00.000+08:002006-10-06T14:27:00.000+08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1131140716682314222005-11-05T05:45:00.000+08:002005-11-05T05:45:00.000+08:00Being doomed is not enough. They are continously d...Being doomed is not enough. They are continously dooming it and even dare to resort to cheap stupid tricks to persuade the public and themselves that they are in a better position hence mission accomplished for now. <BR/>I would think it is time to put them on the chopping block. Starting with the VC himself. He has a lot to answer for. The way he is running the University is simply unacceptable. <BR/><BR/>This is only the surface of the administration. I really wonder how many shady practises they have in the university itself. I heard things like ranging from unfair promotions to unethical practises like privillege students given exams material in their so called 'exam review'. So if these are not reason enough to do something then my advise to the students who willing to listen, get out of UM fast.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1130896651305634972005-11-02T09:57:00.000+08:002005-11-02T09:57:00.000+08:00Thank you for your explanation about the internati...Thank you for your explanation about the international student and faculty mix-up from last year's tables. Good Lord - what has become of Malaysia! :-( At this rate, our local universities are dooomed!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1130867770604430912005-11-02T01:56:00.000+08:002005-11-02T01:56:00.000+08:00Ohh i see, so that the VC UM only knows how to giv...Ohh i see, so that the VC UM only knows how to give precriptions/medicines and does not know how anything about statictics and simple mathematics. So perhaps we should forgive him for being so ignorance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1130864128471170032005-11-02T00:55:00.000+08:002005-11-02T00:55:00.000+08:00replying 'off topic':VC UM is a doctor (dentist) i...replying 'off topic':<BR/><BR/>VC UM is a doctor (dentist) indeed, not some PhD holder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1130863503779659022005-11-02T00:45:00.000+08:002005-11-02T00:45:00.000+08:00Tony is right about the different 'normalization' ...Tony is right about the different 'normalization' standards used in 2005 versus 2004. Basically, Harvard scored 970 out of 1000 in the 2004 rankings. Every other school was normalized against Harvard - you times whatever score you have with 1000 / 970. In the 2005 rankings, Harvard scored a lower 67.6 over 100. All other universities were normalized against this score. Without this normalization, UM's score is approximately 16 out of 100. So, on an absolute scale, UM hasn't really improved. But vis-a-vis Harvard's score, UM would have improved. But like Tony said because of the different measures used in 2005 versus 2004, it doesn't make sense to compared absolute scores. It makes more sense to compare relative positions between 2004 and 2005 and to compare scores WITHIN the same year. I'm curious as to whether the VC REALLY understands the statistics behind the rankings or if he's just trying to spin positive even though he knows about the technical aspects underlying the ranking system.Kian Minghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12615270889115130547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1130862547358854212005-11-02T00:29:00.000+08:002005-11-02T00:29:00.000+08:00Referring to MYC’s type of people (particularly th...Referring to MYC’s type of people (particularly those who’re still living in denial): <BR/>extracted : "MYC is of the opinion that the criteria used by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) are more appropriate to measure the performance of universities in the West in line with the objectives of their establishment and functions."<BR/><BR/>oh wow! Extracted from the THES list are "Beijing University, CHINA, Tokyo University, JAPAN, National university of Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, Thailand.. etc.. " I never knew that their objectives, establishments and functions are in line with part of the "west" now? <BR/><BR/>Stop making immature, embarrassing, nonsense statements/excuses to further degrade ‘muka’ of other Malaysians. In particularly stop criticizing THES system but our own collapsing education system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1130848594005556722005-11-01T20:36:00.000+08:002005-11-01T20:36:00.000+08:00Well think about it like this... last year if THES...Well think about it like this... last year if THES did not screw up the International Student stuff, we wouldn't even MAKE the list, but this year we DID! Isn't that an imporvement? Let's all just pretend the celebrations for last year was actually for... this year. Problem solved, everybody goes back to Malaysia Boleh mode please.<BR/><BR/>I'm trying to be sarcastic by the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12123329.post-1130845411782425752005-11-01T19:43:00.000+08:002005-11-01T19:43:00.000+08:00Maybe it's time they put up banners that read: "UM...Maybe it's time they put up banners that read: "UM Masih Bertaraf Dunia, THES yg buat silap", followed by pictures of the administrators.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com