Malaysia QS Raking

Five Malaysian Universities had continued to improve their QS Ranking.

According to the posting made in the Star Newspaper, fivr Malaysian Research Universities had their QS Ranking improved. The universities are UM, UPM, UKM, USM and UTM.

UM was 24, UPM 36, UKM 43, and USM 46.

The posting is given below..

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MEAN MONTHLY INCOME BY STATES

In 2017, the MEAN income of Malaysia are expected to rise. However, in 2018, the economy is expected to ease.

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BOOST OF MALAYSIAN UNIVERSITIES' RANKING

QS ranking reviews 425 universities from 17 Asian nations. So this is an Asian affairs and used by some Malaysian universities. It uses 10 indicators for the ranking:
1. Academic Reputation
2. Employers Reputation
3. Faculty/ Student ratio
4. Papers per Faculty
5. Citations per paper
6. International Faculty Ration
7. Staff with PhD
8. International Student's Ratio
9. Inbound students exchange
10. Outbound Student's Exchange.

According to the director of QS Research,  Malaysian Universities have shown their best performance.

Here is given in the paper...

The Star 22 Oct 2017

The UN case...
1. In 2018, UM improved its ranking from 27 to 24.
2, The main improvement are in the Papers per Faculty and Citation. This is done by focusing on the quality rather than quantity.

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Overseas Scholarship Issues

About 700 students, the selected top scorers of SPM last year may not see their dreams, as they are still awaiting for the scholarship.

star 21 Jan 2016

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Malaysian QS Ranking

The QS World University Ranking for 2015/16 shows the position of Malaysian Universities. The number 1 in Malaysia is still Universiti Malaya, ranked 146th in the QS Ranking.

Here is the summary:

UM                    2015/ 146               2014/151
USM                         / 289                      /309
UTM                         / 303                      / 294
UKM                         / 312                      / 259
UPM                          / 331                      / 376
UiTM                         / 701+                    /651+


The QS ranking is based on 4 pillars, the research, teaching, employability and internationisation. The measurements are based on the following areas: academic reputation at 40%, employers reputation at 10%, faculty students ration at 20%,  citation 20%, international student at 5% and international faculty at 5%.

The Star 15 Sep 2014

    

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The iCGPA is Ready to Roll Out

A new grading system will be used. To start with, the following universities are used for the pilot projects:

- UKM
- UiTM
- UniMAS Pahang, Terrengganu and Kelantan

The new grading system, enables the graduated students to have a complete report cards that include the traditional academic performance plus their skill sets. The skills include the leadership, entrepreneurial skill, social and thinking skills.

   

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MEDICAL EDUCATION

pick your choice:

1. Doctor


2. Dentistry


3. Pharmacy


Place of study offered at various counties including Russia, India, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Indonesia and China.

Star 18 Dec 2014

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World Ranking

There is only four Malaysian Universities that had submitted the worlds ranking for 2014/2015. However the the better universities, UM and UKM had not submitted. Thus none of the Malaysian universities are ranked to even the top 400 universities in the world.

UM VC said that the reasons were:
1. UM has not completed building up the publication lists.
2. It has poor financial standing.

The main issues are, Malaysian Universities score very low scores in the reputation and citations.
These two criteria are heavily weighted.

The new ranking was released in Sept 2014 and non of the Malaysian Universities were even in the top 400.

The ranking were based on 13 elements across 5 categories , which are
- industrial outcomes
- teaching
- research
- citation
- international outlook.

The top rank are:
- California Inst of Technology.
- Harvard
- Oxford
- Stanford
- Cambridge
- Massachusetts Inst of Technology
- Princeton  

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Online Learning through MOOCs

The Malaysian Government has taken the initiative to launch MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses for Public Universities. The MOOCs is being used by universities worldwide, but only in Malaysia that the implementation was started by the government.

The objectives of implementing MOOCs by the government are:

1. To transform learning and teaching method in the IPTA,

2.  To improve the quality and standard.

3. To support life long learning

4. To reach to the massive population

To get it started, four IPTA..., UPM, UKM, UiTM and UniMAS Sarawak will be implementing four compulsory courses. The courses are:

a. Islamic and Asian Civilization.
b. Ethic Relationship
c. Entrepreneurship
d. ICT competency.

We hope the project will be successful, unlike the previous projects such as the Smart School and School based Assessment.

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Malaysian Universities Require a Pass in English

The Minister of Education had made a surprised announcement, the students of Malaysian Public Universities are required to pass the English Language.

This seem to be the series of Changes attempted by the government, some were aborted within a short period of less than 2 years while some may fizzle after some time. The examples are plenty, such as the SMART School and the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English. The latest was the School Based Assessment.  

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Currently, the students have to pass 3 compulsory subjects, BM, Malaysian Studies and Islamic Paper. When the new required gets its approval, the students have to pass the four subjects.

The announcement was received with apprehension by some groups.They are concerned about how the new directive will be implemented and whether it will a burden to the students 

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