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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