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In his press statement to announce his decision to step down as Prime Minister next March, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi spoke of the initiatives to “regain our country’s competitiveness” which are “necessary to enable our nation and our society to face the challenges that the world has in store for us”.
But in actual fact, under his five-year premiership, one domino after another of our national and international competitiveness has been collapsing one after another. Two weeks ago, one such falling domino was Malaysia’s ranking on the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index 2008 which plunged to No. 47 placing, a fall of ten places from No. 37 in 2007. Another domino has collapsed today when it is revealed that for the second consecutive year, Malaysia has fallen completely out of THES-QS 2008 World Top 200 Universities – further testimony of the country’s deteriorating competitiveness. Two years ago, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Malaya (UM) were listed at the tail-end of the Top 200 in the THES-QS 2006 ranking, and I had repeatedly warned both in and out of Parliament that Malaysia risked being pushed out of the 200 Top Universities ranking unless there was the political will to check brain-drain and restore meritocracy and excellence to Malaysian academia. It gives me no satisfaction but extreme sadness to see my dire prediction come true – in two consecutive years in succession. READ MORE HERE: http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2008/10/09/malaysia-out-of-thes-top-200-universities-for-second-consecutive-year-another-fall-of-domino/
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Our standard in education is worty to write congretulateri massages to our royalti like the one by University of Tun Hussien Onn wroted not to long ago.