A steady rise for Malaysian varsities

The Government has put in place initiatives to strengthen the country's higher education system, which is showing signs of improvements and soaring upwords.

Early one morning last week, I received a call from Prof Datuk Seri Dr Zaini Ujang, who is the Education Ministry’s secretary-general II.

“Sir, I have good news,” he said.

“Our national higher education system ranking has improved from 28th to 27th spot out of 50 nations according to the Universitas 21 Ranking of National Higher Education Systems (also known as U21)”.

“And, we are ranked 21st when it was adjusted for GDP and levels of development, ahead of Singapore, Japan, Germany and Hong Kong”.

I said: “That’s good. I believe we can still do better.” “I agree, sir,” said Zaini.

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