NILAI, May 9 (Bernama) — The ranking of local universities at the international level is not the main consideration in accelerating the country’s higher education towards excellence, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today.
He said this was because most of the criteria and the yardstick used to gauge the position of local universities in the world ranking did not meet the country’s aspiration.
“The more important thing for the country’s interest is to ensure excellence of academicians, programmes and the institutions meet the three ‘R’ aspects, namely relevance, referred and respect.
“…we have to find a…
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