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Were Singaporean
Students and Professors Sacrificed for NTU Top Rankings? Singaporeans are
Collateral Damage for Top Universities Rankings. Was it Worth it?
“NTU heads QS' list of top 50 universities
…”, according to London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), one of three
international universities ranking systems.
For the sake of meeting the Criteria of a Bogus Ranking
Standard of Dubious Excellence, it appears
that NOTHING was spared so as to
Obtain a Brand of Questionable
Authenticity.
Let’s examine 3 of the QS’ 5 Criteria here.
International Students Ratio (5%)
In 2013, 28% of NTU’s 23,484 undergraduates
or 6,575 were foreigners. Why 28%
foreign students? Canadian universities, for example, averaged only 8.9%
foreign students in 2009.
Some NTU “rejects” even went on to Ivy League
Universities overseas. Many understandably could not afford the costly overseas
education. A mere tweaking of the arbitrary cut-off points for NTU Admissions
would easily have absorbed 6,500 more Singapore students. The cutoff point
appeared deliberate in order to have less local students, in favour of foreign studnets
in order for NTU to excel in the foreign students criteria of the QS Ranking
criteria.
Were more than 6,500 Singaporean students, or between 1,700-1,900
annually, denied NTU admission into various 3-year and 4-year Undergraduate
Programs, over 2009-2013, so that NTU could excel in the International Students
Ratio criteria of the QS Ranking?
Totally Unacceptable is also the Fact that at least 40% of the “rejected”
students would have completed National Service in their citizenship duty to
serve and defend this Country, and only to find upon NS completion that a Public Institution in our Beloved Country
had “sold them out” for a Foreign bogus ranking standard of dubious excellence!
What is Baffling is
the fact that millions of Singapore funds are used to pay for the thousands of “free”
scholarships for most foreign students to study in NTU and other local
Universities.
WHY THEN IS THE
NEED FOR A BOGUS RANKING AUTHENTICATION to attract Foreign Students to study “free”
here?
International Staff Ratio (5%)
Singaporean Professors in NTU were similarly
discriminated for a better QS Ranking.
In a purge of Professors under the pretext of Tenure Evaluation from
2007-2010, mostly Singaporean Professors, including many already qualified
for Tenure previously, were dismissed. And when the dusts settled in 2010 after the
Purge, Singapore citizens including new
citizens formed only 44% of the faculty; 56% of NTU faculty are foreigners
from 56 countries worldwide including Singapore PRs.
Professors who are Singaporeans were clearly discriminated
and sacrificed so that NTU could excel in the International Staff Ratio
criteria of the QS Ranking.
Faculty/Student Ratio (20%)
Following the Purge of Singaporean
Professors, many more foreigners were engaged as NTU Professors. These are mostly
freshly-graduated PhDs, and others lacking the acclaims, experience and
research citations of those Singaporean Professors who were “terminated” by
NTU. Their increased numbers were however necessary in order to meet the QS’
Faculty/Student Ratio.
While the first 3 Criteria may account for just
30% of the QS Criteria, the sacrifice of Singaporeans as
students and Professors appeared necessary as the tipping points for NTU to
excel and top the bogus standard of dubious excellence.
United Nation Education agency UNESCO had
also challenged the validity and reliability of University Rankings like QS,
viewing them “of dubious value” that “use shallow proxies as correlates of
quality.” Really Sad, ALL THE SACRIFICES BY SINGAPOREANS ACTUALLY
FOR NOTHING AUTHENTIC OR OF SUBSTANCE, REALLY.
For the Sake of Authenticity and Integrity, Singapore
universities should no longer participate in any “Global Universities Ranking”
scams.
Singapore’s presence in the Global Universities Rankings invariable
lends our hard-earned Reputation for Authenticity and Honesty to mask their
lack of credibility, validity and reliability. We owe it to our Founding Generations never to
cheapen our Reputation, painstakingly built over the past 50 years, in any
manner.
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