Ignored
and Sacrificed by Global Universities Ranking Standards
By MIKOspace
Singapore Universities are acknowledged as among the very best in Asia and the world
institutions of higher learning and research.
A great
University is committed to organizational excellence at all levels and in all
the Departments providing professional support to sustaining excellence in
teaching, research and professional service to the Community and Society at
large. Through its research and educational programs, as well as various campus
activities, a great University must also develop leaders for all sectors of the
society and prepare them to address the challenges facing the community and
nation.
The Ministry of Education unveiled in 1997 and defined the
specific outcome of Singapore Education System for Universities. According to our Ministry of
Education, the Desired Outcomes establish a common purpose for educators, drive our
policies and programmes, and allow us to determine how well our education
system is doing.
The person who is schooled in the Singapore
Education system embodies the Desired Outcomes of Education. He has a good
sense of self-awareness, a sound moral compass, and the necessary skills and
knowledge to take on challenges of the future. He is responsible to his family,
community and nation.
He appreciates the beauty of the world around him,
possesses a healthy mind and body, and has a zest for life. In sum, he is:
- a confident person who has a strong sense of right and wrong, is adaptable and resilient, knows himself, is discerning in judgment, thinks independently and critically, and communicates effectively;
- a self-directed learner who takes responsibility for his own learning, who questions, reflects and perseveres in the pursuit of learning;
- an active contributor who is able to work effectively in teams, exercises initiative, takes calculated risks, is innovative and strives for excellence; and,
- a concerned citizen who is rooted to Singapore, has a strong civic consciousness, is informed, and takes an active role in bettering the lives of others around him.
Our
Universities students would be further strengthened in their belief in Singapore, and
develop a profound understanding of what matters to Singapore in the global
context. Our universities curriculum make explicit what we aspire to develop in
our young so as to empower their strong foundations for them to thrive and
achieve success in life as active and contributing members of Singapore.
NONE OF THE OUTCOMES of our Education
System was addressed by the Global Universities Ranking vendors. And they were therefore NEVER measured or
evaluated among and with the other Universities.
It is baffling why
Singapore Universities would want so desperately to subscribe to dubious
Universities ranking standards of dubious excellence. It is even more disturbing that the Ministry of
Education would have allow them to expend public funds to woo and court the
Global Universities Rankers when it was so blatantly clear that NONE of their Criteria
even remotely measure or evaluate our own Outcomes of Education.
Singapore
Universities should no longer participate in any Global Universities Ranking
scams, no matter which other “famous” Universities had been included. All Marketing collaterals making references
to the bogus University Rankings should also be cleansed of the lie and return
our Institution to our Authentic levels of transparency and integrity.
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