By MIKOspace
Should we Risk Our Brand of
Honesty, Trust-worthiness, Reliability, Integrity, Probity and Incorruptibility?
I
have an unshakable belief in mySingapore’s Destiny and Place in the World. Our reputation for honesty, reliability and
trust-worthiness over half a century has earned us our rightful place among the
few nations of integrity, probity and incorruptibility. Our high international rankings attest to
these, whether it is with Transparency International, the Political &
Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) or the World Bank.
SO WHY
ARE OUR UNIVERSITIES Participating in Bogus Ranking Standards of Dubious
Excellence?
Singapore
Universities have secured top placing, with NTU ranked as the world's best
young universities, according to London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), one of
three major international university ranking systems.
An
Eminent Professor has called the QS rankings “a Fraud
on the public.” Another Eminent
Professor said: “QS simply doesn’t do as good a job as the other rankers that
are using multiple indicators”.
“University world rankings are pointless”, said University
College London’s President, “because there is no
definition of the ‘ideal’ university”.
An European Union
Research Centre concluded that the Rankings was not statistically robust … and highly
unreliable for inter-University comparisons. Their different Ranking Methodologies are also
fragile in their ranking approaches and often inconsistent in its treatment of
objective data and subjective variables extracted from surveys.
World Universities Rankings contain serious fundamental
conceptual and methodological flaws to render Word Universities Rankings
practically useless, irrelevant and immaterial for any serious educational
policy purpose.
In fact, the
United Nations Education agency, UNESCO, has challenged the validity and
reliability of University Rankings:
“Global university rankings are of dubious value, are underpinned by questionable social science,
arbitrarily privilege particular indicators, and use shallow proxies as correlates of
quality.”
Singapore universities should no longer
participate in any “Global Universities Ranking” Fraud. Singapore
universities should maintain our Integrity and be honestly professional, and
reject using the spurious World Universities Rankings to position our great
Institutions of Higher Learning because of their lack of validity and
reliability in Methodology and questionable measures of learning and research excellence.
We must continue to
uphold the honest Truth before the World and ourselves, not because of laws and
penalties but because this is WHO WE ARE. Our High
Standards of integrity and honesty reflects the Society we want to live in, and
the values we uphold and hold ourselves to embrace.
Kopi Level - Green
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They have brought in a lot of fakes and bogus talents to work here and to replace Sinkies.
ReplyDeleteThey are going to bring in foreign judges to judge in out international courts.
You sure they still believe in our brand of honesty, trustworthiness, probity, incorruptibility etc etc? They now believe in unknown foreigners.
are we so desperate with such low self-esteem that we must get foreigners and outsiders to tell us how good our universities are? and when they use bogus standards, we are also stupid enough to pay them so that they can "stroke" us and make us feel good ... like the "fake love" my mama-san girls can make any bru feel lah.
ReplyDeletewhen are we waking up, man??
ya, man.
ReplyDeleteyou pretend, I also pretend ...
say U love me, I say I luv U ...
buy me a Martell or a Jar of Tiger, dear;
of course .. tell me again PLEASSSE ..
"U Love Me...".
U are the Best, my Man.
Top of the Top, forever.
U so BIG, my Man ..
Luv U forever .. la;
More tips lah ...
(back to 2nd line above ...)
seow garment conned by seow angmoh. and they think they very smart. money well spent.
ReplyDeleteIt is commonly understood in the Market Place that any publicity for any in the Entertainment and Vice Industries is good. It makes artistes and their services wellknown and popular.
ReplyDeleteDont know how true the Above Claim is, got to ask those Public Relation Specialists. MP Baey should be consulted for his expert view. Even then, it is going to be very difficult not to feel improper or rather impropriety when chicanery is used to generate publicity for whatever motive.
Singapore associated with Fraud...!?
ReplyDeleteWhat a fall downwards after 50 years building up a TOP Brand.
50 years to be No 1; just 5 to become No 1 from the bottom, lah.
Someone better explain to Singaporeans HOW this happened?
WHO's responsible?
WHAT Gov going to do about it?