NUS placed eighth in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, which was released on Wednesday (Jun 28). ...
QS senior vice president Ben Sowter said an additional metric that considers a combination of employment rate and the achievements of alumni gave NUS an edge in this year’s ranking.
“Singaporean universities are doing a fantastic job of preparing their students for work,” he told CNA’s Singapore Tonight on Wednesday. “Employers have been recognising that for some time.”
This year's ranking introduced three new metrics, which are commitment to sustainability, international research networks, and employment after graduation. CNA
This is excellent news for Singapore, for NUS and for its graduates. The employability of NUS graduates by employers could dispel the belief or narrative by some foreign HR agencies and recruiters that NUS graduates lack the required skills or knowledge and they have to look overseas, look to third world countries for employable graduates. If this ranking is marketable, then the first choice of employment must be NUS graduates and not funny graduates with funny degrees from funny universities overseas.
If this is true, then the cries of unemployed or under employed local PMETs must be misplaced. Or maybe our local PMETs are from funny universities with funny degrees, so unemployable. Or maybe this ranking is new, and the findings are based on recent criteria and the impact has yet to be felt by NUS graduates. Or maybe it is only applicable to NUS graduates, not to other local top universities' graduates.
Unemployed and under employed local PMETs can stop driving taxis and start applying for real jobs that pay real money and with job security, CPF to pay for HDB mortgages.
Crossed my fingers, things are going to get better for NUS graduates. Just hope the ranking and findings are for real and HR will start to look up to NUS graduates, and hopefully also take a glance at graduates from other world class local universities.
And hopefully, many hopefully, in 10 to 20 years time, the top management of companies here will have Singaporean faces. But for now funny faces from third world countries with funny degrees are deemed highly desirable and employable. Even local big companies, including GLCs are helmed by foreigners or new citizens with foreign degrees.
What do you think? Ranking means anything? Can rankings translate into good job opportunities for the graduates? I remember local universities have been ranked very highly for many years but, but....
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RB only the university believed in the ranking in reality employers don't give a shit
Just like calculation of inflation, they make it so complicated to understand, that it becomes something we just listen, cannot comprehend, cannot dispute because they are the ones that can dispense the truth and it becomes the norm.
If France's inflation is really low at 4.5%, why are the French now rioting for days now? Germany is going to follow soon.
Nancy Pelosi, where are you? Are you enjoying the 'sight to behold' in Paris right now? It would be better if the show is held in New York. Not impossible, if inflation is slowing, but the reality does not fit the fabrication, unless USA citizens keep on buying the propaganda.
There is much more to it than just riots erupting over the police shooting of a 17 year old in Paris. Things are not as simple as what they want to make it out to be, by just trying to brainwash those who do not see beneath the surface. Why are there no riots over police shootings of blacks in the USA?
They are just trying to calm it down by focusing on the shooting, because it matters if what is happening in Paris were to spread to Germany and other EU countries if they blame it on cost of living and inflation, the real inflation figures uncensored.
By the way, can someone make sense of the talk that the USA growth is strong, jobs creation is doing great, amid the slowing economy. In my simple mind it is a contradictory statement of sorts.
If American economy is so good, why is Yellen begging to visit Beijing to meet Xi?
NUS is ranked No.8 best university in the world. Singaporeans should be proud of this high status. Maybe soon the NUS graduates can take over from the highly paid imports from India. Can or not?
Didn't they told us a university education is no longer that important. So, proud of the high status for what? To be great chefs or michelin hawkers at best.
Nowadays the world means the western an Anglo Saxons's world. It may includes reluctantly European universities. All universities in China, Russia, etc with more advance technologies are purposely excluded. The rankings are fake, NUS shouldn't waste so much money on fake recognition. Don't pretend, the interest may be to justify charging higher tuition fee.
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