KUALA LUMPUR: Local universities are still not ready to participate in the Times Higher Education ranking of global universities, said Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin.
“The largest component in the Times' criteria for ranking is research and citations.
“We know that if we participate, our universities will not make it into the ranking,” he told reporters after attending the National Academic Awards ceremony here yesterday.
He noted that local universities were only elevated to research universities in 2007 with five to eight years needed for their work to mature and be used as citations.
“Our universities are not established to play the ranking game. We do not want them to compromise on teaching over research,” he added.
He also said a lot of money was needed for the lengthy and tedious process, citing Singapore's universities which spend about RM900mil annually on research.
“For the first time under our Budget, RM60mil has been allocated to Universiti Malaya to conduct high impact research work,” he said.
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