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ranting on nus ranking
The Times Higher Education Supplement's World University Rankings 2007 was out on November 8 and this year NUS' ranking took a dip from 19 to 33. Blame it on scoring revamp? Or should we be humble about it and keep working harder? It is funny to see that when people praise us, we quote them; when people say not so nice things, we wave them off. Zaobao published something interesting that Straits Times didn't.
Ranking drops of course won't feel that nice. But when I asked a friend from Business School what she feels about it, she said what can we do about it? Change school meh?
On the other hand, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) squeezes itself from 33 last year to 18. Not a bad idea, I heard their canteens serve nice food.
Quote: "Blame it on scoring revamp? Or should we be humble about it and keep working harder? It is funny to see that when people praise us, we quote them; when people say not so nice things, we wave them off".
Hmm... Yeah, things are funny that way in Singapore.
One good example of this would be how MM Lee recently cited, during some kind of talk, international reports which said good things about Singapore to show how Singapore is prospering under the PAP Government...
But at the same event, when someone questioned him about Singapore's level of press freedom, citing the Reporters Sans Frontiers' report about how Singapore is ranked 146 out of 168 nations for press freedom, MM Lee dismisses it and also said something about how he doesn't measure himself by the standards of external international organisations...
Hmm... Perhaps MM Lee listens to Gold 90.5FM ("only hear the good stuff")...