Reports on NUS Ranking Misleading
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How low can NUS gets!
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Subject: Reports on NUS ranking misleading
From: BlueThunder (BLUEWOLF425)
To: (ALL)
DateTime: 04/07/2005 22:27:41
While I myself is an alumni of NUS, I find it disgusting that
newspapers and even NUS itself has chosen to mislead the public about
its
ranking. NUS and newspapers have repeatedly emphasized the fact
that the rankings are done by the reputable The Times newspaper. This
is FALSE, and I'm sick of reading it in the newspaper everyday.The
Times
Higher Education Supplement is NOT a supplement or
an insert of the Times newspaper. It is NOT part of the Times
newspaper. Although it started as a supplement to the Times
newspaper, it became
A STANDALONE TITLE almost A HUNDRED YEARS ago ! THES is
currently published by TSL Education, and is obviously nowhere as
influential or reputable as the Times newspaper. In fact, THES is not
even a
widely read paper and you wouldn't find it in most
news stands in UK. The ONLY relation THES have with the Times
newspaper
is that they are both owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International.
The
Times newspaper do have yearly universities
ranking, but they are only restricted to British universities. I'm
happy that NUS has made great progress over the years, but misleading
the
public by claiming that they have been highly ranked
by a reputable newspaper is not something very honorable. Frankly,
I'm
quite ashamed that my alma mater have to resort to this to boost
their
profile.You can find information about TSL here.
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Why are we so obsessed with ranking?
Must we be first in everything? - best airport, best port etc
Frankly I don't care cos we go local U as it is cheaper.
Each university has its strength, some may be good in Sc, others in humanities, hard to compare & no way we can beat the top uni. in US, Eng. etc.
We have already done away with Sec. school ranking cos too stressful for teachers & students -
You should write into the ST forum page and ask NUS for an explanation. Frankly i'm quite alarmed that the administration didn't clarify their facts before making this boo-boo.
Are you sure it's unrelated? For such a big issue, people usually don't mess around though. -
tsk tsk tsk
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PAP sucks 
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Now airport n sia can't even get to the top liao, many countries make trumendous improvement n will overtake us in a few years for the flight industriesOriginally posted by gerrykoh:Why are we so obsessed with ranking?
Must we be first in everything? - best airport, best port etc
Frankly I don't care cos we go local U as it is cheaper.
Each university has its strength, some may be good in Sc, others in humanities, hard to compare & no way we can beat the top uni. in US, Eng. etc.
We have already done away with Sec. school ranking cos too stressful for teachers & students -
NUS? "pui!!"
top 10 my arse i can easily name you more than 10 universities which have a better reputation than NUS
harvard
yale
princeton
stanford
carnegie mellon
cambridge
oxford
U penn
dartmouth
cornell
brown
ecole poyltechnique
new york U
northwestern U
enough? -
Sure a not so few university ahead of NUS only in the world?
How about:
Toyko Univesity
Beijing University
Qinghua University -
While I agree that the ranking is indeed misleading. May I ask.. how can you rank a university? What will you base it upon? Unlike Pri schools or Sec schools where the results are clear and thus easy to rank... Universities produce graduates on such a wide scale in varying degrees of success that makes it difficult to How can we determine how successful a university is? No. of graduates? average wage of graduates after 6 months?