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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Primary and secondary school education standards need to improve, particularly so in bridging the gap between urban and rural areas... at the higher education level, we continue to face challenges mainly in the area of graduates' ability to be employed: poor education system, says blueprint is the answer

The National University of Singapore topped the list of Asian countries, but the University of Malaya was placed at the 32nd spot. Other local universities in the top 100 include Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in the 56th place, Universiti Sains Malaysia (57), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (66) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (76).
Malaysian public universities last month were left out of the latest ranking of the annual Times Higher Education (THE) Top 100 Universities under 50 years old.
Four Asian universities were ranked among the top 10 of the world’s young universities, including South Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology which took the top spot, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (3), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (4) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (5).
https://my.news.yahoo.com/minister-admits-poor-education-system-says-blueprint-solve-043524103.html

According to a recent research that was conducted by JobStreet and published in April 2014, it showed that a majority of fresh graduates were struggling to make ends meet (approximately 77% who said that their salary does not leave them with any savings after spending on essentials such as car and study loans). The average pay across industries for fresh grads appear to be RM2,100 per month, but 60% of the respondents said that they have to ask for higher-than-average salaries of at least RM3,500 (30% even expected to be paid as high as RM6,500) in order to cope with the increased cost of living. How is the quality of our graduates? Education system need to be improved?

The Highest and Lowest Paid Fresh Graduates
https://my.news.yahoo.com/photos/highest-lowest-paid-fresh-graduates-photo-031348499.html