Malaysia Ranked 36th In Education Sector

IPOH (Perak, Malaysia), June 1 (Bernama) -- Malaysia ranked 36th out of 48 countries evaluated in the higher education sector by Universitas 21 (U21), a leading global network of research-intensive universities. Malaysian Higher Education Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin said the research had taking into account the overall performance of the sector, including the education system itself, access as well as enrolment of women at universities. "Recently, there was a rating done by studying our education system as a whole. Our country was ranked 36th...this was the first ever study done by U21," he told reporters after launching the Polytechnic Reskilling and Upskilling programme here, Thursday. According to the U21 website, the research done by the researchers from University of Melbourne last May, had chosen 48 countries with different levels of economic development in Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America and Middle East/Africa. Based on the research, Malaysia scored 50.5 per cent overall in the areas evaluated which included resources, environment, connectivity and output. The United States, Sweden, Canada, Finland and Denmark were the top five while Italy, Hungary and Slovakia were the bottom three in the ranking list. In a related development, Mohamed Khaled also congratulated University of Malaya (ranked 35th) and National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, ranked 58th) for their good rankings in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings. -- BERNAMA