Archive for July 1st, 2008
UP going down?
by Jesus Llanto
The University of the Philippines’ rankings in the top world universities has declined but UP officials said these do not reflect the current state of education in the university.
In 2007, UP landed in the bottom spot of Times Higher Education Supplement-Quacquarelli-Symonds (THES-QS) list of top 400 universities. UP ranked 398th, along with National Central University (Taiwan) and Sogang University (South Korea).UP landed on the 372nd and 299th spot of the THES-QS list in 2005 and 2006, respectively.
The THES ranking showed that UP is behind the universities of its neighbors like National University of Singapore (33rd), Malaysia’s Universiti Putra Malaysia (364th), and three Indonesian universities—Universitas Gadjah Mada (360th), Bandung Institute of Technology (369th), and University of Indonesia (395th).
THES, an annual study conducted by the London-based magazine, started in 2004. It used to be a supplement of The Times newspaper of London. (abs-cbnNews.com/Newsbreak)
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