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yuti — May 30, 2009 / 10:42 am
Why people always care about ranking? In one side, ranking can stimulate competitiveness, but in the other hand, how can something different be treated equally? In university ranking case for example, people always debating on how Indonesian universities can enter the top 100. Almost all of the resources was dedicated to improve the rankings, but by the end, protest was addressed due to high tuition fee. Maybe, I was too cynical. International ranking relate with national competitiveness. By assuming university as a knowledge producer, national competitiveness will increase when universities are productive in paper publications, pilot plant etc.
In some papers this relation seems true in the first world. University and industry have a good relation so knowledge and funding flow can run well, but in country like Indonesia, I kind of doubt it. It is true that a lot of scientist have relation with the industry but the flow is mostly human, rather money or knowledge (soft). I am thinking of a model that is more dynamic for Indonesia situation. Rather use the Korean model with their chaebol, I prefer using Taiwan with their Small-Medium Enterprises. How we choose our model will affect parameters used to evaluate the success/failure.
So why we care so much about rankings? Built your own rankings and be proud of it!
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