29% of Malaysian Youth in Universities
August 28th, 2007 by aizatto
Was reading through a Star article about Universities being given “more autonomy to transform the face of education“, and then in the second last paragraph it said:
Earlier, Abdullah said the country had done fairly well in delivering higher education, with 29% of Malaysians aged between 18 and 23 in universities.
Wow, somehow that seems incredibly low to me. This could be for various reasons. One could be due to the distinction between a college and a university, which might constitute for the low number.
Well with the increasing rise of “University Colleges” would these students be counted into the statistics?
Or when these University Colleges, get granted University status, will there be a spike in the number of Malaysians attending University?
I wonder whats the reason for the low number.
Note: 95% of statistics are lies, but this wouldn’t be something you’d want to be telling the truth about!
kaeru Says
It’s all how you interpret the figures. To increase your “low” percentage, we could just lower the bar for entrance. Then you would get 70% and have graduates that can’t write essays or 80% drop out rate.
Literacy and math skills in my opinion are more useful metrics. Achieving 100% literacy would be a better statistic to aim for.
Aug 28th, 2007 at 1:33 pm