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SDG ranking - did USM get it right?

ANOTHER type of ranking has now surfaced. A new “product line” as it were, by a familiar commercial name, made (in)famous through similar activity based prominently on research and publication. The latter is now losing “steam” as a quality concept to define what education is all about “beyond the te...

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Main Author: Abdul Razak, Dzulkifli
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Published: Sun Media Corporation Sdn Bhd 2019
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LB2300 Higher Education
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/71982/1/71982_SDG%20ranking.pdf
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https://www.thesundaily.my/opinion/sdg-ranking--did-usm-get-it-right-EB773024
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spelling my.iium.irep.719822020-03-16T08:35:11Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/71982/ SDG ranking - did USM get it right? Abdul Razak, Dzulkifli LB2300 Higher Education ANOTHER type of ranking has now surfaced. A new “product line” as it were, by a familiar commercial name, made (in)famous through similar activity based prominently on research and publication. The latter is now losing “steam” as a quality concept to define what education is all about “beyond the teaching and research focus of conventional rankings”. The current attempt is really a “Band-Aid” to include “societal impact” as the world plunged into so much problems and issues that put research and publication almost out of reach in the search for sustainable solutions to save humanity. In this context, USM has got it spot on when it opted for a “sustainability-led” university some 15 years ago as an outcome of a scenario plan conducted in 2005 with the assistance of prominent futurologist. Before that, in 2003, a bold tagline “The University in a Garden” was introduced and adopted to bring the sustainability message home to the USM community aligned to the sejahtera campus framework. Sun Media Corporation Sdn Bhd 2019-04-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/71982/1/71982_SDG%20ranking.pdf Abdul Razak, Dzulkifli (2019) SDG ranking - did USM get it right? The Sun Daily, 9 April 2019. https://www.thesundaily.my/opinion/sdg-ranking--did-usm-get-it-right-EB773024
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SDG ranking - did USM get it right?
description ANOTHER type of ranking has now surfaced. A new “product line” as it were, by a familiar commercial name, made (in)famous through similar activity based prominently on research and publication. The latter is now losing “steam” as a quality concept to define what education is all about “beyond the teaching and research focus of conventional rankings”. The current attempt is really a “Band-Aid” to include “societal impact” as the world plunged into so much problems and issues that put research and publication almost out of reach in the search for sustainable solutions to save humanity. In this context, USM has got it spot on when it opted for a “sustainability-led” university some 15 years ago as an outcome of a scenario plan conducted in 2005 with the assistance of prominent futurologist. Before that, in 2003, a bold tagline “The University in a Garden” was introduced and adopted to bring the sustainability message home to the USM community aligned to the sejahtera campus framework.
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url http://irep.iium.edu.my/71982/1/71982_SDG%20ranking.pdf
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https://www.thesundaily.my/opinion/sdg-ranking--did-usm-get-it-right-EB773024
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