Kuala Lampur, Dec. 16 -- Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin is reported to have said that he wanted good policies under his ministry's previous administration to continue to be implemented.

I am hoping those good policies include not to continue with doing well in the ranking games because, as Prof Wing Lam said, education is not a sport.

According to the provost and chief executive officer at University of Reading Malaysia, we should not compare universities with football teams competing in the higher education equivalent of the English Premier League. There are far more important things we need our universities to focus on.

We have been told, many times over, not to be obsessed with rankings.

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