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英国教育论文When Quality Is Absent, Meritocracy Matters Not: Educationis 
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Prof Khoo Kay Kim's answer was a shocking one. Coming from someone who has committed almost all his life towards greater education for Malaysians, his words when met last "I don't think that I can teach anymore," said Khoo who quit teaching three years ago.

"Our students these days are not the same as in the past. Their quality is way below par," added the historian whose disappointment was obvious.

Even top scoring students have no idea what they are learning, most of them just memorize instead of understanding the subjects, lamented the professor emeritus at University Malaya's history department.

"So, what is all the debate about meritocracy now?" he pointed out. "It is just a matter of statistics, like how many points one scores... but it does not tell anything."

After almost 40 years in the university, Khoo knows well what he was talking about. To him, there is a larger issue to address, rather than just who and how many students from which ethnic group should qualify to enter government-run public universities.

"The question is, are we producing quality students? If our graduates are not capable of competing at international level or making themselves marketable, let's not talk about meritocracy for now."

Reinvent system
Khoo is right. Some 40,000 graduates, including master's degree holders are currently jobless. Competition is extremely stiff that, on average, 300 to 400 candidates are vying for the same job in the private sector, and even more for the public sector.

"Rather," he continued, "we need to reinvent our education system."

He contrasted the situation today with that of University Malaya's earlier days, when a mere 25 percent of its students who had come in as freshies would walk up the stage to receive their degree on convocation day, four or five years later.

But now, the passing rate in the university is so high, exceeding 90 percent, said Khoo."This is even more apparent in the private universities because failing the students means shying away potential customers," he added.

University education now tends to produce as many graduates as possible, perhaps to meet the demand in job markets, especially in the last decade which saw Malaysia's economy grow by an average of eight percent a year till it was thrown off track by the 1997 economic crisis, he said.

Unexposed lecturers
While he admitted that it was good to see the growing number of public and private universities, poor monitoring on the part of the government has led to the decline in quality.

According to Khoo, if students refused to read either textbooks (which should prepare them for examinations) or other materials, it will reduce their analytical skills almost next to nothing and lecturers should also share the blame.

"Some of our lecturers are not even exposed to the outside world. They come to the university just to teach and hardly do any research or write any journal.

"How could these lecturers prepare their students to compete on a global scale if they themselves were never exposed internationally?" asked Khoo.

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