Only 1/3 Malaysia University Lecturers Have PhDs
Written by WTJ on November 27, 2008 – 1:07 pm -Shortage of PhDs to be lecturers in tertiary education has been a long problem. There are many cocky Malaysian lecturers who think they are the mighty in the university. Guess what? These people only hold Masters Degree.
Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education came up with a programme to select candidates to pursue Doctor of Philosophy degree. The programme is known as the Ministry of Higher Education Scholarship. Deputy Minister Datuk Idris Haron said the programme is inspired by the enquiry of Datuk Lee Chee Leong in the criteria of how the university lecturers are selected. Deputy Minister set the target of achieving 60% of the lecturers hold PhDs by 2013. He said currently only 31.6% of lecturers had PhD qualification.
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November 27th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
If you want to be accurate about it, it’s less than 1/3 of Malaysian university lecturers have a PHD.
The sad thing is that there are people who got their PHD’s for reasons which baffle me. A PHD is supposed to be at least 3 years of pure academic research, usually on a novel idea or one that improves on the one before. I know people who have gotten their PHD’s in Malaysia from writing critical reviews of previous journals which doesn’t sum up the quality of a doctorate.
I blame the fact that honours degrees these days in Malaysia aren’t up to standard. People aren’t trained to do pure research as it’s supposed to be from Honours onwards. How can people expect to work on a higher level research then?