Jamil Salmi worked at the World Bank for over 25 years and I always love his presentations as they're always concrete with simple yet powerful analogy and pictures. This time was no difference ka. Simply fantastic and insightful.
He touched on the meaning of 'world-class universities', which could be defined by 'self declaration', 'reputation', and 'rankings'. He used his three overlapping circles to explain his thoughts about it, saying that the cores must be 'top graduates', 'dynamic knowledge', and 'leading-edge research'. To reach those three core results, universities need talents, governance (with management autonomy and freedom from civil service rules), and resources. He showed stats to compare endowment funds of leading universities and GDP of Thailand along with many others (113 countries have GDP lower than Harvard endowment).
On IZN, he said it could serve as an accelerating factor for development and leadership is important to inspire communities with its new vision, yet, it needs to have proper duration of leadership terms to make it work.
Jamil cautioned the audience about 'rankings', pointing out that 'it's totally useless' (against multidisciplinary research, pointless to focus on academic reputation......my own version na ka). He urged that we focus more on 'benchmarking' which would heighten quality of higher education.
He said universities must dare to be different with niche programs, to challenge themselves with the sense of urgency, and to have their strategic planning with managerial innovations and the use of benchmarking.
I just got a link to his blog from my former colleague:
in case some of you are interested to learn more about his perspective and insights ka.
To be continued kaaa!
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