Universiti Malaya: "The True State of Affairs"

As highlighted in the earlier post, the vice-chancellors of Universiti Malaya (UM) and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) will be having a meeting with QS Quacquarelli Symmonds founder, Nunzio Quacquarelli on the November 21st. The event is held just before QS annual World MBA Tour in Kuala Lumpur to be held at the Westin from 5pm to 9pm on Tuesday, 22nd November.

However, thanks to a post and a scanned leaflet by LONE, I understand that there is actually a Forum being held at Balai Ungku Aziz in UM on November 21st @ 2.30pm, conducted by Mr Quacquarelli himself. The main title for the event is "The THES Top 200 World Class Universities", and subtitled "UM in the THES 2005 International Ranking: The True State of Affairs".


Unfortunately attendance is by invitation only, and this blogger has a day job which has booked him for an important presentation on Monday and will be unable to gatecrash the event.

But to anyone out there who has an invitation or is able to gatecrash, do keep me updated as to what was "discussed" during the forum.

However, based on the publicity leaflet alone, I'm prepared to put a little of my hard earned cash on the table to wager that QS, being a profit oriented commercial entity and its founder, will unlikely attempt a "Al Gore", making his host and possibly future periuk nasi lose face. The vice-chancellor of UM will likely have another opportunity to have someone sing "praises" on his new clothes. If only he looks into the mirror to see "The True State of Affairs".