people don't general look at the niches of the uni in qsn.
instead, they look at the fame of the school, at the
macroperspective.
even if oxford/ princeton are inferior to NUS in terms of
Chinese studies, society tends to view the brand-name "oxford"
above everything else.
Bargain hen admits that NUS is fucked up, cannot see the
'Churchill' in that student who didn't score As.
<Recently, Education Minister Ng Eng Hen said
that it was time for Singapore's education system to evolve, to
recognise students who learn in different
ways.>
NUS is superior only in some people's minds. It has not produce
any Nobel laureates.
Perhaps MOE should hire Nobel laureates to work in NUS to boost
it's status, like the way ping pong girls were hired from PRC.
