According to the 2010 ranking of best universities in the world, produced by Shanghai University, the first Tunisian university, namely, that of Sousse has a disreputable place, finishing in 6719th globally. That's the least we can say unworthy of a country that wants to be at the forefront, if not emerging, at least at the level of Arab and African countries in the field of education and higher education. Worse, Tunisia is far behind Egypt Morocco and Algeria and more importantly it is overtaken by Libya and Mauritania!
At first glance, there's plenty to fall over backwards or falling from the sky because it affects our national pride, but to see it more closely once the surprise past, we realize said that the ranking is the least we can say unfairly because of the criteria adopted. Indeed, it is based solely on criteria of exact science and research ignores the efforts of training or technological innovations or the humanities. Why
our direct competitors, namely the Arab and African have they upgraded? This is certainly not based on the most critical criterion in the classification established by Shanghai University, namely, the number of Nobel Prize winners among former students and researchers from each university, but certainly account Given a second test, no less importantly, to say the number of publications in the assets of their researchers.
But beware of hasty conclusions! As stated by Prof. Hamed Ben Dhia: "In fact, our universities are served by old habits by our researchers who instead of mention their home university, in their publications generally indicate either the name of the laboratory or research unit to which they belong or the name of the institution within which they work. However, our production is fairly good as evidenced by the system that inventories annually Scopus scientific publications worldwide. In fact, Tunisia is ranked among the top 5 countries across the MENA region and throughout Africa with 2,500 scientific papers per year. Therefore, our researchers are expected to further enhance their products and especially to express their feelings of belonging to their respective universities as it is in the visibility of our national scientific community. "
However, our interest to show more humility and perseverance on the path of restructuring our educational system in general to aspire to align ourselves with international standards, while avoiding the copy and paste . About reforms, all recent presidential decisions relating to basic education and those on higher education are very reassuring about the future of the school and university Tunisian although the national educational system needs more bolder reforms, particularly in evaluation skills.
Source: Journal of Time - September 17, 2010 |
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