System is far from being world-class

WHEN cracking a joke, there should be a limit. Otherwise it may sound stupid. Chan Weng Kit’s letter, “Our education is world-class” (The Star, March 4), refers.

When the writer says Univer­sity College London’s ranking (seventh overall) against Universiti Malaya (50th) is “barely a whisker above”, I laughed. On a serious note, the writer seems to use highly superficial means to claim our education is world-class. Having a comprehensive syllabus (no matter how advanced it is) alone does not mean our education system is a high quality system, let alone a world-class system.