goodbye mapua, welcome malayan university?

[yebo]

no offence to Mapua studes and grads, but is not that this name change to "malayan university" a bit too presumptuous? at a time when philippine universities are being ranked at the LOWEST in terms of quality of education in asia (my alma mater, UP included), they dare call mapua "malayan"??? are they trying to insinuate that mapua is now the premier university for the malay race (filipinos and malaysians, and even parts of indonesia included)? just wait till the malaysians, whose universities have long ago overtaken the philippines, hear about this! "malayan university" will be the laughing stock of all time!

instead of a name change, why not try to recover its lost prestige first by once again becoming one of the finest universities in asia? Mapua was once one of the best, but sad to say today it is not. even UP-diliman ranks at the bottom 100 of the 500 asian universities listed. and Mapua's reaction is "let's change our name to malayan!" DUH!

[hagiber]

are they trying to insinuate that mapua is now the premier university for the malay race (filipinos and malaysians, and even parts of indonesia included)?

Hindi naman siguro yun yung intention nila pero if they can achieve that then why not ? They probably have more funds than UP anyway... Ganun din siguro yung reasong nang name nang University of Asia and the Pacific... mas wide range yan kesa sa Malay people lang