malaysiakini and Malaysia's Universities' FREE FALL

It should surprise no one that our universities have again failed to make it into the list of the top 200 Universities in the world.
According to the malaysiakini article M'sian varsities out of Top 200 again, it seems that our universities have become too engrossed with space tourism and have "gone into 'black hole'".
The basic reason for the continuous decline over the past 20 years is that we have allowed politics and a lack of meritocracy to become a culture in the education system; from the method of appointing and promoting academic staff to the way we operate our school systems.
This is a practical solution to avoid this annual criticism by the concerned citizens - we must ban such reports unless they write more favourable reports about our universities.
After all we are a third-world nation at heart - how can any sane person expect us to compete with the developed nations?
Let's aim to be among the top 300 universities just to make sure our universities do not become relegated to degree mills status.
That is why I encourage more Malaysians to try to transfer to the Singapore school system where the target is for about 40% to enter university.