Narrow KPIs delimit the potentials of academia. The story of three sons.
Generic KPI oriented performance is ruining Malaysian Higher Education (Original piece Written March 15, 2018). A thought on how academicians being reduced to paper churning authors and grants hoarders due to narrow Key Performance Indices (KPI): There was a man, who had three sons. He hoped all his sons grow up to be useful people. Once they reach adulthood, he said to them "Go out on a journey for a year and be a useful person". The first son immediately went off to the world and tried to be useful. The second son, hesitated and asked the father, "what do you mean to be useful? Can you be more specific?". The father said " Go and find 10,000 poor people". So he went off to find poor people who are in need. The Third son was still thinking, and said," I need to be more specific. How do you help poor people?". The father said, "If you have wealth, you can help poor people". "Ill do my best to find wealth" So off ...