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MALAYSIA: Foreign students will boost economy
19.10.2010
The Higher Education Ministry is confident that the targeted increased intake of foreign students will help spur the economy, said its minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin.He said the ministry is targeting intake of 150,000 foreign students into Malaysia’s public and private higher learning institutions by 2015.
To achieve the target, he said, four clusters of key courses for the first degree and the Master’s degree would be focused on for foreign students.
“The four courses are Islamic banking, Hospitality and Tourism, Engineering and Health Sciences,” he said after witnessing the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Help International Corporation Bhd and Seri Alam Properties Sdn Bhd.
Mohamed Khaled said the target, if met, would not only help turn Malaysia into a regional education hub, but could also increase the nation’s per capita income.
“A foreign student is estimated to spend RM30,000 annually on his studies here and if there are 150,000 of them, imagine the amount we can earn.”
Mohamed Khaled said this year, 80,000 foreign students enrolled themselves at 47 private higher learning institutions and 20 public ones, the number being above the ministry’s target of 70,000.
He also commended Help University College for being the first private institution to introduce vocational and technical courses with the opening of its fourth camps in Pasir Gudang soon.
The MoU was signed between the institution’s president Datuk Dr Paul Chan and UMLand group chief executive officer Pee Tong Lim. Also present was the corporation’s chief executive officer Datin Chan-Low Kam Yoke.
The campus in Pasir Gudang will be built in four phases and is expected to be ready in 2013.
Help Institute now has about 11,000 students, mostly foreigners, for the Bachelor’s degree programmes.
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