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Checking drop in foreign students - ...... ....Dr Shafie was commenting on a report in StarEducation on Sunday that Malaysia currently has only about 23,000 foreign students, a far cry from the ministry’s target of 50,000 by this year.

The report also highlighted that other countries in the region, such as Singapore and China have come from behind and are now attracting a higher number of foreign students. Singapore, for instance, has an enrolment of 50,000 foreign students while China, from where most of our foreign students come from, recorded a foreign student enrolment of about 77,715 in 2003. ......

Dr Shafie said his ministry had initiated several new schemes to attract more foreign students, such as allowing part-time employment.

“The permission for them to work is among the measures we have put in place to remain competitive,” he said.


You can read the full report here....

You know what? This is the first time I agree with the measures of our government (no la, I agree to some others as well la).

We SURELY cannot compete with Singapore and China in terms of QUALITY of education. We only have MICKEY MOUSE universities in Malaysia. The best that we have are Uni of Nothingham and University of Monash. I am sorry, but both are SECOND CLASS universities. Don't believe me? Let me tell you what they have got over here in Singapore - Chicago Business School, MIT (they have a link program with NUS!), Carnegie Miller (if I can spell this correctly...), INSEAD (from France), Warwick (UK) etc etc who are TOP universities.

(I feel shy......)

We certainly cannot compete in pricing. NOONE can be cheaper than China.....and those who go China (I guess mostly HKer or Taiwanese or Singaporean)

So we have to find our way, one way is certainly allowing them to work. Now, they can work in the KTV legally and they need not RUN when there is 'operasi'. What a brilliant idea!!!! Can reduce social crime somemore....

I know this post sounds sarcastic, but I really think that allowing them to work is a good idea. Because we really cannot compete on other fronts......unless we make them all study Islamic Studies....which is our strength. At lease we are more moderate in Islamic teaching than some other reported countries....

I wonder when will the Government wake up and improve our education system....sigh.....sighh

Junior

posted by Junior @ 10:02 AM