Tightening conditions for student and tourist visas is not the answer to curb the influx of foreign workers disguised as students, said an education group. The Malaysian Association of Private Colleges and Universities (MAPCU) said the way to strike at the issue is to take drastic action against the culprits.
Back in the old says, it is very common for lecturers in public colleges to opt out to teach in the private sector. But nowadays, the situation seemed to have reversed.
A new requirement that private colleges in Malaysia teach a compulsory course in Islamic and Asian Civilization Studies has been politically controversial. The move has been described as a step toward increasing "Islamization" of the country’s colleges, as The Malay Mail Online has reported, and some argue that the course should be an elective. Government officials reject the argument that non-Muslim students should not be required to take the course, saying that the course covers not only Islamic civilization but also Chinese, Indian and Malay civilizations, as the Star reported. The course is already required of all students in public institutions.
A private medical school in Malaysia, Allianze University College of Medical Sciences or AUCMS, is to expand to Europe with the purchase of a major university site in London.
An Islamic studies and Asian civilisation course, compulsory for students in Malaysia’s public universities, will also be mandatory for all private university students – including those at foreign branch campuses – from 1 September.
Educationists are caught in a minefield of conflicting opinion over the government's latest move to level the field between private and public universities.
Two private universities which have been running homegrown law courses have defended their programmes, saying they have not placed any misleading information in their advertisement.
Local private higher learning institutions (IPTS) in Sabah are in a dilemma over issues which are hampering efforts to promote Sabah as a hub of education excellence.
MCA Vice President, Gan Ping Sieu, urges the Ministry of Education to withdraw its decision to make Tamadun Islam a compulsory subject for all local students studying in private institutes of higher learning (IPTS) effective 1 September 2013.
An opposition MP today called on the education ministry to re-think its move to make Islamic Civilisation studies compulsory for local students in private universities.
Operators of private universities have voiced their concern over the move to make the Islamic and Asian Civilisation Studies (Titas) subject compulsory in private institutions of higher learning (IPTS).
The Malaysian Association of Private Colleges and Universities and 54 others last week obtained the green light from the High Court to quash a circular in relation to the new registration system for international students in local private institutions, writes Irdiani Mohd Salleh for New Straits Times.
The government of Malaysia has approved long-stalled plans by an organization representing the country's Chinese residents to establish its own private university.
Malaysia's education minister, Musa Mohamed, has announced that the country's laws requiring public universities to abide by an ethnic-quota system in their selection of students may be extended...
The Malaysian Association of Private Colleges and Universities and 54 others yesterday obtained the green light from the High Court to quash a circular in relation to the new registration system of international students in local private institutions.
The state government will study the need of the 13 private colleges before proper assistance are given to support the colleges in enhancing the state's higher learning education sector.
Adamson University topped the list of the 354 private schools which posted the highest increase in tuition at P131.19 per unit followed by Ateneo de Manila University at P118.25, Miriam College Foundation, P117.15, Dela Salle University, P106.20 and University of Sto. Tomas, P71.16, among others, that were allowed by the Commission on Higher Education.