Malacca university going for foreign links
ALOR GAJAH: The University College of Islam Melaka (UCIM) has embarked on a series of collaborations with foreign universities in a bid to attract foreign students.
Vice-chancellor Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Mohd Yusoff Hashim said they were targeting to enrol 500 foreign students by 2019 through these collaborations.
Among the universities which had signed bilaterial ties and memorandums of understandings with it were Universiti Srivijaya, Indonesia; College of Management Technology, Sri Lanka; International Peace University, South Africa; Universiti Brunei Darussalam; Ballarat University, Australia; Islamic University, Baghdad; Egypt's University Al-Azhar; and University Al-Bayt of Jordan.
He said the internationalisation of UCIM was also in line with the Higher Education Strategic Plan aimed at making Malaysia an international education hub.
"The presence of a small number of foreign students now is a testament of our quality education syllabus which is internationally recognised," he said, adding that it recently enrolled 12 engineering students from Japan's Meiji University.
During the visit, Meiji University's Student Internationalization Centre director Professor Dr Usomu Ono said the programmes offered in UCIM, especially in the area of biotechnology, was the main reason for the cooperation.
