ONLY FIVE PERCENT QUOTA FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS

PORT DICKSON (Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia) Sept 22 (Bernama) -- Higher
Education Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin has given an assurance that Malaysian
universities and colleges allocated only a five per cent quota for foreign students.

Speaking after the launch of the Association of National Higher Education
Officers of Peninsular Malaysia at the Port Dickson Polytechnic Thursday, he
emphasised that this quota covered first degrees and that strategic fields such
as medicine and engineering were not offered.

Priority was always given to local students and there was no issue of
limited places due to a flood of foreign students, he said in commenting on
concerns by certain parties that the increasing numbers of foreign students
might displace locals.

He said their concern may have stemmed from seeing large numbers of foreign
students at these institutions who were actually pursuing post-graduate
studies, for which there were no quotas.