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30 PER CENT JUMP IN MAINLAND CHINESE STUDENTS IN MALAYSIA
By Tham Choy Lin
BEIJING, Dec 26 (Bernama) -- Mainland Chinese students in Malaysia are set to surpass 10,000 this year from a 30 per cent rise in new arrivals, Malaysian embassy education counselor Chuah Chee Meng said.
About 4,000 new enrolments were estimated between January and October
pushing the total to 9,081 compared to 5,962 last year.
Three quarters of the new students were registered with private
institutions, Chuah told Bernama.
"The overall figure for the year will be higher because of one more intake
in December and I predict the number will go up to 10,300," he said.
The increase is attributed to the global financial crisis, a stronger yuan
and the stronger promotion of Malaysia as a preferred destination for education
both by the embassy's education unit and the more than a dozen Malaysian private
education institutions in China which offer twinning programme and foundation
courses.
Chuah said more Chinese youngsters were looking to Malaysia because they
could obtain quality education at an affordable cost and this had attracted even
fresh graduates to take up post-graduate or other courses in Malaysia.
"With the recession, many Chinese students are worried they cannot get
part-time jobs to support high expenses if they go to developed countries. Also,
there are many students here who cannot get places in their own universities
because of the tough competition," he said.
Chinese nationals are the second biggest group of foreign students in
Malaysia, after Indonesians.
Between January and October this year, the number of Chinese students in
Malaysian government universities rose sharply to 2,189 from 598 last year while
those in private institutions totalled 6,892 compared with 5,364 in 2007.
Chuah said that during the year, promotions and seminars were held in second
tier cities -- Zhengzhou and Luoyang in Henan province, Kunming in Yunnan
province, Xiamen in Fujian province, Nanchang in Jiangxi province and Changsha
in Hunan province.
"We also organised sessions with parents and their main concerns are about
security, accommodation, bona fide colleges and whther their children can obtain
government jobs when they return home," he said.
At least 75 per cent of the Chinese students in Malaysia are taking first
degrees and 10 per cent are pursuing postgraduate studies.
Many are majoring in hotel management, marketing, business studies, design
and accounting.
The education unit in the embassy was established in 2003 and was expanded
with the addition an education attache several months ago.
BEIJING, Dec 26 (Bernama) -- Mainland Chinese students in Malaysia are set to surpass 10,000 this year from a 30 per cent rise in new arrivals, Malaysian embassy education counselor Chuah Chee Meng said.
About 4,000 new enrolments were estimated between January and October
pushing the total to 9,081 compared to 5,962 last year.
Three quarters of the new students were registered with private
institutions, Chuah told Bernama.
"The overall figure for the year will be higher because of one more intake
in December and I predict the number will go up to 10,300," he said.
The increase is attributed to the global financial crisis, a stronger yuan
and the stronger promotion of Malaysia as a preferred destination for education
both by the embassy's education unit and the more than a dozen Malaysian private
education institutions in China which offer twinning programme and foundation
courses.
Chuah said more Chinese youngsters were looking to Malaysia because they
could obtain quality education at an affordable cost and this had attracted even
fresh graduates to take up post-graduate or other courses in Malaysia.
"With the recession, many Chinese students are worried they cannot get
part-time jobs to support high expenses if they go to developed countries. Also,
there are many students here who cannot get places in their own universities
because of the tough competition," he said.
Chinese nationals are the second biggest group of foreign students in
Malaysia, after Indonesians.
Between January and October this year, the number of Chinese students in
Malaysian government universities rose sharply to 2,189 from 598 last year while
those in private institutions totalled 6,892 compared with 5,364 in 2007.
Chuah said that during the year, promotions and seminars were held in second
tier cities -- Zhengzhou and Luoyang in Henan province, Kunming in Yunnan
province, Xiamen in Fujian province, Nanchang in Jiangxi province and Changsha
in Hunan province.
"We also organised sessions with parents and their main concerns are about
security, accommodation, bona fide colleges and whther their children can obtain
government jobs when they return home," he said.
At least 75 per cent of the Chinese students in Malaysia are taking first
degrees and 10 per cent are pursuing postgraduate studies.
Many are majoring in hotel management, marketing, business studies, design
and accounting.
The education unit in the embassy was established in 2003 and was expanded
with the addition an education attache several months ago.
