Malaysia to offer 5% of places for medical, dentistry, pharmacy courses to foreign students


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 05 Apr 2017

Najib chairing the 7th Global Science and Inovation Advisory Council Annual Meeting in New Delhi n Monday.

NEW DELHI: The Malaysian Government has agreed to offer 5% of the places at its public higher learning institutions (IPTA) for medical, dentistry and pharmacy courses to foreign students from this year.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the decision was made in line with the liberalisation of education in IPTAs, parallel to the country's endeavour to become an education hub.

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