Tuesday June 17, 2008
More students joining private institutions
By PRISCILLA DIELENBERG
GEORGE TOWN: The enrolment at private institutions of higher learning (IPTS) is increasing and almost at a 1:1 ratio with that of public institutions of higher learning (IPTA), said Deputy Higher Education Minister Dr Hou Kok Chung.
He said the 2007 intake saw 167,788 students enrolling for undergraduate courses at IPTS and 190,265 at IPTA.
This, he said, was in contrast to the total number of 365,800 students who are now pursuing undergraduate courses at IPTS and 507,438 at the IPTA.
“The IPTS is getting stronger and more important,” he told a press conference yesterday after a meeting with senior executives of IPTS.
Dr Hou said the meeting was a forum to interact with representatives from IPTS to brief them on the latest matters involving the ministry’s policies, and to hear their issues and proposals.
Among the matters addressed yesterday were the on-going establishment audit of 200 IPTS, increasing the intake of genuine foreign students, the issue of lack of teaching staff, and the restructuring of IPTS.
Dr Hou said 17 out of 33 active IPTS in Penang had approval to take in foreign students, adding that there were now 571 foreign students out of the 34,634 IPTA and IPTS undergraduates in the state.
He said the target was to have 80,000 foreign students enrolled in higher education institutions throughout the nation by 2010.
“There are now about 50,000 foreign undergraduates, with about 34,000 of them enrolled in IPTS,” he said.
He said that while there was no quota on foreign students in IPTS, the percentage allowed in IPTA was 5%.
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