Published: Thursday June 18, 2009 MYT 2:49:00 PM
India, Malaysia set up taskforce on higher education
KUALA LUMPUR: India and Malaysia have decided to set up a taskforce to address all issues on higher education between the two countries, India’s Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday.
He said the taskforce would present a report within three months to the ministers in charge of higher education in India and Malaysia for them to decide on the next course of action.
The Indian minister said the issues to be taken up by the taskforce included those related to the recognition of medical degrees.
“The idea behind this (taskforce) ... we would like a free flow of students from one system to another ... from one educational institution to another between India and Malaysia,” he told reporters after opening a seminar on “Open and Distance Learning: Bridging the Knowledge Divide” at the Asia e University (AeU) here.
“A range of issues ... how to settle it ... to resolve it. This is something for the taskforce to recommend to us,” said Kapil Sibal, whose portfolio covers primary, secondary and tertiary education and vocational training as well as human capital development.
Kapil Sibal said India, with about 350 universities and 20,000 colleges, was already an educational hub while Malaysia too was aiming to be an educational hub and was now attracting students from many countries.
“We would like to take benefit of this open-door policy of Malaysia’s and hope to bring in institutes here and at the same time explore the possibility of having foreign universities in India,” he said.
On his meeting with Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam on Wednesday, Kapil Sibal said India and Malaysia had decided to set up a working group to explore possible collaboration in the areas of skills development and vocational training.
He said Malaysia had tremendous experience in these two areas of human resource development and India would like to learn from Malaysia. -- Bernama
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