MALAYSIA HAS SOLID SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN FOREIGN UNIVERSITY BRANCH CAMPUSES

BY MARIANI DEWI BRANCH campuses of established western universities can be major prizes for emerging market higher education systems - but attracting these institutions is not easy, even for economically dynamic countries such as Malaysia. There are still only six branch campuses in this south-east Asian country. Over the past decade, two new branch campuses were set up: Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia, a branch of Britain's University of Newcastle was established in 2009. And this year, another UK institution, the University of Southampton, established a ...


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