Dr M hopes Japanese universities will set up branches in Malaysia
Published on: Tuesday, November 06, 2018
TOKYO: Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Monday expressed hope to see Japanese universities having their branches in Malaysia to enable Malaysian students to not only be exposed to Japan's education system, but also to learn its culture.He said Malaysia had sent many students to Japan and they contributed much to Malaysia, but the rising costs had made it very difficult to send more students."We thought the best way is to have Japanese universities in Malaysia. We have been striving to get Japanese universities' branches in Malaysia. Unfortunately, the law doesn't allow them (for now).
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"As you know, we have Australian and American universities in Malaysia, but no Japanese university," he said in his commemorative speech after being conferred an Honorary Doctorate of the Doctor of Philosophy by Tsukuba University at its Tokyo campus here on Monday.The doctorate was conferred by the university's President Prof Kyosuke Nagata.Dr Mahathir is on a three-day working visit to Japan. He said it was important to have Japanese universities in Malaysia so that Malaysians could learn not just the knowledge, but also the Japanese character or value system and working ethics."Under the Look East Policy, we sent lots of students to study here, and even to work here in order to learn about Japanese work ethics and value system. Without value system, we never make progress even with good education. We have also introduced Japanese system of education at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
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"Coming to Japan, of course, used to be quite cheap, but when the yen value was pushed up by three times, it became very expensive to send students here," he said.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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