title: Malaysian higher education : an international perspective
creator: Anuwar Ali, 
subject: LC5800 Distance education
subject: LG Individual institutions (Asia. Africa)
description: No one can deny that the world is more interdependent, interlinked and integrated with the  development of information technology. This in turn has facilitated the flow of knowledge,  information and people as never before. Higher education is expected to contribute and become far  more internationalised to integrate intercultural elements in its teaching, research and services. This  paper summarises the initiatives taken by Open University Malaysia (OUM) to market its  programmes at the international level. In the initial phase, the university is targeting its neighbouring  country, Indonesia as well as countries in the Middle East, particularly Yemen, Syria and Saudi  Arabia.  The first programmeme to be offered will be at the Masters level in Universitas Riau (UNRI),  Pekanbaru, Indonesia, and in the University of Science and Technology, Yemen (USTY), followed by  the undergraduate programmes at Universitas Padjadjaran (UNPAD), Bandung, Indonesia. In the near  future, the scope will be widened to include both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the  universities concerned. This paper outlines the issues, challenges and the strategic plans to develop  and ensure the success of OUM’s Internationalisation agenda, an agenda which is aligned to the  Malaysian Government’s policy of developing Malaysia as a Centre of Excellence in education and  training. (Abstract by author)
date: 2005-11-11
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
identifier: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/692/1/malaysian_higher_anuwar.pdf
identifier:   Anuwar Ali,   (2005) Malaysian higher education : an international perspective.  In: ICDE International Conference, November 19 - 23, 2005, New Delhi, India.     
relation: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/692/