As Idris Jala rambles on about subsidy and belt tightening, he forgot the leakage of subsidising foreign students. What gives? In classic salesman's parlance. "Tell your would-be customer what they need to know only.Don't tell them what they do not need to know!"
So, now Nordin spills the beans!
"Starting July this year, foreign students in Malaysia will have to pay their course fees in full because the government no longer subsidise them," Higher Education Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin said.
Then,he put out an assurance as well saying local students will continued to be subsidised.
'This would mean that the amount of fees to be paid by foreign students would be the same as those imposed by private institutions of higher learning,' he added.
'I would like to assure the people that we have no plan to abolish the subsidy for local students in public higher learning institutions'.
"For foreign students, however, we no longer allow the provision of any kind of subsidy," he told reporters after presenting the letter of approval to Inti International University here today.
Mohamed Khaled said previously, some public higher learning institutions offered subsidised fees to attract international students.[You got to be joking seriously!]
"However, these universities have now grown in strength and are able to attract international students on their own without the subsidy. These students need to pay the fees in full," he said.
On the elevation of Inti University College to Inti International University, Mohamed Khaled said the institution fulfilled the criteria to be elevated into a university. [ I guess this is the right thing to do if they have actually achieve such standards. [Was an international academic audit been done on Inti to ensure enduring standards?]
He said that the recognition given to the university would help make Malaysia a higher education hub.
Inti International University, located in Nilai, Negri Sembilan, was set up in 1998 and has 5,500 students.
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