Top Spot for International School

A research conducted by ISC Research had identified Malaysia as one of the eight investment spot for international schools.

The research company that track global international school market said that the market in Malaysia is set to grow rapidly as the government has removed the restriction for Malaysian to attend International School.

Currently Malaysia has 112 international schools, in increase by 26 from the 2000. In 2009, the number was 67 with 23,000 and currently the number has increased to 43,000 children.

The other countries mentioned in the reports were Hong Kong, South Korea, Indonesia, Qatar and Singapore.

The report includes the key demographic data, an overview of the expatriate trends and historical data of the international school market.

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PRE U at sunway

My daughter is doing her O level. The natural path for her is to go for A level or pre-U. She expressed interest to do either political science or economy.

What I am doing now is to collect as much information, blog it for easy future reference.

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UM Plus U of Wales Becomes IUMW

The premier university of Malaya and University of Wales of UK have agreed to team up to form a new private university known as IUMW - International University Malaya and Wales.

According to UM vice chancellor, the collaboration will provide more opportunities for Malaysian to pursue higher education. The current university of Malaya's population is about 13,000 with half of it pursuing postgraduate study.

The government objective was to have 60,000 PhD holders by 2020 and the current number is only 25,000.

Last May the ministry had made the announcement that public universities are allowed to team up with private universities to generate income necessary to reduce dependence on government funding.

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