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cation Statistics Agency Breaking down the numbers
ccording to the Higher Edu-

A(HESA), Malaysia is a suc-
cess story for British transnational
education. In 2014–15 it was the Claudia Civinini untangles some contradictory
country with the biggest number
of students enrolled in accredited claims about international education in Malaysia
UK institutions overseas. There are
a number of UK universities with
campuses in Malaysia, includ- were 63,625 international students Subjects studied by international
ing the University of Nottingham, enrolled in both private and public students in Malaysia (2012)
the University of Westminster, universities in Malaysia. The lat-
Newcastle University, the Uni- est data from Unesco, it follows, (excluding international students in exchange programmes)
versity of Reading, the University doesn’t really show an improve-
of Southampton and Heriot-Watt ment – actually quite the opposite.
University. Figures show that We contacted both Bernama
students are primarily enrolled and the Malaysian Ministry of
in undergraduate programmes Higher Education for a com-
– 71,925, compared to a total of ment, but received no reply by
6,640 in postgraduate taught or the time we went to press.
research degrees. Here is an overview of data
Looking at international stu- from UIS which shows where
dents, earlier this year a number international students in Malay-
of news outlets reported that sia come from, what they study
Malaysia had been ranked the and why they chose Malaysia.
ninth-preferred destination in the How many international
most recent Unesco figures. It students?
seems the information originated According to UIS, in 2014 there
from a press release by Malay- were 35,592 international students Courtesy Team Mendeley
sian Press Agency Bernama in enrolled in public and private
April 2016, which reported the higher education institution in
Malaysian Ministry of Higher Malaysia, excluding exchange stu-
Education as making this claim. dents. Figures from the Malaysian Courtesy UNESCO Institute for Statistics SUCCESS STORY Malaysia has the largest number of
Most reports highlighted this as Ministry of Education indicate that students enrolled in accredited UK universities overseas
an improvement from 2014, when in the same year there were 27,619
the media reported that Malaysia students enrolled in public higher language of instruction, as most sia, which was ranked 331 in
had been ranked twelfth. education institutions. courses, especially at postgradu- 2015 and is now 270. University
As we couldn’t find the original Where do they come from? ate level, are offered in English Malaya was 146 and now is 133 –
figures, we contacted the Unesco The ten most important source – which, the report notes, gives 27th in Asia. The only university
Institute for Statistics (UIS) countries, which provided 60 per fourth in order of preference with cost, with it being relatively cheap Malaysia an advantage over Thai- going down was Universiti Sains
directly. According to the UIS cent of students in 2014, were 16 per cent of students, whereas compared to traditional destina- land, where most undergraduate Malaysia, from 289 to 330. n
website, Malaysia was ranked (in order): Bangladesh, China, education was only favoured by tions such as the US and the UK. classes are offered in Thai.
eighth – but as a source country, Indonesia, Nigeria, India, Paki- 4 per cent. (See pie chart) Quality of life is also important, In the latest QS rankings, four See www.uis.unesco.org/
not a destination – for internation- stan, Kazakhstan, Yemen, Sri Why is Malaysia attractive? as the country is widely regarded major universities jumped up the Education/Pages/international-
ally mobile students. The latest Lanka and Libya. According to a report by as a comfortable place to live rankings, the most impressive student-flow-viz.aspx
UIS data (2014) shows that about What do they study? the Unesco Institute for Statis- and study. Another reason is the being Universiti Putra Malay- for more information
56,260 students from Malaysia UIS data from 2012 (the most tics, Higher Education in Asia:
pursued their higher education recent) shows that 60 per cent of Expanding Out, Expanding Up –
abroad. At the same time, 35,592 international students enrolled in The Rise of Graduate Education
international students enrolled Malaysian higher education insti- and University Research, there are
in Malaysian universities. As a tutions chose three broad fields five prominent factors to consider. Learn and Grow!
result, Malaysia was the 26th most of education: social sciences, One is cultural comfort, as
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mobile students. Also according manufacturing and construction; environment for students from a Hujiang, China’s leading e-learning platform with over 110 million
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Terry Philips surveys forty UK ESP providers to find Synopsis
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the majority thought it had been gians, Russians, Turks, Japanese music and film, and travel and
positive, but probably because of and Saudi Arabians being cited tourism. n Hujiang was not born to become a business.
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