Malaysia Signs MoU With Japan in Higher Education

SEPANG (Selangor,Malaysia), July 6 (Bernama) -- Malaysia and Japan on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of higher education. The MoU was signed by Minister of Higher Education Mohamed Khaled Nordin and Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, Hirofumi Hirano, at a hotel here. The Ministry of Higher Education said in a statement the MoU was aimed at promoting technical cooperation in several areas and includes exchange of academic staff, teachers, trainees, experts and students, information on the system and structure of higher education, reforms and new educational technologies and any other areas of cooperation that are mutually beneficial. As of December last year, a total of 1,689 Malaysians were studying in Japan, whereby 1,641 of them were government-sponsored and the remaining 48 were privately-sponsored. Also, 86 Japanese are studying in Malaysia, whereby 28 of them are in public higher education institutions and the remaining 58 in private higher education institutions. Mohamed Khaled and Hirano earlier had a closed-door meeting. Hirano arrived Friday on a two-day visit in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of Malaysia's "Look East" Policy of emulating work ethics and business techniques from Japan. -- BERNAMA