FOUR HUNDRED INDONESIAN LECTURERS STUDYING OVERSEAS

Pamekasan, E Java, Nov 21 (ANTARA) - Four hundred senior Indonesian lecturers are attending an academic qualification upgrading program at a number of universities overseas, a lecturer said.

"In East Java, 90 lecturers have a chance to attend a study program overseas, including one from Madura," Gazali, lecturer of Madura University (Unira)'s School of Economics, said here on Saturday.

Gazali, one of the lecturers who got the chance to study overseas, said that the 400 lecturers who were given the opportunity to study abroad were pursuing a doctorate study program.

He said that they were attending the academic qualification upgrading programs in eight countries, namely Australia, the United States, France, the Netherlands, Britain, Japan, Canada and New Zealand.