A brief discussion on the development and changes of private universities in Malaysia in the past ten years

From 1998 to the present, Malaysian educational institutions have spent more than ten years maintaining close cooperation with outstanding private schools in Malaysia. We have witnessed the steady development and achievements of Malaysian private schools.

The first and most obvious development change in Malaysian private universities is that some private universities finally built their own university campuses after years of development.

From 1998, when Malaysian educational institutions began to engage in studying abroad in Malaysia, until 2002, there were only a few private universities in Malaysia with their own complete university campuses. These were basically relatively powerful Malaysians. Schools invested by corporate groups. For example, the Multimedia University of Malaysia invested and established by Telekom Malaysia, the University of Petronas built by Petronas, the University Tenaga Malaysia established by Energy Corporation of Malaysia, and the Kuala Lumpur established after the Malaysian Fidelity Group purchased the Malaysian Engineering Training Center. Construction University, Sunway College created by Sunway Group, etc. In addition, almost all private schools are small or rent campuses. When Malaysian educational institutions first sent students to study in Malaysia (from 1998 to 2002), a very troublesome thing they encountered was the students’ “disappointment and dissatisfaction” with the school building after they reported to school. These gave our enrollment and management at that time Publicity has also brought a lot of inconvenience, although we know that some schools have good teaching quality despite their small buildings.

Since 2002, INTI College has built its own very complete campus in Nilai New Town. Asia Pacific University of Science and Technology has also built its own independent campus in the Malaysian Multimedia Corridor. Limkokwing University also built its own in 2003. Independent university campus. UCSI International University, SEGi University, Taylor's University, etc. all built their own complete campuses in 2004, 2005, and 2008 respectively. The University of Nottingham Malaysia branch built a large-scale university campus in 2004 according to its own plans. Since then, almost all relatively powerful private universities in Malaysia have basically built their own large or small university campuses. This is a very gratifying development for private universities in Malaysia.

Secondly, Malaysian private universities are also very mature and experienced in serving and managing international students. After more than ten years of exploration and summary, every private school basically understands the needs of international students very well, and provides all international students with all issues from applying for admission, picking up and arranging accommodation at the airport, orientation activities, arranging new student registration, etc. The International Student Service Center of each private university plays a very good management and service role. In fact, these changes began in 2004. On the one hand, private schools have improved their own software and hardware facilities, and on the other hand, they have also continuously improved and improved their management and services for international students. This has played a very critical role in private schools' expansion of external enrollment and publicity. role.

What benefits Chinese students even more is that almost all people in the international student service centers of private universities sponsored by Chinese can speak fluent Chinese, which is undoubtedly very beneficial to freshmen who have just arrived in Malaysia and need help. At the same time, teachers from the International Student Service Center of private universities are responsible for solving almost any problems encountered by students in their daily life and study. This not only reassures the parents of students, but also satisfies the school’s admissions agency. If a student has any questions at any time, If you have any questions, you can contact the International Student Service Center as soon as possible to solve your students' problems in a timely manner. Facts have proved that the international service centers of almost all private universities are very responsible and attach great importance to the services of international students. The vice presidents of some universities in charge of international affairs personally take charge of the international student service centers to ensure that all students' problems are solved in a timely manner. , such as Universiti Construction Kuala Lumpur.

Moreover, many private universities have also opened offices in China, specifically to provide more convenient services to students and parents, and to better support domestic study abroad institutions in expanding their markets.

These private universities with offices in China include Universiti Kuala Lumpur, INTI University, UCSI International University, Limkokwing University, Asia Pacific University of Technology, etc.

Another very commendable change is the improvement and improvement of intensive English courses in private universities. After development and exploration from 1998 to 2003, all private universities have found that the strengthening and learning of English language is crucial for international students. It is also an indispensable condition for private universities to retain international students. Although Malaysia also has relatively professional English training institutions like ELS, many private universities have also sent students to ELS for English training. However, competition in the market and educational resources has caused all private schools to begin to attach importance to English language training and strengthening. In the early days, due to the shortage of international students and teachers, many private schools put all international students who enrolled at the same time together for English training. Up to now, English training in many private universities has relatively complete teaching planning and management. Students take language tests after admission, and are divided into different levels according to the test results, and planed level-by-level training and improvement are carried out. The current levels of English in private universities range from six levels to nine levels.

In the setting of majors, these private universities avoid the phenomenon of "clumping together" and instead "seek common ground while reserving minor differences", thus avoiding blindly following others. Almost all of them explore and set up distinctive majors in their own universities on the premise of popular majors, and gradually become leaders in their own distinctive majors. For example, although Limkokwing University also offers majors in business and multimedia, its arts major is a very powerful and competitive specialty major that almost no one can replace; Taylor's University's tourism and hotel management major is almost the "most popular among private universities in Malaysia" "Boss", no one can compare with it; the civil engineering, automotive engineering, professional English, corporate public relations and other majors of the Kuala Lumpur University of Construction are also second to none.

A very important reason for these gratifying and praiseworthy developments and changes in Malaysian private universities is that the Malaysian government attaches great importance to the management and support of private higher education. On the one hand, it is management, which requires private schools to provide high-quality services to all international students. A small example can prove it: from 1998 to 1999, because private schools had just begun to recruit international students, neither the government nor the school itself had much experience and effective methods, so many problems arose, one of which Some people enter Malaysia and then disappear after getting a student visa, without reporting to the school at all; there are also some institutions that use the reputation of the school to help students study abroad, but after arriving in Malaysia, the students find out that they have been deceived. In order to prevent such incidents from happening, the Malaysian Immigration Bureau has required all students to apply for a student entry approval letter from the Malaysian Immigration Bureau from the school they are applying for before entering the country in 2000. There are two approval letters, one for the student. Leave one copy for the school. When students enter the country, the school must send a dedicated person with relevant documents to meet the students at the customs at the Malaysian airport and register with the immigration bureau of the customs. This move has greatly standardized the enrollment and management of private schools. All private schools must go to the customs to wait to welcome their students, which is undoubtedly one of the best services for students.

In addition, the Malaysian government also strongly supports the development of private schools. From 2002 to now alone, the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education has promoted more than ten private colleges to university colleges, and will continue to promote eligible university colleges to universities in the near future.

The Malaysian government’s support and management measures for the education industry have brought about the prosperity and development of the Malaysian education industry. These have confirmed the Malaysian government’s confidence and determination to build Malaysia into an excellent education center in Asia. Malaysian educational institutions have witnessed the development and changes of private higher education in Malaysia for more than ten years. These changes make us firmly believe that Malaysia will become an excellent education center in Asia.

Malaysian educational institutions will, as always, be based on the Malaysian study abroad industry, provide the most professional guidance and assistance to all students who want to study in Malaysia, and provide suggestions for the promotion of reputable Malaysian private universities in China.

Note: Malaysia, referred to as Malaysia, with its capital Kuala Lumpur, is a country located in Southeast Asia. Malaysia is composed of thirteen states, and is divided into two parts: one is West Malaysia, which is located on the Malay Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the north, and across the Johor Strait to the south, it is connected to Singapore by the Singapore-Johor Causeway and the Second Channel. ; The other is East Malaysia, located in the north of Kalimantan and bordered by Indonesia in the south, while Brunei is located between the states of Sabah and Sarawak. Malaysia is also one of the founding countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.