No more scholarships to private Malaysian universities

The Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry has decided to put an end to new Yemeni government scholarships to private Malaysian universities, due to their poor educational quality and high costs, reports FMT.

The ministry has also decided to withdraw financial support for students if their academic performance has been less than excellent. Ahmed Al-Rabei, director of scholarships at the ministry, told the Yemen Times that in Malaysia, a private university education is inferior to a public university education, and in addition the tuition and fees of private universities were triple those of public universities.

The cost of attending a public Malaysian university is approximately $1,500 per year, while the cost of an education at a private university is about $4,500. There are some 9,000 Yemeni students studying in Malaysia – nearly 4,000 of them in private universities.
Full report on the Free Malaysia Today site