{"id":4733,"date":"2010-12-06T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=4733"},"modified":"2015-04-29T07:24:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T07:24:54","slug":"malaysia-wants-to-produce-48000-phd-holders-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/december-2010\/malaysia-wants-to-produce-48000-phd-holders-by-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Wants to Produce 48,000 PhD Holders by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Fdecember-2010%2Fmalaysia-wants-to-produce-48000-phd-holders-by-2020%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=4733&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday, 06 December 2010 18:02<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/MoU%20UKM%20UDE1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/>By Shahfizal Musa<br \/>\nPix by Saliman Leman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 6 Dec. 2010 \u2013 Malaysia wants to produce up to 48,000 Phd. holders by the year 2020 for which RM350 million had already been allocated under the 10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0 Malaysia Plan as part of the move.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aim is to put Malaysian higher education institutions at par with world class institutions, said the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Dato\u2019 Dr Hou Kok Chung here today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said A MyPhd programme was launched recently allowing for Split Phd programmes where students can be certified simultaneously by local and international universities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith the recent launch of three new initiatives under MyBrain15 Programme, in particular the MyPhd initiative, the Ministry is casting a wider net, this time offering funding even to candidates outside the public universities domain,\u201d he said at the signing ceremony of a Cooperation Agreement and the launching of Double Degree Phds between UKM and University of Duisburg-Essen Germany (UDEG).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the past the pull factors for many local universities in attracting foreign students is the cost factor\u00a0 but\u00a0competition is becoming increasingly stiff globally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAlthough most universities now rely on the cost factor in attracting\u00a0 international students, this cannot continue forever. We must convince them to come here for the quality of education that we provide\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the solution to remain relevant and be an institution which is world class in nature is the process of internationalisation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The collaboration between UKM and UDEG is one of such example to be established and to maintain an international presence. It will enable doctorate student to be certified by both Universities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Hou commended UKM for having the foresight to establish such a global presence congratulating both it and UDEG for their foresight and proactive move. He hoped that the collaboration would result in more students pursuing the split programmes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Vice Chancellor Dato&#8217; Sr Ir Hassan Basri and Vice Rector of Research UDEG, Prof Dr. Ing. Habil Jorg Schroder signed the Agreement. The German Ambassador to Malaysia Dr Guenter Gruber was present at the ceremony.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/MoU%20UKM%20UDE2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/MoU%20UKM%20UDE3.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/MoU%20UKM%20UDE4.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/MoU%20UKM%20UDE5.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/MoU%20UKM%20UDE6.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, 06 December 2010 18:02 By Shahfizal Musa Pix by Saliman Leman BANGI, 6 Dec. 2010 \u2013 Malaysia wants to<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/december-2010\/malaysia-wants-to-produce-48000-phd-holders-by-2020\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4734,"parent":1422,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4733","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4736,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4733\/revisions\/4736"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}