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Malaysia’s Grandiose Education Ambitions a Mess

Plans to make the country a regional education powerhouse disappear in a river of red ink

Apr 08, 2020
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By: Murray Hunter

In 2015, Muhyiddin Yassin, then Malaysia’s education minister, midwifed an ambitious Education Blueprint 2015-2025 that laid out a vision to make the country a regional education powerhouse drawing on foreign students from Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Central Asia and China.

Muhyiddin, now the country’s prime min…

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