Challenges of higher education
THE 2009 Global Higher Education Forum jointly organised by the Higher Education Ministry and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) last week took off with a bang marked by the keynote and opening speech by Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin. The speech created tremendous impact on the conferenc...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/32723/ http://eprints.usm.my/32723/1/DZUL107.pdf |
| Summary: | THE 2009 Global Higher Education Forum jointly organised by the Higher Education Ministry and Universiti Sains
Malaysia (USM) last week took off with a bang marked by the keynote and opening speech by Minister Datuk
Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin.
The speech created tremendous impact on the conference themed Recent Trends, Future Directions, which
covers issues of regionalism and harmonisation, the influence of the economic crisis, as well as future
relevance and scenarios of higher education.
In his speech, Mohamed Khaled elaborated on five important topics challenges
in transforming higher
educationÍž issues which have impacted itÍž the nature of authority in tertiary institutionsÍž cooperation versus
competition and commercialisation of research. |
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