New agency to attract foreign students from Asia, Gulf

By Yojana Sharma. The Malaysian agency set up earlier this year to promote the country as a higher education hub says it will concentrate on boosting foreign student numbers, particularly from South East Asian and Gulf countries. Education Malaysia Global Services, or EMGS, was formed as a private company under the aegis of the Higher Education Ministry. The government decided it was time to have a specialist agency promoting the education industry as a whole, in the same way that other national agencies promote sectors such as tourism or biotechnology, said EMGS CEO Mohamed Yazid Adbul Hamid, who previously worked at Malaysia’s biotechnology industry promotion agency. Read more...