Malaysian universities: 'Why wouldn't anyone want to come here?'

By Stephen Hoare. Malaysia's relaxed multicultural lifestyle and year-round sun are prime attractions for UK academics, says Christine Ennew the new provost of Nottingham University's Malaysia campus.
Academic life has an added sparkle for the new provost of Nottingham University's Malaysia campus just outside the capital, Kuala Lumpur. Christine Ennew has been teaching in Malaysia on and off since 2000 when she and a handful of academic colleagues helped set up the overseas campus.
"Our unique selling point is we offer a British education but we are locally embedded. All our research priorities contribute to the region's economic priorities," says Ennew. In the early days Ennew lived in a rented apartment in Kuala Lumpur just half an hour's walk from the university's original city centre campus near the famous twin skyscrapers, the Petronas Towers. Read more...