At the 4th Asia-Europe Meeting (Asem) of Education Ministers, Ministry secretary-general Datuk Ab Rahim Md Noor said, there was an imbalance in the flow of students with the movement heavily skewed towards students from Asia studying in Europe. Though recently it is observed that there is an increasing trend of students from the West furthering their studies in Asia. Branch campuses by prestigious institutions such as Monash University, University of Nottingham and University of Reading had helped to draw more foreign students to Malaysia.

Ab Rahim also said that the Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA) is interested to undertake bilateral comparability studies of Bachelor degree qualifications with its European counterparts to pave the way for credit transfer between European and local universities.

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