Private higher educational institutions bill passed

The senate has passed the Private Higher Education Institutions (amendment) Bill 2014 to allow Malaysia to become a regional education hub.

The new bill amends the Private Higher Educational Institutions 1996 (Act 555). With the new changes, the new bill aims:

• to tighten quality monitoring and control of all local private institutions and encourage the liberalisation of the sector
• to allow international institutions of higher learning to open up branch campuses in Malaysia
• to utilise new technologies and best practises that would benefit the country
• to provide more opportunities for students to pursue higher education in private institutions