PARIS (Bernama): The government of India is offering full scholarships to 300 Malaysian students to pursue their tertiary studies. Malaysia's Educaton Minister Dr Maszlee Malik said the matter was conveyed to him by India's Human Resource Development Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank when they met on Wednesday (Nov 13) on the sidelines of the 40th Session of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). Describing it as a fruitful and constructive meeting, Maszlee said the offer would cover 200 scholarships under its Study in India programme for Malaysian undergraduates to study various fields, while the remaining slots are for 100 post-graduate students to pursue information technology. "India not only wants to renew Malaysia-India cooperation in the field of higher education, but to have more collaborations as well, ” Maszlee told Bernama when met after the meeting. Besides India, Maszlee also had bilateral meetings with Azerbaijan Education Minister Jeyhun Bayramov, who expressed keen interest to learn more about the Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025, which the latter viewed as comprehensive and holistic.

Source: The Star November 14, 2019 02:40 UTC