PUTRAJAYA: The cabinet last week approved the formation of a Malaysian-Japanese University (Maju) to boost educational co-operation between the two countries.
Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development Minister Datuk Noh Omar said the university would be placed under Mara.
The first intake of about 70 students for its technology engineering faculty will take place in July.
"The university had been a subject of discussion between the two governments since 2001," he said after witnessing the signing of a memorandum of understanding on educational co-operation between his ministry and the Higher Education Ministry.
Present were Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin, the ministry's secretary-general Datuk Dr Zulkefli Hassan and Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development Ministry secretary-general Datuk Musa Muhamad.
Noh said the Japanese government would sponsor 15 Japanese professors to teach at the university. Its temporary campus will be the Mara Skills College in Beranang, Selangor.
"The curriculum and faculty's equipment will follow the Japanese university arrangements, but the medium of instruction will be in English."
He also said the government planned to upgrade the status of the Germany-Malaysian Institute (GMI) into a university.
He added that the ministry had set aside RM12.9 million to carry out entrepreneurship programmes in public universities next year.
Under the Ninth Malaysia Plan, he said the government targeted the participation of 1.5 million Bumiputera students, youth, graduates and women in business.
Until last month, he said, 800,630 Bumiputeras had undergone training and courses organised by the ministry.
Khaled said a career and entrepreneurship carnival would be held every year to attract as many graduates as possible to be businessmen.
The carnival would also serve as an entrepreneurship outreach medium for companies interested in hiring the graduates upon completion of their studies.
He said an entrepreneurship subject with one credit hour had been introduced for every course in public universities.
"To complement the subject, we plan to rope in adjunct lecturers to give talks or workshops to our undergraduates as part of the syllabus."
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