Kathi-gesu, a professor at the Science University of Malaysia's school of mass communications.

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Oglesby is working with North-West University in South Africa and the University of Malaysia and a second university in Malaysia plans to start a program soon.

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Chan Chee Khoon, associate professor of development studies at the Science University of Malaysia, questions how health services can be widely accessible under such a system.

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"I think the decision was made before the prime minister left, " says Zakaria Ahmad, dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National University of Malaysia.

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Ramasamy of the National University of Malaysia.

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Kumar has a bachelor's degree in ecology from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, a master's degree in biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA in finance from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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By contrast, it was not until 2000 that the first large-scale British university campus was established abroad, by the University of Nottingham in Malaysia.

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In September 2007, Foster was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, for his efforts on the Petronas University of Technology, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Malaysia.

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The episode is likely to cause further embarrassment for the University of Wales, after an earlier BBC investigation revealed a college offering its courses in Malaysia was run by a pop star with two bogus degrees.

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