Almotamar Net - Yemeni Higher Education Undersecretary Dr Ali Qassem on Saturday concluded his visit to a number of Malaysian educational establishments where he called on Presidents of Malaysian universities to open branches of their universities in Yemen.

Saturday, 19-July-2008
Almotamar.net - Yemeni Higher Education Undersecretary Dr Ali Qassem on Saturday concluded his visit to a number of Malaysian educational establishments where he called on Presidents of Malaysian universities to open branches of their universities in Yemen.

Dr Qassem met the Malaysian Minister of Higher Education Mohammed Khalid Nuridin and they agreed on activation of the two ministries ' joint committee. According to the agreement the a technical committee from the Malaysian Higher Education will visit Yemen the beginning of next August to for preparation of memos of understanding between the two countries.

On the other hand Dr Qassem met Professor Mahatir Mohammed, former Malaysian Prime Minister on the sidelines of a workshop on electronic administration of universities organised by Multimedia University attended by12 countries and the two men discussed ways of developing research and academic work between the two countries.

In a statement to almotamar.net Dr Qassem said the aim of his visit to Malaysian educational establishment is to get acquainted with the kind of education pursuits of Malaysian universities in order to apply scientific criteria for degrees of Yemeni students graduated from Malaysian universities and extending invitation to Malaysian universities to open branches for them in Yemen.

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