1.   Adnan Ibrahim from the Maldives, who is enrolled in a Scottish university twinning programme at Inti College, agrees.

2.   Ariff also brought up the issue of contractual obligations imposed upon the private colleges by their foreign partners in twinning programmes.

3.   For those interested in pursuing a career in either business or finance, the Sunway-Flinders twinning programme would be a good choice.

4.   Furthermore, said Navaratnam, many of the courses offered by private colleges are twinning programmes which are linked to good foreign universities.

5.   He said the State Government aimed to set up twinning programmes with other universities as well as to franchise courses offered by the college.

6.   If there is justification for more law graduates, then local private colleges should have twinning programmes with Malaysian universities.

7.   Many are there for only one year, their two earlier years spent in twinning programmes in Malaysia.

8.   MANY private colleges were established to run courses through collaborative arrangements with foreign universities in what is popularly known as twinning programmes.

9.   Najib said the same could not be said for the private education system as it was more complicated, especially with the existence of twinning programmes.

10.   Mustapa said by devising twinning programmes with reputable foreign universities, KPJSB has been instrumental in the conservation of financial resources within the country.