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

22.   He added that the steps taken by the foreign universities could help ease the burden of the parents who had children studying overseas.

23.   He also taught at foreign universities such as the Sorbonne, Cambridge, Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley.

24.   He drilled into me the necessary motivation to ensure that I could compete effectively in the job market with the other graduates especially those with foreign university degrees.

25.   He said many people in Malaysia will soon know the advantages of local colleges compared to foreign universities.

26.   He said other students would have to do their degrees locally as the cost of education was lower and the quality at par with that of foreign universities.

27.   However, only those who obtained places in tier-one or excellent foreign universities, would be allowed to continue with their degree programmes.

28.   In my view, ultimately it is a matter of how we perceive these foreign universities.

29.   Incoming foreign universities, on the other hand, will not understand why our way of operating our institutions for higher learning is so different from theirs.

30.   In this connection, the stipulation that foreign universities must carry out the national curriculum in their operation will become very problematical.