Malaysian Government Launches PhD Scholarship Programme

Published July 10th, 2006 in Malaysia, News, Scholarships

Three days ago, there was a post on how the Government should setup a PhD scholarship scheme for public university (IPTA) lecturers of all races. Today, the Government announces that such a scheme, valued at RM1.2 billion, would be implemented under the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP).

This is either prescience, or… sheer forgetfulness. But whatever it is, an allocation of 6,700 PhD scholarships is definitely a Good Thing. Of that amount, 35% are for local studies, 5% for overseas studies, and the remainder for split (a.k.a. twinning) programmes - where the first two years would be done locally, and the last year abroad.

At least now, we can no longer say that University Malaya’s new academic staff policy is biased, though undergraduate students will still be dissatisfied that the Government does not provide non-teaching postgraduate scholarships.

4 Responses to “Malaysian Government Launches PhD Scholarship Programme”

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1 jagadeesh Oct 23rd, 2007 at 9:22 am

For this malasian PhD scolorship programme
IELTS require or good industrisl experience is
sufficient particularly in ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
subject,can you reply please…
2 hamid reza motifar Feb 8th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

hi
I have msc in organic chemistry from iran.and i wanted educated in phd chemistry in dubi/plz guid me.have a good time
3 khadijeh aghaee Feb 21st, 2008 at 11:01 pm

Dear,

I am Khadijeh Aghaee, MA graduated in linguistics mojoring TPSOL (Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages) from Shiraz university, Iran, highly interested in further education leading to PhD in TEF/SL .
Teching in Azad university at the time, I’v prepared all prerequisits to follow my studies in Malaysia. Just to your knowledge, My MA thesis entitled “Application of Cohesive Devices in “Learning Farsi” ” has just been defended with garde A (19.5 out of 20), winning the first best student’s prize (Average 18.26 out of 20).
I am eagerly waiting for your reply!
Your Sincerely,
Khadijeh Aghaee
4 M Ayajuddin Apr 10th, 2008 at 1:45 am

this is Ayajuddin from India. I have completed my master’s degree in biotechnology and i would like to go for further studies i.e. Ph D in the related topics.. pliz guide me by sending me mails. thanks a lot.