By IANS
Kuala Lumpur : Five Indian universities will help set up an education hub at Gua Tempurang in Malaysia’s Perak province.
The international university is being set up by Blair Education Services Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian firm in which the principal foreign equity holder is the Maan Sarovar Group of Companies.
The company will collaborate with a consortium of five universities in Chennai, Hyderabad and Belgaum in India, The New Straits Times said Monday.
The consortium comprises the Anna University and the M.G.R. Medical University in Tamil Nadu, the International Institute of Information Technology and University of Hyderabad in Hyderabad and KLE University in Belgaum, Karnataka.
Perak’s minister Tajol Rosli Ghazali led a delegation to Chennai and witnessed the signing of a formal contract.
He said the state had approved a 100-hectare site for the project. Construction is expected to be completed by 2009.
The new university will offer medical courses, including dentistry, pharmacy and nursing, information technology, biotechnology, nano technology, geoscience and management courses.
The agreement provides for joint collaboration in research, PhD and double degree programmes and clinical training of students in medicine, dentistry and health sciences.
Vice-chancellor designate of the university, V.G. Kumar Das, said the collaboration marked a new chapter in the Indian educational scene.