NEW DELHI: Malaysia is keen to recruit teachers from India who are skilled in the English Language to teach our students in Malaysia, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
“One of the proposals that I have forwarded to Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh for consideration this morning was to accept a number of teachers from India who are skilled in the English Language to teach our students in Malaysia,” he said.
He said Manmohan had welcomed the proposal and would instruct the relevant minister to hold discussions with the Malaysian Education Ministry to realise this objective.
“This is in addition to the efforts we have taken with the United States which had sent 75 teachers from there to teach English language,” he told Malaysian reporters after a 30-minute bilateral meeting with Manmohan, here yesterday.
Asked when sourcing of the teachers will start, he said :”We will be discussing the matter later. We want an agreement in principle first.
“Then I have to consult the ministry of education and it depends on the terms and conditions, we will work it out and determine the numbers later.”
Also present at the bilateral meeting were Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman, International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed, Malaysia’s Special Envoy to India and South Asia for Infrastructure, Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu and Malaysia’s High Commissioner to India Datuk Tan Seng Sung.
Malaysia wanted to forge multi-sectoral and comprehensive cooperation with India, said Najib who is in India to attend the two-day Asean-India Commemorative Summit beginning yesterday.
“I have also observed that they send a large number of their students abroad and there is a possibility that they can look at Malaysia as an alternative for their students to study in.
“Malaysia must also organise more education fairs and so on because they lack knowledge on our capability to provide quality education and at very competitive cost,” Najib said. — Bernama