Raffles Education to set up uni in matland!!

[hurley]

Model of Iskandar Malaysia

SINGAPORE : Raffles Education Corp, through its whole-owned Malaysian subsidiary, has signed a joint venture agreement with Education@Iskandar to establish Raffles University Iskandar in Malaysia's southern state of Johor.

The self-accrediting university will begin operations in October this year out of its leased premises at Kota Raya, Johor Bahru, while its permanent campus in EduCity@Iskandar is being built.

The 65-acre multi-facility campus is expected to be ready by 2013.

The school will join several other educational institutions in Malaysia's southern development corridor, such as the Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia, the Netherlands Maritime Institute of Technology, and the University of Southampton Malaysia Campus.

The new university will be 80 per cent held by Raffles Education Corp and 20 per cent by Education Iskandar, which will be responsible for the development and operations of the university.

Both companies will put in approximately S$82 million into the project.

The school is expected to enrol up to 5,000 students in its first five years of operations.

It will initially provide undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in three faculties - Business, Design & Art, and Education & Social Sciences.

Two more faculties - Health Sciences and Technology - will be added later.

Raffles Education Corp is the largest private education provider in the Asia-Pacific region.

- CNA/al

 

[cooleo]

>>The self-accrediting university will begin operations in October this year out of its leased premises at Kota Raya, Johor Bahru, while its permanent campus in EduCity@Iskandar is being built.<<

The degree got value?

 

[groinroot]

Model of Iskandar Malaysia

SINGAPORE : Raffles Education Corp, through its whole-owned Malaysian subsidiary, has signed a joint venture agreement with Education@Iskandar to establish Raffles University Iskandar in Malaysia's southern state of Johor.
- CNA/al

Raffles University Iskandar?

What a screwed up name! Reminds me of some people who wear western suits as well as a sarong over their pants!

 

[NoNewsGood]

What is wrong with this? We have companies setting factories in Malaysia way before this.

 

[FuzzyDude]

Hmm... will there be a racial quotas ????

 

[Received_by_Kings]

Hmm... will there be a racial quotas ????

It would be funny if the mat sallehs are restricted to favour Azns.

 

[Received_by_Kings]

This is a good development. The name of Raffles the well-meaning freemason to be used for education purposes should spread far and wide, and not just be confined to Singapore.

 

[youtalkcock]

"SamuelShitSkin! Stop rubbing your puny dick against my ass!"​

 

[syed putra]

raffles has already got an established arts college in kl or many years now. students all wear fancy dress everyday, not the nerdy types.
this hopefully will keep many teenagers to study locally instead of flying off to various exotic overseas location and make the environment more vibrant.

 

[johnny333]

this hopefully will keep many teenagers to study locally instead of flying off to various exotic overseas location and make the environment more vibrant.

Not likely as overseas study is also seen as a convenient way to emigrate.

 

[leetahbar]

this public-listed counter is very jialat!

it has jus consolidated 5 shares into 1 with current trading price of about 58c which means divided that by 5, it's post-consolidated prices is only about 12c.

b4 consolidating, the prices were trading at about 30c. their directors esp the MD n wifey were mopping up million of shares at an average price of about 28c. price trading now at 58c means big time losses for those directors who were mopping up.

then what's the meaning of all this? something not right here!

 

[leetahbar]

luckily for me, i bought raffles edu chares dirt cheap - way below what their directors were mopping and sold it at high of 33c b4 the shares consolidation.

 

[Andox]

this public-listed counter is very jialat!

it has jus consolidated 5 shares into 1 with current trading price of about 58c which means divided that by 5, it's post-consolidated prices is only about 12c.

b4 consolidating, the prices were trading at about 30c. their directors esp the MD n wifey were mopping up million of shares at an average price of about 28c. price trading now at 58c means big time losses for those directors who were mopping up.

then what's the meaning of all this? something not right here![/QUOTE


If you have their shares, dump it! Thank god i did so way earlier.

 

[leetahbar]

this public-listed counter is very jialat!

it has jus consolidated 5 shares into 1 with current trading price of about 58c which means divided that by 5, it's post-consolidated prices is only about 12c.

b4 consolidating, the prices were trading at about 30c. their directors esp the MD n wifey were mopping up million of shares at an average price of about 28c. price trading now at 58c means big time losses for those directors who were mopping up.

then what's the meaning of all this? something not right here![/QUOTE


If you have their shares, dump it! Thank god i did so way earlier.

already dumped and made a tidy sum

 

[tua lam pah]

education is the next big con job

 

[StolenIdentity]

Ya great! So long as Raffles Education Group is not misrepresenting the public. They're just riding on the fame and glory that the 3 Raffles schools have built.

 

[StolenIdentity]

It's really very confusing la. Raffles Institution, Raffles Girls'School, Raffles Junior College, Raffles College - all so famous and reputable for quality students and quality education but now having to share their "Raffles Education" with a fake Raffles University, Raffles Institute of Higher Learning, Raffles College of Higher Education blah blah blah. These days when registering 2 business entities with almost similar names is so difficult, how come this Raffles Education Group could get away with it? Seems fishy la. Wonder why all old Raffles students are keeping so quiet about it. What if some day, an old Raffles Alumnus is formed by the students of all these fake Raffles schools. Wouldn't there be more confusion?

 

[StolenIdentity]

Nothing wrong as far as business is concerned but using "people's backside as their face"is not so good la. Why use the names of already famous schools to gain a foothold. Many dumbers in matland might think that they would be really getting a good "Raffles education" like those who went through RI and RGS.