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PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is one of the biggest spenders in higher education, but yet, its performance is still less than ideal.

A recent report on 50 countries showed that while Malaysia was one of the top spenders on higher education, it was one of the weakest in terms of research output, institutional ranking, enrolment and employability.

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