Australian and Malaysian education partnerships strengthened on the back of the MAFTA signing

21 Vice-Chancellors, Deputy Vice-Chancellors, senior academics and researchers from Australia's leading Innovative Research Universities (IRU) are undertaking a five-day visit program in Malaysia on 11th - 15th June 2012. "The Australian and Malaysian Governments have identified education, research and innovation as critical components of our nations' development.

"We welcome this visit by IRU as a unique opportunity to strengthen existing research linkages between Australia and Malaysia's Research Universities and to boost our bilateral cooperation in priority fields such as global warming, infectious diseases, tropical medicine, water and energy security", said Ms Elodie Journet, Australian Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner to Malaysia and Brunei.