Thursday, 04 Mar 2021 10:34 AM MYT
BY ASHMAN ADAM
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 Thirty two Malaysian programmes made the top 100 universities for the study of an academic subject in this year’s Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject.
According to QS, the additional two programmes compared to last year s list shows Malaysia’s global rise in the higher education sector.
“This is two more than last year, with Universiti Malaya entering the top-100 for Environmental Sciences (89th) and Pharmacy & Pharmacology (97th). The number of top-200 Malaysian programs has risen from 90 to 95 year-on-year,” it said in a statement following the global release of its results today.
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Malaysia’s king asked politicians in the country on Tuesday to set aside their differences after lawmakers across the spectrum questioned his decision to declare a national emergency to contain escalating coronavirus cases.
Meanwhile, Malaysia extended a lockdown over most of the country amid consistently elevated rates of COVID-19 cases daily, a day after the prime minister announced a multi-billion-dollar stimulus package to shore up the pandemic-battered economy.
“This is the time for us as Malaysians to put aside our political differences, races and religions and show our loyalty, humanity and solidarity in fighting the pandemic,” King Al-Sultan Abdullah Riayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah said in a statement.