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Foreign universities giving it to us real good Foreign universities giving it to us real good
Monday, April 14th, 2008 at 8:37pm (38 weeks 1 day ago)
[submitted by arjunan.org] [category: education] [published 38 weeks 8 hours ago]
[author: disgruntled former staff] [site: http://malaysiakini.com (subscribe)] [source]
tags: research fund : foreign professor : australian university :
wikiops: disgruntled former staff : australian university : education : foreign professor : research fund :

The general public is not aware that a certain Australian university which has a campus here has little interest in developing the nation's intellectual capital. Over the last year, it's hidden agenda is to steal Malaysia's wealth and brain power, contributing very little to the nation while delegating distinguished locals to insignificant supporting roles while harvesting their intellectual work for the benefit of Australia.

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