Yemeni students in Malaysia

Yemeni students in Malaysia

There is a common belief that has been revolved in Yemen. This belief reveals that those who study abroad are the most qualified and successful generation. This belief is being supported by the government itself by granting as much as they can for paid scholarships to different countries.

In order to measure student progress we are going to take a short glance to Malaysian education system. Education is a priority of the Federal Government of Malaysia and it is committed to provide quality education to all. The 9th Malaysian Plan (9MP) from 2006 to 2010 has placed great importance on education, training and lifelong learning. In line with greater focus on human development. More than that Malaysia has set its plan for 2020 vision to be one of the developed country similar to Europe and western countries.

There are several obstacles that harm Yemeni students in Malaysia due to the cross-culture arising in Malaysia. Malaysia is a diverse country includes different groups like Chinese and most of them Christian, Indian and they are Hindu and the last Malay and they are officially Muslim. This leads to very serious impacts on the Yemeni students whereby they may absorb some negative attitude from these cultures. Many of us will argue that the Yemeni students will not be away from gaining negative attitude from these cultures as well .it is correct to some extent but I would argue that they are still much matured and they highly affected to the beneficial  side.

Cross-culture in Malaysian may be as mysterious for the Yemeni students. If a question asked to a student for receiving any cross-culture training before the travel, definitely the will answer will be No, however, there is only few students who traveling and live abroad and they can easily deal with multicultural communities due their past experience of traveling.

There are many students who are coming from the rural areas in Yemen. Those students face very complication in their studying period. One of the most complicated issues is the English barrier since it is the second language in Malaysia. Hence, they are not being well at their communicating and they adapt to speak very broken English as it is popular in Malaysia.

All in all, the flow of international students in Malaysia has increased steadily since 1996, when various higher education reforms were introduced to facilitate the entry of international students into higher education institution. In December 2009 Yemenis students ranked 5 in terms of the top of the international students in Malaysia numbered 4,931.

Fateh Alameri

Malaysia