PUTRAJAYA: Only three (1.4 percent) of 120 active private colleges in the country attain the six-star rating while 72 (34.3 percent) are below satisfactory.
Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said the three colleges are Penang Medical College, Segi College Subang Jaya and Taylor's College Subang Jaya.
He said 20 colleges (9.5 percent) attained five-star rating, 60 (28.6 percent) four-star, and the remaining were three-star and below.
The colleges were urged to improve on quality and performance to remain competitive and a choice of local and foreign students.
"If they continue to remain below three stars, the market will eventually determine their fate. I don't like to say the government will do this and that but the market will discipline them," he told reporters after announcing the results of MyQuest assessment 2010/2011.
He suggested that non-competitive colleges merge and implement Capacity Building Programmes to improve competitiveness and achievement.
Some 403 private institutions of higher learning participated in the rating but only 310 colleges completed the web-based instruments. BERNAMA
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