{
  "id": 18483656,
  "title": "Zahid, Turkish higher education council chief discuss stronger TVET cooperation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/zahid-turkish-higher-education-council-chief-discuss-stronger-tvet",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-06T10:08:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2026/11/1572302/zahid-turkish-higher-education-council-chief-discuss-stronger-tvet"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "ISTANBUL: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi met with Turkish Higher Education Council President Prof Dr Erol Ozvar to discuss enhancing technical and vocational education and training (TVET) collaboration. The 40-minute meeting, which also included Mara chairman Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, touched on introducing a modular credit system and increasing academic and student exchanges between Malaysia and Turkiye. Zahid highlighted the existing strong partnership between Turkish and Malaysian universities, expressing hope that the discussions would further bolster these ties. The meeting reviewed existing MoUs, cooperation agreements, and technical agreements between the two countries' higher education institutions. Mara institutions, especially Universiti Poly-Tech Malaysia and UniKL, have established robust cooperation with several Malaysian universities, according to Zahid. He added that Mara's 270 TVET institutions, along with other educational bodies, could serve as a platform to broaden technical training cooperation. Malaysia plans to dispatch experts to Turkiye for training-the-trainers programs and to expand lecturer and student exchanges. Zahid suggested the cooperation could extend to the defense industry through joint research involving technical universities and industry stakeholders. Prof Ozvar emphasized the meeting's potential to expand higher education and scientific research collaboration, building on the already solid ties between universities in both nations. Both sides also discussed ongoing scientific research projects and aimed to identify priority areas for collaboration, as represented by YOK Department of International Relations head Mustafa Efe.",
  "summary": "ISTANBUL: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today received a courtesy call from Turkish Higher Education Council (YOK) president Prof Dr Erol Ozvar.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Bernama",
        "title": "General : Malaysia, Turkiye To Strengthen TVET, Higher Education Cooperation - Ahmad Zahid",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/general-malaysia-turkiye-to-strengthen-tvet-higher-education",
        "published": "2026-11-06T09:50:51.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}