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GOMBAK: The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) will be opening a fourth campus in Pagoh, Johor. The university has set up two Boards of Studies to look into offering courses such as Engineering, Modern Languages and Agriculture at the Pagoh campus in 2012.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin also said Pagoh, which is his parliamentary constituency, would be developed into an educational hub.
Muhyiddin, who is also education minister, made the announcement during the IIUM Hari Raya Aidilfitri gathering at the university campus here yesterday.
The Pagoh campus will be the university's fourth after the campuses in Gombak, Kuala Lumpur and Kuantan.
"IIUM has come a long way to emerge as an internationally-renowed institution of higher learning with its 14 faculties.
"I see no reason why the university cannot spread its wings to another state and I am pleased to say that another campus will soon be opened in Pagoh, Johor," he said yesterday.
"I hope that IIUM Pagoh will be able to begin its courses in 2012. The government will, of course, lend its support to the new campus."
IIUM has 22,000 students, 4,600 of whom are foreigners from more than 90 countries.
"The number of nationalities reflects the diversity in this campus. This provides an opportunity for students to celebrate diversity by understanding each other and accepting the fact that mankind was created into different races and tribes for one benevolent reason -- which is to know each other.
"The Surah al-Hujrat expounds the Quranic concept of celebrating diversity from which we can derive universal ethical principles to promote harmonious relationships among people of different races and faiths."
The verse, Muhyiddin added, urged mankind to know one another based on respect for diversity and difference.
"It recognises the commonality of human beings based on righteousness and ethical conduct."
Present were IIUM president Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan and IIUM Rector Prof Datuk Seri Dr Syed Arabi Idid.
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