Taiwan Malaysia Higher Education Fair was held respectively in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Kota Kinabalu from August 3rd to 13th, 2016.  There were around 445 student coming to our booth to request for further information regarding enrollment requirement, tuition fee and dormitory.  There were around 15 teachers coming to request for our pamphlets.  Since the year of 2015, Malaysia Government had allowed the public middle school teachers to lead their students to the education fair.   This year we saw a slightly growth on numbers of students interested in our university. We collects from teachers and students 237 sheets of enquiries solely in Kuala Lumpur, 174 sheets in Penang, and 49 sheets in Kota Kinabalu.   The most frequently-inquired-after departments were School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, and School of Pharmacy.

Governmental Policy of Heading South brought forth heated discussion as to how we could motivate more Malaysian students to take this great opportunities to head north.  Taiwan was known for her high qualities of education in training medical specialists. Kaohsiung Medical University surely demonstrated the niche of recruitment in the education fair.  However, our alumnus doctor Hu pointed out the darker end of Malaysian government encouraging students to pour into the field of interests in medicine, pharmacy and dentistry.  Malaysian overseas Chinese students would have to face a great challenge on graduation in spite of their highly-qualified training in school as well as during their interns in Taiwan.  They had to tackle with the risk of waiting in a long queue for their interns in the Malaysia running Medical institute for two years.  This risk lied in the governmental protection policy tending to have more preference for the Malay.  As long as our Malaysian overseas Chinese students could hang in there to pass the benchmark and get the licenses, according to Doctor Hu, our alumni in Malaysia would be able to stand out among those Malaysian-trained medical specialists.  However, in comparison with medical graduates from Australian Universities, Hu suggested, Taiwan still had a lot to learn with respect to innovation and creativities in terms of dedication to work.   All in all, KMU needed to be aware that what we had and how we could make ourselves more advanced in education in order to attract more students as their best choice.