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29% of Malaysian Youth in Universities

Was reading through a Star article about Universities being given "more autonomy to transform the face of education", and then in the second last paragraph it said:

Earlier, Abdullah said the country had done fairly well in delivering higher education, with 29% of Malaysians aged between 18 and 23 in universities.

Wow, somehow that seems incredibly low to me. This could be for various reasons. One could be due to the distinction between a college and a university, which might constitute for the low number.

Well with the increasing rise of "University Colleges" would these students be counted into the statistics?

Or when these University Colleges, get granted University status, will there be a spike in the number of Malaysians attending University?

I wonder whats the reason for the low number.

Note: 95% of statistics are lies, but this wouldn't be something you'd want to be telling the truth about!