SOME 150 FOREIGN STUDENTS ENROLLED AT UNUD's MEDICAL FACULTY

Denpasar, Oct 25 (ANTARA) - Some 150 or 10 percent of Udayana University (Unud)'s 1,500 students are foreigners enrolled at its medical faculty, a university official said.
"In the 2008 academic year alone Unud accepted 48 foreign students but next year the number will be reduced to give wider opportunity to Indonesian students," Prof Dewa Putu Wijana, dean of Unud's medical faculty, said here on Saturday.
He said most of the foreign students were from Malaysia and the rest were from other countries among others Canada, Germany, England, and Timor Leste.
"The acceptance of foreign students at the faculty of medicine in the university is intentionally limited because of its limited number of seats while the interest of new domestic students to study there is high," Putu Wijana said.
He said earlier on Friday that three academicians of various scientific disciplines at Unud would be installed as professors on Saturday.
"The three new professors will be installed at a senate open meeting which is to be led by Unud Rector Prof I Made Bakta at Bukit Jimbaran campus on Saturday," Putu Wijaya said here on Friday.
He said that of the three new professors, two were from the faculty of medicine and one from the faculty of agricultural technology.
The two new professors from the Unud faculty of medicine were Prof AAG Budhiarta Sp PD-KEMD and Prof Ida Bagus Tjakra Wibawa Manuaba MPH, SpB (K) Onk. Fina CS, and the one from the faculty of agricultural technology was Prof Bambang Admadi.
Following the installation of the three new professors, Unud would have 130 professors in various scientific discipline, and the faculty of medicine had 38 professors, or the most among other faculties.
Dewa Putu Wijaya said that with the increasing number of professors, the Udayana University would be able to improve its quality of education at national and international level.