ABSTRACT
Between 1995 and 1998 I was posted as on-site Academic Director for an RMIT University campus development in Penang, Malaysia – RMIT partnered a local businessman to provide tertiary-level engineering and business education for Malaysian students. A far-sighted, difficult project that deserves an academic novel à la Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge, it would succumb to the late-1990s Asian ‘financial crisis’.
