The Malaysia-Europe Higher Education Conference, entitled 'Transnational Education - Opportunities and Challenges in the 21st Century: Malaysian and European Perspectives' is hosted with the support of the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education and will explore three of the key themes in the current transnational education debate: regional cooperation, research collaboration and mobility.
The conference will feature speakers from Europe and Malaysia and will focus on how the lessons from Europe can be applied to the Malaysian and South East Asian context. The speakers will evaluate Europe’s attempt at integrating its various national education sectors, in particular through the so-called ‘Bologna Process’, and its experience in stimulating multi-national, collaborative research activities through EU directed funding mechanisms. The Conference will be opened and addressed by His Excellency Vincent Piket Ambassador and Head of the European Union Delegation to Malaysia.
The Malaysian perspective will be represented by two of the country’s leading commentators on Malaysian Higher Education: Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Higher Education Y.Bhg.Prof.Dr. Morshidi Bin Sirat and Vice Chancellor of Al Bukhary International University, Y.Bhg. Professor Tan Sri Dato’ Dzulkifli Abdul Razak.
The European angle will analysed by Prof Pavel Zgaga, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Prof Dr Chris Lorenz of the Free University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University College (The Netherlands) and Mr David Crowley from The University of Nottingham (United Kingdom).
For more information about the conference and the MyEULink project, please visit our website.
For further information for interested exhibitors or participants, please contact Ms Olivia Draeger, email: olivia.draeger@nottingham.edu.my, phone: (+603) 8924 8031 or http://www.nottingham.edu.my/MyEULink/index.aspx
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The University of Nottingham, described by The Sunday Times University Guide 2011 as ‘the embodiment of the modern international university’, has award-winning campuses in the United Kingdom and China as well as here in Malaysia. The University is ranked in the World's Top 75 universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong (SJTU) and the QS World University Rankings and was recently named ‘Europe’s greenest university’ in the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking, a league table of the world’s most environmentally-friendly higher education institutions, which ranked Nottingham second in the world overall.
The University is committed to providing a truly international education for its 40,000 students, producing world-leading research and benefiting the communities around its campuses in the UK and Asia. Impact: The Nottingham Campaign, its biggest ever fund-raising campaign, will deliver the University’s vision to change lives, tackle global issues and shape the future. For more details, visit: www.nottingham.ac.uk/impactcampaign
More than 90 per cent of research at The University of Nottingham is of international quality, according to the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, with almost 60 per cent of all research defined as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. Research Fortnight analysis of RAE 2008 ranked the University 7th in the UK by research power. The University’s vision is to be recognised around the world for its signature contributions, especially in global food security, energy & sustainability, and health.
More news from the University at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/news or http://www.nottingham.edu.my/NewsEvents/News.aspx.
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Released by The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. More information, please Olivia Draeger, Olivia.draeger@nottingham.edu.my on +603 8924 8031.
Posted on 12th March 2012