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INTERNATIONALISATION

BY PROFESSOR DR. ISMAIL YUSOFF

The faculty has a significant number of Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) and Memorandum of Agreement
(MoA) with international universities and research
entities. Some of the joint efforts include exchanges of
staff and students, Industrial PhD, Dual PhD and Double
Degrees Programs. Some examples are the student
mobility MoU signed between the Department of Geology
with the Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, France
and a dual PhD signed between the Department of
Chemistry and Geology with Australian National
University, Australia. The faculty expects to run five
active MoU/MOA every year, with each department
establishing at least one MoU/MoA with the top 100
universities in the world.

IN THIS CHAPTER The faculty is supporting student mobility program by
working closely with the International Student Centre
(ISC). Academic staff are also encouraged to initiate and
MOU MOA WITH
support international students attachment through their
INTERNATIONAL research collaboration. The international grants such as
INSTITUTIONS the Japan-Malaysia Asian Core Program and the Newton
Tunku Omar Grant area available to support exchange of
graduate students and young researchers.

STUDENT MOBILITY
PROGRAM
This year the faculty will employ a more regional approach
for the marketing of our programs for international
students. The emphasis will be on ASEAN countries, with
IINTERNATIONAL special attention on Indochina such as Thailand, Vietnam

STUDENT INTAKE and Cambodia. The aim is to achieve 10% intake of
international students every year.

by Dr. Zeeda Fatimah Mohamad