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practitioners, and from our security teams to our daily supporting teams. Your
unwavering dedication, perseverance and hard work have enabled our success
contributions and sacrifices, even though some of you might wonder whether “
today.
5. All of your efforts have never gone unnoticed, we value and cherish your It takes courage,

your sincere intent and hard work are recognised. bold leadership,
wisdom and
6. We have in place a new refined talent management system where the good talents foresight to do
and the good expertise, work ethics, mindset, intent, work efficiency, and previous the right things
track record of experience and contributions are all being comprehensively and in the face of
holistically recognised, evaluated and managed. pressures and
7. Apart from governance, research and physical infrastructure as being some of our external forces
core focus areas that we have been targeting to drastically revamp and improve, that indicate
talent management and the effort of recruiting, managing and retaining the best otherwise. The
talents have also been in our core periphery of focus areas. responsibilities
8. This has given us a positive outcome where we have with us, the best of the best and powers
of human capital, and we will continue to attract more great talents from the world entrusted upon
over. them carry
9. The spirit and vigour will need to be the same, the hunger and the intent to enormous
contribute to the university, the people, the nation, and the world. Not out of consequences for
monetary compensation per se as the ultimate drive, and not out of the other
ripple effects of other benefits, but with the unyielding drive and pride of serving the lives of people
and uplifting the nation’s oldest and best university, with the intent to fully utilise and the fate of
the campus readiness and environment to produce the best outcome possible for the world. As
the nation and humanity. Abraham Lincoln
10. The past year of 2025 has solidified this tenet, where we have seen some amazing put it: “Nearly all
displays of sheer grit and efforts, and we hope to see more of that being replicated men can withstand 107
at a higher volume and speed for this year. adversity. If you
11. The changes in depth, speed, and frameworks of the higher education industry want to test a
are already profound, and this year will be no exception. If we were to continue to man’s character,
be mired in conventional norms, or be trapped in the doldrum of past practices, give him power.”
perspectives and mindset with archaic belief systems, we would not have been
able to achieve what we have put our efforts in for the past year. “
12. Changes are always fluid, yet they wait for no soul. While some key fundamentals
facets will need to be preserved, we perish when we do not embrace the new
reality of the world effectively or fast enough.
13. All these are without question, will not be at the expense of the essence of our
highest standard for merit, quality and excellence. These have been, and will
always be, our highest standard flagbearers.
14. As we step into the new year, we do so with a sharper sense of identity: We
are calm when others rush. We are strategic when others react. We grow - with
purpose, with conviction, and with calm positivity.
15. States and powers - shaped by power plays, global rivalry and intensifying
tensions - have channelled focus toward economic and defence resilience and
readiness, and the higher education and academic and research fronts have
taken a big hit. Funding is scarcer now, while expectations have risen more than
the support system given.
16. Geopolitical interplays and economic turbulence have shifted the purpose, goals
and eventual outcomes of higher education core missions, and we must thread
this very carefully in our future navigation.
17. It takes courage, bold leadership, wisdom and foresight to do the right things in the
face of pressures and external forces that indicate otherwise. The responsibilities
and powers entrusted upon them carry enormous consequences for the lives of