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Issue no. 2 | 2022

The Academic Programme Management
Enhancement Workshop

By Mdm. Nur Afiqah Rosden under the portfolio of Student Affairs. This includes

The Academic Programme Management Enhancement reviewing existing forms and procedures at the
Workshop was held on 27-28 May 2022 at The Everly department or faculty’s level. The Faculty always
Hotel, Putrajaya. The 3 days workshop was attended by a emphasises the expertise of various aspects or work
total of 39 participants involving the Faculty's processes among staff while encouraging staff to improve
management team, 8 lecturers and 21 selected operating existing skills so that the objectives and goals of the
staff. This workshop is one of the faculty's efforts to Faculty and the University can be successfully achieved.
improve competencies among staff who manage
academic programs and student affairs at the Faculty.
Following changes to the current rules and regulations of
the university, the management of academic programs
needs to be strengthened at the departmental and the
Faculty level so that the Faculty can provide the best and
most efficient services to all students.

During this workshop, participants discussed and
reviewed current work processes in the management of
existing academic programs (both Undergraduate and
Postgraduate) as well as creating new work processes

Global Educational Collaboration with Slovakia

By Dr Mumtaz Aini Alivi
Dean of the Faculty of Mass Media Communication, to
Universiti Malaya.

Two institutions are eager to collaborate in areas such as
academic writing and submission to journals and
conferences, as well as the mobility programs for the
students under the Erasmus+ programme. The discussions
Members of the Faculty of Mass Media Communication, UCM FMK between FASS and the five member delegation from the
meeting with the Dean and the Department of Media and Slovakian University on June 7 were extremely fruitful. The
Communication Studies of FASS in the faculty
team have also had a meeting with the FASS Dean, Datuk
Prof. Dr. Danny Tze Ken, along with other members of the
department. During the meeting, Datuk Prof Danny
welcomed international collaboration and hoped both
universities would collaborate in several other areas.

In conjunction with that, one week later, three members of
FASS, Department of Media and Communication Studies,
Dr. Mumtaz Aini Alivi, Dr. Mohamad Saleeh Rahamad, and
Dr. Muhamad Shamsul Ibrahim, visited the UCM FMK in
Trnava, Slovakia for further discussions. The Faculty of
During the reciprocated visit in Slovakia - Meeting in UCM FMK Mass Media Communication offers a good facility for the
The Department of Media and Communication Studies will students who intend to do courses related to media
be collaborating with the Faculty of Mass Media studies with a complete studio, conty room and other
Communications, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in academic facilities. All the operations in the country are
Trnava (UCM FMK), Slovakia, on various academic handled by selected students who excel in their studies. It
platforms in the near future. The plans were discussed gives them a real working environment in the media
during the recent visit of Assoc Prof. Ľudmila Čábyová, landscape.
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