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Representing the University of Malaya (UM) <\/i><\/span><\/u><\/a>were\u00a0Dr Evelyn Khor,<\/strong> Director of International & Corporate Relations, and\u00a0Mr Mohd Firdaus Zainal Abidin<\/strong>, Officer in charge of research proposals and grant allocations. They were joined by\u00a0Dr Ping Jack Soh<\/strong>, Deputy Dean for Research Management and Innovation and Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis.<\/p>\n The delegation was welcomed\u00a0by\u00a0Dr Anthony Manning<\/strong>, Dean for Internationalisation<\/span><\/u><\/a>; Professor Roger Vickerman<\/strong>, Dean for Europe<\/span><\/u><\/a>; Hannah McNorton<\/strong>, Director of International Partnerships<\/span><\/u><\/a>; Phil Ward<\/strong>, Deputy Director of Research Services<\/span><\/u><\/a>; and Posie Bogan<\/strong>, Director of Corporate Communications<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n Representatives\u00a0from the Centre for English and World Languages (CEWL)<\/span><\/u><\/a> and the schools of Computing<\/span><\/u><\/a>, European Culture and Languages (SECL)<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0and Social Policy, Sociology \u00a0&\u00a0Social Research (SSPSSR)<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0also met with colleagues\u00a0from UM.<\/p>\n UM is Malaysia\u2019s oldest<\/strong> university\u00a0and\u00a0the premier research intensive university<\/strong> in the country, ranked 133 in the 2016 QS rankings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n It\u00a0is comprised of 12 faculties<\/strong>:\u00a0Faculty of Medicine; Faculty of Built Environment; Faculty of Economics and Administration; Faculty of Business and Accountancy; Faculty of Education; Faculty of Science; Faculty of Languages and Linguistics; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology; Academy of Malay Studies; Academy of Islamic Studies; Cultural Centre; Sports Centre, and Centre for Foundation Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Representing the University of Malaya (UM) were\u00a0Dr Evelyn Khor, Director of International & Corporate Relations, and\u00a0Mr Mohd Firdaus Zainal Abidin, Officer in charge of research … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}