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Universiti Utara Malaysia (literally meaning Northern University of Malaysia, abbreviated as UUM or UNIUTAMA) is a public management university in Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia. It also has a branch campus in Kuala Lumpur. [7] Its main campus, which is situated in a rural area, is commonly referred to as "The University in a Green Forest".
Mata Pelajaran Pengajian Umum (MPU, English: General Studies Subjects) is a pre-university qualification of general studies for private universities in Malaysia. It was formerly known as Mata Pelajaran Wajib (MPW).
Public universities in Malaysia are funded by the Government and are governed as self-managed institutions. Apart from the University of Malaya and the MARA University of Technology which were established by two separate enabling Acts of Parliament, [5] [6] [7] the other public universities in Malaysia were created by executive order as per the provisions of the Universities and University ...
Uum or UUM may refer to: The University of Ulster's Magee College; Universiti Utara Malaysia, the Northern University of Malaysia in Kedah; UUM, the U.S. Department of Defense designation for a submarine-launched anti-submarine missile; Urum (ISO code uum), a Turkic language spoken by ethnic Greeks
Legislation was passed in 1961 and the Universiti Malaya was established on 1 January 1962. [1] [9] [10] [2] In 2012, UM was granted autonomy by the Ministry of Higher Education. [11] The university also collaborated with the University of Wales in 2013 to establish International University of Malaya-Wales (IUMW), a private university in Malaysia.
A Sponsoring Committee chaired by Syed Nasir Ismail, a Malay intellectual, was set up to prepare a report recommending the establishment of UKM.Other prominent members of this committee include Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (Tun), Malaysia's fourth Prime Minister, who was then the Education Minister, and Dr. Mohd Rashdan Haji Baba, who later became UKM's first Vice-Chancellor.
The ASEAN University Network (AUN) is an arrangement between 30 universities in the ten ASEAN countries. The AUN is composed of a Board of Trustees (BOT), the participating universities, and the AUN Secretariat.
The Malaysian government, on 20 September 2006, agreed to award the university-college a full university status and changed its name to Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. On 1 February 2007, Mustapa Mohamed, the Minister of Higher Education officially announced the change of status. Subsequently, Hishamuddin Hussein then made the official ...