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Taylor’s College also pioneered the first twinning programme in Malaysia with an agreement signed with RMIT on 23 February, 1987. [5] This set a precedent for other twinning programmes in Taylor’s, such as with the University of Sheffield in 1992 and the University of Technology, Sydney , in 1993.
In 1987, Sunway College was established by its Founder, Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah, AO. A pioneer of twinning and credit transfer programmes, Sunway College offers Malaysian and international students the opportunity of obtaining well recognised foreign university qualifications from the UK, Australia and the USA here in Malaysia.
Expansion led to the opening of the Kuala Lumpur city campus in 1997, followed by campuses in Karachi, Pakistan (1998), Colombo, Sri Lanka (2000), Lahore, Pakistan (2000), Panipat, India (2001) and Perth, Australia (2004). In 2003 the Malaysian campus moved to new premises at Technology Park Malaysia, where it is now known as APIIT TPM.
Twintech has around 4,000 students studying local and overseas twinning programmes. Approximately 150 local and overseas full-time lecturers support the academic programmes at Twintech. All programmes will be awarded internally; some will be quality-controlled by universities from United Kingdom and local universities.
Twinning is a is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities or organizations for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties. An early example was the concept of twin towns and sister cities .
Any twinning arrangement should be listed at two locations in the list: once for each of the towns involved in the arrangement. Due to the extreme size of this list and for ease of navigation, the list is divided into separate lists by continent, which are then organized by country.
Map of Malaysia. This is a list of local governments in Malaysia which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
UOW Malaysia offers education programs at the Certificate, Diploma, Degree and Masters levels. UOW Malaysia is part of the University of Wollongong Australia’s global network, but has a history of providing tertiary education to Malaysia, and the surrounding regions, as it was previously known as KDU college and university colleges.