Am I agile? Reflections on the U21/KWBN Global Citizenship Employability Roundtable

This is a guest piece from Dr Vanaja Nethi, Programme Professor and Regional Liaison (Asia) for the Fischler School of Education, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) in Florida, USA. Being involved in the provision of transnational education in Asia, I was pleased to get the opportunity to attend several sessions of the Universitas 21/Knowledge Without Borders …

Tricampus Team Presents to Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) 2014 in Seoul

This post was contributed by Sean Matthews Tricampus Team Presents to Asia-Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) 2014 in Seoul, Korea. There was another landmark for the University of Nottingham last week with a panel drawn from colleagues based at each of the three main campuses, who collaborated in a presentation at the annual conference, …

U21 KWBN Global Citizenship Workshop Breaks New Ground With Live Streaming of UNMC Events from Semenyih and KLTC venues

This post was contributed by Sean Matthews and Yeong Woon Chin There was a significant technological ‘first’ for UNMC during the recent U21 KWBN Global Citizenship Workshop, 13-14 March. We used the event to explore our live streaming capabilities, and achieved a successful and well-received feed for the session (the link has been taken down …

Branching Out

This post was contributed by Rida Khan and Olivia Dumas As part of its closing act, the ‘Global Citizen Workshop 2014’ ended with a small(er) round-table discussion before waving adieu to the many delegates that had attended over the past few days. Issues of branch campuses, internationalisation of both the curriculum and the experience were …

GEP 14: Emerging Markets and Financial Integration

The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus recently hosted a major international conference on ‘Emerging Markets and Financial Integration’. The conference is organised by the world-leading research institute the Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics| (CFCM) and the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus School of Economics. …

No Pain, No Gain – Cutting Subsidies is Necessary For Malaysia’s Future Prosperity

The University of Nottingham Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, Malaysia in association with The British High Commission KL invites you to attend the first in a series of highly topical  panel debates: No Pain, No Gain – Cutting Subsidies is Necessary For Malaysia’s Future Prosperity. Malaysia faces burgeoning government debt, depleting oil reserves and the threat of …

Centre for Advanced Study UNMC Engagement Week

Responding to popular demand, we are delighted to welcome Professor Pat Thomson, Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Advanced Study, Nottingham UK, back to UNMC for a week of research and academic development activities. She will run a reprise of her successful Writing Workshop (both Shut Up and Write time and advice on Pitching to Refereed …

Invitation to participate in the International Exhibition and Competition “Invention, Innovation and Design Exposition 2014”

We have been asked by FASS to share information above this event. The research showcase themes cut across different faculties and it might be of interest for many staff. More details are available on this these two flyers (here and here).

So, you wanna consult

Some academics at UNMC carry out consultancy (remembering, of course, that you need to request to carry out external work). We were recently interested to see a blog post from the NUBS Postgrad Careers blog. The post is aimed mainly at postgrads but we thought that it might be of interest to anybody who sees …

SSCI Annual Corporate Awards: Appreciation for UNMC

Congratulations to Dr Angelina Yee, who has been recognised, along with UNMC, as being an adjudicator for the SSCI Annual Corporate Awards 2013.