Posts by Graham Kendall
Britain loses its knack for engineering
November 27, 2012
This was recently reported on the Sunday Times web site. “Chinese teenagers are leading a surge of overseas engineering students winning places at leading universities amid a shortage of British applicants with sufficiently good grades. Weakness in physics and maths and poor advice in schools are being blamed for the near takeover by foreign students …
Doing Business in Asia – My time at our Malaysia Campus by Tracy Seng
November 26, 2012
In case you have not seen this blog post, it gives an interesting account of the time spent at the University of Nottingham International Summer School, Malaysia.
Business Engagement Visit
November 23, 2012
This week, a number of people from the UK visited UNMC with the aim of increasing Business Engagement at UNMC. The delegation was led by the Vice-Chancellor (Professor David Greenaway), who was supported by Michael Carr (Director of Business Engagement and Innovation Services) and Jason Feehily (Head of the Asia Business Centre). The UK team …
Scholar Innovation Week: Free event (26th Nov)
November 22, 2012
We have recently received information on this event. If you are interested, please let us know that you are going, but please make the arrangements yourself. We have tried to disseminate to undergraduates but feel free to do so yourself if you think that there is a particular need to do so. The documents you …
MOSTI Workshop: Report
The MOSTI workshop, organised by Nash and his team took place on the 21st Nov. We were fortunate enough to have three guest speakers: Roles of National Science and Research Council and the Focus of National Research Priorities by Dr Vilasini Pillai, Head of National Science and Research Council Malaysia (You can download the slides …
Wondering what other research is going on at the University? Take a look at Research Exchange
November 21, 2012
The University has an interesting blog which (as it says in its blurb) “Research Exchange showcases the amazing research taking place at the University of Nottingham.” Although the blog does not get many regular posts, it is still worth a read. We have even had some of our research featured there. I am sure that …
Visitors to UNMC
November 20, 2012
We are not sure how many visitors we get at UNMC in an average week. We do know that not everybody knows who is here, and what they are doing. If you have been hosting a visitor, please let us know and we’ll let everybody else know through this blog. Ideally, it should have a …
Malaysian academic named Young Chemical Engineer of the Year: Dr Denny KS Ng
November 19, 2012
In case you missed this news, Denny was recently named as Malaysian Young Chemical Engineer of the Year. Denny is the first Malaysian to receive this honour. You can read more about this, at the University of Nottingham’s Press Office blog.
The blog has a new home
November 16, 2012
You might recall that this blog actually started as a newsletter, but we quickly changed it to a blog (you can see the welcome message here). As we were still in the process of setting up blogs at UNMC, the blog was located off site, but the intention was always to locate it at the …
MOHE Research Grant Scheme Dates
The following dates might be of interest to those of you that are planning to apply for MOHE grants in the next few months. Application for Long Term Research Grant Scheme (LRGS) – 01 Oct 2012 – 19 NOV 2012 Application for Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) – 20 Dec 2012 – 20 FEB …
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