Another UNMC First: Live Twitter feed at the U21 KWBN Global Citizenship Workshop

This post was contributed by Sean Matthews and Yeong Woon Chin, for Knowledge Without Borders Network/U21 Global Citizenship Workshop As the Vice-Provost for Research & Knowledge Transfer has already blogged about the U21 Global Citizenship live Twitter feed, which we ran throughout the event using the #U21GC hashtag (check it out!), it may be useful …

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, …

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 …

Twitter at the Global Citizenship Workshop

This week saw UNMC host, and organise, the Global Citizenship Workshop. Congratulations should go to all those involved. The sessions I attended were very good, and very well attended, and I hope that it is the catalyst for developing the various strands that were debated (and, of course scientific publications, but I have to say …

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).

The 3rd International Symposium on Processing of Foods, Vegetables and Fruits (ISPFVF 2014)

Participants are invited to submit an original research paper in their area of specialisation for oral / poster presentation. Topics available are such as food processing, food engineering, food ingredients, product development, halal food, food quality and analyses, functional food, food chemistry, food biotechnology, waste recovery and treatment, nutrition and health, packaging and storage, food …