UniMAP Moves With KPM, Committed to Achieving Seven KPIs
Arau, January 1 - Perlis Malaysia's university (UniMAP) starts a new year with determination and determination to move in tandem with seven Ministry of Higher Education (KPI) performance indicators set by its Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh.
UniMAP vice-chancellor, Brig. Jen. Prof. Emeritus Dr. Kamarudin Hussin, in his new year's message, said in 2016 promised a huge challenge, especially by reducing the allocation of manageable expenses by seven percent.
He said the challenge this year was huge when UniMAP needed to generate more financial resources to cover operating expenses without raising student tuition fees.
On that basis, Dr. Kamarudin called on all UniMAP citizens to work together with him to change and change both the attitude, the minds, the habits and practices of working to ensure UniMAP can continue to operate and educate the nation.
"In response to changes that demand us to change positively, UniMAP is committed to promoting KPIs through initiatives that have been outlined to ensure that UniMAP's competitive culture can continue hereafter.
"It should be noted that the KPI needs to be reported to the Prime Minister whose target set requires us to make some changes by implementing fresh, efficient, effective collective new initiatives," he said.
He said this when delivering the 2016 New Year's Message to UniMAP's top management as well as administrators and lecturers at the Excellence Hall here today.
According to Dr. Kamarudin further, given that financial raising is a key focus of UniMAP, Datuk Prof. Dr. Salleh Din has been appointed as Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Corporate Sustainability) which among others is responsible for implementing comprehensive university financial activity among them through a comprehensive short-term course offering by each School in UniMAP.
In addition, Dr. Kamarudin explained that UniMAP is committed to achieving the target of 80 per cent of students getting jobs within six months of graduating from around 72 per cent this year.
He said that if previously, the matter was placed under the responsibility of the Center for Industrial and Government Cooperation (CIGC), but this year every school should have a representative or committee responsible for planning, monitoring and follow-up action.
He pointed out, the aspect of internationalization was also emphasized when UniMAP set a target of achieving 950 international students enrolling in postgraduate and postgraduate students.
"The field of research is also the focus of UniMAP so we will ensure that all Center of Excellence (COE) will be accelerated to produce more high-quality research publications as well as carefully planning research sessions for Scopus and other bodies to be utilized.
"We will also seek new sources of funding within and outside the country to fund research activities as well as win" win-win "affiliations and collaborations with universities and research institutes as well as international researchers," he said.
