KANGAR, Aug 19 - Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) presents its own history as the first university in the country to receive the MS ISO 9001: 2015 certification from SIRIM QAS Sdn. Bhd recently. UniMAP Vice-Chancellor Dato 'Prof. Dr. Zul Azhar Zahid Jamal said UniMAP had succeeded in achieving the target as former Former Vice-Chancellor, Brig. Jen. Prof. Emeritus Dr. Kamarudin Hussin to appear as the first Public University to obtain the certification. "This success was achieved after UniMAP successfully passed the re-certification audit and upgraded by SIRIM QAS in early June and this recognition is valid until July 2019. "I am very proud of this achievement and it is the hard work of the Corporate Development and Quality Management Center responsible for UniMAP Quality Management System coordinators," he said when met recently. Dato 'Zul Azhar hopes that the recognition will be sustained and all departments at UniMAP should jointly implement the Quality Management System based on the new MS ISO 9001: 2015 standard. For the record, UniMAP received the MS ISO 9001: 2008 certification from SIRIM in July 2013 for the Quality Management System, which is valid for three years until July 2016.