{"id":2111,"date":"2014-11-01T03:45:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T03:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=2111"},"modified":"2015-04-13T03:47:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T03:47:16","slug":"ukms-efforts-have-borne-fruit-says-vc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/november-2014\/ukms-efforts-have-borne-fruit-says-vc\/","title":{"rendered":"UKM&#8217;s Efforts Have Borne Fruit, Says VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Ftahun-2014%2Fnovember-2014%2Fukms-efforts-have-borne-fruit-says-vc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=2111&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\"><span class=\"createdate\">SATURDAY, 01 NOVEMBER 2014 19:23<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/UKM42VC01.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin<br \/>\nPix Centre for Corporate Communications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 1 November 2014 &#8211; The National University of Malaysia (UKM) will continue to maintain its core principles in upholding the bumiputras and their culture while adhering to Islamic values to achieve excellence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vice-Chancellor Professor Datuk Dr Noor Azlan Ghazali said the efforts took into account the challenges faced by the university through mobilizing its increasingly diverse resources to achieve its objectives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the first session of UKM&#8217;s 42nd convocation here today, Prof Noor Azlan said such efforts became evident when UKM was ranked at number 259 in the world&#8217;s best university this year by QS University Ranking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said UKM continues to upgrade standards including producing more PhD holders. Thus this year 522 are graduating with the doctorates while 2,243 are receiving their Masters &#8211; both the highest number graduating in the history of the university.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recipients of doctors as medical specialists and dentistry increased to 190 while those receiving their bachelor&#8217;s degrees increase to 3,433.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Altogether 6,266 people graduated at this convocation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Vice-Chancellor was proud that UKM&#8217;s alumni which now totals 170,112, a large network which can contribute to its reputation. In fact, he said, UKM is now the top choice for students from 50 countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Noor Azlan said that although UKM is based on indigenous culture it nevertheless encourages its students to learn and master the world&#8217;s major languages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The university for the first time has invited its alumni to attend the convocation this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first session today was to confer the PhD awards and specialists to the Medical and Dentistry Faculties and the faculty of law.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/UKM42VC02.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/UKM42VC03.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SATURDAY, 01 NOVEMBER 2014 19:23 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Centre for Corporate Communications BANGI, 1 November 2014 &#8211; The<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/november-2014\/ukms-efforts-have-borne-fruit-says-vc\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2112,"parent":1156,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2111","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2111\/revisions\/2114"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}