{"id":8487,"date":"2010-06-18T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=8487"},"modified":"2015-05-16T02:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T02:52:00","slug":"ukm-produced-quality-graduands-during-its-40-years-of-existence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/june-2010\/ukm-produced-quality-graduands-during-its-40-years-of-existence\/","title":{"rendered":"UKM produced quality graduands during its 40 years of existence"},"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%2Fyear-2010%2Fjune-2010%2Fukm-produced-quality-graduands-during-its-40-years-of-existence%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=8487&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--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/alumni%20pelancaran.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>FRIDAY, 18 JUNE 2010 19:55<br \/>\n<strong>By Abdul Ghani Nasir<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BANGI, 18 June \u2013 During the 40 years of its existance Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia has produced a total of 131,259 graduands among whom are ministers, deputy ministers, renowned medical specialist, media leaders, corporate figures, famous entrepreneurs, high ranking government officials and even civil movement activists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UKM have in fact succeeded in producing graduates not just in quantity terms but also graduates of quality, \u201c said\u00a0 the Vice Chancellor Prof. Tan Sri Dato&#8217; Dr Sharifah Hapsah\u00a0 Syed Hasan Shahabudin at the Alumni Dinner 2010 in conjunction with the 40th anniversary celebrations of UKM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also announced\u00a0 Dato\u2019 Dr. Zainuddin Md Wazir, the Chief Executive Officer of Alliance College of Medical Sciences as the golden sponsor for the dinner. He was one of\u00a0 her students and also that of her spouse, Dato\u2019 Dr Mahmud. A total of RM210,000 was collected at the function last night for the university\u2019s fund.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A UKM Alumni directory was also launched last night in an effort to record data of all of its graduates to help the university for its further development. UKM will first focus on those who are in academic field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To expediate the collection of data, UKM\u00a0has set up its Alumni Relations Centre to promote strategic collaborations and to galvanise the resources of the Alumni to develop educational activities, research as well as UKM\u2019s community service. It will also help to strengthen their networking for the development of the Alumuni members,\u00a0 said Prof Sharifah Hapsah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The centre is to help facilitate networking between Alumni members for their mutual benefits and to work strategically in contributing to society. She urged them to update their personal data on-line using the Alumni Information System which can be accessed through its website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/alumni\">www.ukm.my\/alumni<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dinner officiated by Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was attended by about 750 alumni members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking about the UKM-CIMB Credit Card which was also launched last night, she said it should help to promote the university\u2019s\u00a0 identity and generate income for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CIMB has assisted UKM as fund collector through e-banking for UKM Waqaf Fund which was launch recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Sharifah Hapsah said: \u201cThe returns from the Waqaf fund will be utilised for the Students Education and Welfare fund; Student development fund, Research and development fund and UKM industry and Community network fund.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith the availability of fund and financial resources UKM will move faster towards autonomy, an important criteria to be a world renowned University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in his speech said UKM should motivate its alumni to be more active in various fields so that the university&#8217;s excellence can be enhanced not only at the national level but also globally.<\/p>\n<p>Such initiative should be followed up with various concrete and cooperative programmes between the alumni and the university.<\/p>\n<p>He said that among the areas that could be looked into was the development of human capital involving aspects such as industrial training and student mobilisation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The alumni working in strategic institutions and firms can assist the university in providing facilities to the graduands in undergoing various forms of practical training programmes,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/alumni%20vc.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/alumni%20muyiddin.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/alumni%20dinner.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/alumni%20adiba.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY, 18 JUNE 2010 19:55 By Abdul Ghani Nasir BANGI, 18 June \u2013 During the 40 years of its existance<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/june-2010\/ukm-produced-quality-graduands-during-its-40-years-of-existence\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8488,"parent":1386,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8487","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8487","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8487\/revisions\/8489"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}