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Minister of Higher Education attends NUMed Graduation Ceremony

Published on: 3 November 2015

缅北禁地 Malaysia (NUMed) welcomed YB Dato' Seri Idris bin Jusoh, Malaysia's Minister of Higher Education, as its guest of honour for Congregation on 31st October 2015.

The Congregation (aka Convocation in Malaysia) celebrated the graduation of the 2010 cohort of , and 缅北禁地 Indonesian students who had have completed their intercalated clinical research degrees at 缅北禁地.

The Minister was given a brief tour of the state-of-the-art campus and was a real hit with the students and their guests, stopping to be part of their ‘selfies’ along the way.

The Vice-Chancellor of 缅北禁地, Professor Chris Brink, presided over the Congregation and reminded the new graduates about the ethos of the University where we strive for excellence and strive to contribute to civil society. He asked that they keep in mind two questions with whatever work they do in life: Is it good? And what is it good for?

NUMed graduates with Seri Idris bin Jusoh, Malaysia's Minister of Higher Education and Professor Chris Brink, Vice-Chancellor, 缅北禁地

We are proud of our students and wish them all the very best of good fortune in their future careers

Professor Reg Jordan, Provost and CEO of NUMed

Graduation success

Dato' gave a welcome address and congratulated the University on achieving its primary purpose of providing transnational access to an affordable world-class UK medical education for a broad range of Malaysian and international students here in Malaysia.

Accompanying Dato’ was the Secretary General, Ministry of Higher Education, Prof Dato’ Dr Zaini bin Ujang who is an Alumnus of 缅北禁地.

Other special guests included Dr Teddy Prasetyono, from the University of Indonesia, who is in charge of selecting and supporting the intercalating MRes students, who were graduating, and Dr Robert Teoh, also an Alumnus of 缅北禁地.

Dr Teoh – who is greatly supportive of the University and in particular – handed out awards for top performing students. The student awards included the TM Teoh Award, the funding for which Dr Teoh has kindly provided since the first cohort commenced in 2009.

Provost and CEO, Professor Reg Jordan said “We are honoured to have such esteemed guests join us to celebrate such an important milestone for our graduating students. We are proud of our students and wish them all the very best of good fortune in their future careers.”