APEX journey towards a sustainable future

UNIVERSITI Sains Malaysia (USM) "celebrated" its first anniversary of being conferred the APEX (Accelerated Programme for Excellence) status last year. This highly innovative initiative, which was launched as a component of the National Higher Education Strategic Plan in 2007, saw USM a...

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Main Author: Abd Razak, Dzulkifli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/32712/1/DZUL96.pdf
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Summary:UNIVERSITI Sains Malaysia (USM) "celebrated" its first anniversary of being conferred the APEX (Accelerated Programme for Excellence) status last year. This highly innovative initiative, which was launched as a component of the National Higher Education Strategic Plan in 2007, saw USM adopting a new vision statement Transforming Higher Education for a Sustainable Tomorrow. This, in part, is the result of a Scenario Planning exercise undertaken by the university in 2005 which lasted for about 18 months.