UM SHARING EXPERTISE IN BM WITH SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 (Bernama) -- Singapore's youngest private university,
SIM University (UniSIM), is cooperating with Malaysia's Universiti Malaya (UM)
in its move to expand the use of Bahasa Malaysia (Malay language) at the
international level through sharing of expertise, syllabus and training.

UniSIM president Prof Cheong Hee Kiat said the two universities hoped they
would realise the objective through such cooperation forged for UniSIM's
Bachelor in Malay Language and Literature programme.

"Although we do have our resources in Singapore, it's nothing like
having the experts and people who use the language daily. And UM has a long
history of teaching the programme and it's really good to have this
collaboration.

"I am sure our lecturers for the programme's first intake this month will
be very excited to start the programme and getting engaged with the experts in
this area," he told reporters after signing a memorandum of understanding on the
matter with UM at UM's Chancellery Building here Tuesday.

UM was represented by its vice-chancellor Prof Dr Ghauth Jasmon, who said
that currently there were three academic staff from UM's Malay Studies Academy
conducting lectures at UniSIM.

He hoped that in future there would be a students' exchange programme
between both universities.

"As UM has many experts in language and liguistics, I hope this will be the
starting point and to see the collaboration expanded in future," he added.
-- BERNAMA