In the new era of globalization, waste disposal has turned into an immense concern among the nation. Nowadays, almost every part of the world is confronting a huge issue of improper disposal, segregation and recycling solid waste. Due to rapid growth in economy, industrialization and urbanization, there is also a rapid increase of capacity and volu

TITLE: How to Respond During an Emergency at Your Workplace: The Role of Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan (EPRP) is vital in ensuring an immediate action could be taken during emergencies. The employer must ensure EPRP available in their workplace, specifically in the zone with highly risk of spills

ENTRY into any educational institution is increasingly getting diverse to reflect the growing diversity of global education. There is always more than one way if diversity in education is to be celebrated, and it is not one size fits all. This is important to improve access and success, especially in addressing heterogeneous situations peculiar to

ANOTHER type of ranking has now surfaced. A new “product line” as it were, by a familiar commercial name, made (in)famous through similar activity based prominently on research and publication. The latter is now losing “steam” as a quality concept to define what education is all about “beyond the teaching and research focus of conventiona

Raja Permaisuri Agong was appointed the university’s constitutional head (equivalent to the chancellor of a local university). The IIUM community is most fortunate to be reminded that “humility” is the hallmark of education in the Garden of Knowledge and Virtue. Therein humility is strongly advocated as the sign of a truly educated person.Sou

What has Si Tanggang got to do with the place? What was he doing there? Well, it all started with a campus where Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) started its “off shore” medical campus in Belagavi (a city in the southwest Indian state of Karnataka), in partnership with the local Karnataka Lingayat Education (KLE) University there a decade ago in

ICRIIM is an International Class Joint Conference held in order to advance relation between University of Darussalam (UNIDA) Gontor and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) which had been established since 2015 especially between Faculty of Ushuluddin UNIDA Gontor (Fakultas Ushuluddin UNIDA Gontor) and Department Usul al-Din and Compara

When it comes to issues affecting life, mental health with the threat of increasing suicidal tendencies is becoming prevalent worldwide.This was the message that was zeroed in by the organisers of the World Suicide Prevention Day when they launched the “40 seconds of action” campaign “to raise awareness of the scale of suicide around the worl

QATAR University held its Annual Research Forum and Exhibition in Doha last week. It was aimed at sharing with the larger community what has been going on in the campus covering live research demonstrations, poster presentations, sharing of graduate experiences as well as international seminars and panel discussions. The two-day event themed Resear

WE should have been jubilantly welcoming a “2020 Malaysia” based on Wawasan 2020 that was launched in 1991. It was a powerful rallying point in the drive to push Malaysia out of the middle-income trap and to be a “developed” country. But the timeline has now been extended to 2030 and another strategy adopted – the “Shared Prosperity Vis