July 14, 2008 22:35 PM
UMT Sets Up Centres To Spur ECER Development
KUALA TERENGGANU, July 14 (Bernama) -- The Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) has set up several centres to help spur the development in the East Coast Economic Region (ECER).
Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Nur Zahirah, who is UMT Chancellor, said the centres are facility training management centre, social development centre, biodiversity centre as well as an oceanography and an academia.
"UMT's involvement in the national programme showed that the society is recognising the university's role and ability to spur the country's development, particularly in Terengganu," she said at the 6th UMT Convocation involving 1,616 students Monday.
Also present was the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, accompanied by Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin, Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said and UMT Vice-Chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Sulaiman Md Yassin.
At the event, two UMT students -- Mohd Uzair Rusli who holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology and Christopher Tan Yuet Han (Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences) -- received the royal education award.
-- BERNAMA
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