The UK-Malaysia University Consortium was launched in 2022 with the aim of expanding the scale, scope and pace of long-term international higher education engagement and collaboration between the UK and Malaysia and with partners in the wider ASEAN+3 network and beyond. Part of our world-wide Going Global Partnerships programme, this flagship initiative has been set up by the British Council in Malaysia working in cooperation with Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education. We are delighted to share that Phase 2 of the UK-Malaysia University Consortium has now commenced with continued support from the British Council.
For Phase 2 we have extended the membership to include more UK and MY universities. A complete list of member institutions will be shared soon.
Purpose
By working together, UK and Malaysia partners will:
- embrace projects that expand higher education capacity, quality, mobility and employability
- promote more inclusive and equal access to higher education
- tap the potential for outstanding advances in research, finding solutions to the critical global challenges of our age, such as climate change, healthcare and food poverty
- drive greater innovation and quality in teaching and delivery
- advance progress towards shared Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- strengthen perceptions of the Malaysia and the UK as international centres of higher education excellence and progress, enabling them to better compete for new collaborative initiatives and resources
- develop a fresh, intense and sustainable programme of international collaborative excellence
- support partnerships that focus on desired outcomes set out in the higher education strategies of the UK and Malaysia
Like the UK, Malaysia sees sustainable international partnership as the best way to hasten advances in quality, research innovation and capacity. It seeks to create talented, resilient and entrepreneurial graduates who are employable, open to diverse international perspectives and who take ownership of the future of their own country within the wider world.