UK-Malaysia Higher Education Partnerships Forum 2020
Enhancing the Sustainability of Technology Transfer and Research Management in Higher Education Institutions through strategic UK-Malaysia University Partnerships
The British Council together with the Ministry of Higher Education has been supporting the development of partnerships between Malaysia and UK higher education institutions, particularly in developing capacity for technology transfer in recent years. This forum shares a wealth of experience, accumulated first-hand by our partner institutions, looking at the obstacles, lessons learnt and the future of higher education partnerships. We would like to invite you to attend our virtual forum where we will share the results of these collaborations.
Event summary
On the 30th of November 2020, the Education team in Malaysia hosted a webinar on “Creating value through collaborations: Lessons learnt from the UK-Malaysia Higher Education Partnerships (HEP) 2020”. A total of 150 participants from higher education, industry and government sectors in UK and Malaysia attended the session.
The aim was to share the best practices from the 9 nine HEP projects which were jointly funded by the British Council and the Ministry of Higher Education, which included 10 UK and 7 Malaysian universities and covered a diverse range of activities to enhance capacity in technology transfer.
One of the key take-aways from this webinar was that although the funding and projects were relatively small scale, the opportunity had evidently been sufficient to catalyse partnerships that have delivered a number of key outcomes which indicate a sustained collaboration – including further funding, expansion into other areas (research, doctoral training and teaching) and the signing of MoUs. In this regard the programme has, despite the inevitable challenges of COVID-19, been successful. One of the project leads, Mr. Peter Collier, IP and Commercialisation Manager of Cranfield University expressed his optimism in this partnership and shared his view that the broad nature of the HEP programme provides greater potential for partner institutions to develop a deeper understanding of every step in the partnership process. Cranfield’s successful partnership with the University of Malaya through the HEP programme has led to the submission of major grant applications, notably to the Global Challenges Research Fund scheme which provides a funding source for strong research-led activity.
Summary of key take-aways:
On the 30th of November 2020, the Education team in Malaysia hosted a webinar on “Creating value through collaborations: Lessons learnt from the UK-Malaysia Higher Education Partnerships (HEP) 2020”. A total of 150 participants from higher education, industry and government sectors in UK and Malaysia attended the session.
The aim was to share the best practices from the 9 nine HEP projects which were jointly funded by the British Council and the Ministry of Higher Education, which included 10 UK and 7 Malaysian universities and covered a diverse range of activities to enhance capacity in technology transfer.
One of the key take-aways from this webinar was that although the funding and projects were relatively small scale, the opportunity had evidently been sufficient to catalyse partnerships that have delivered a number of key outcomes which indicate a sustained collaboration – including further funding, expansion into other areas (research, doctoral training and teaching) and the signing of MoUs. In this regard the programme has, despite the inevitable challenges of COVID-19, been successful. One of the project leads, Mr. Peter Collier, IP and Commercialisation Manager of Cranfield University expressed his optimism in this partnership and shared his view that the broad nature of the HEP programme provides greater potential for partner institutions to develop a deeper understanding of every step in the partnership process. Cranfield’s successful partnership with the University of Malaya through the HEP programme has led to the submission of major grant applications, notably to the Global Challenges Research Fund scheme which provides a funding source for strong research-led activity.