The Malaysian government signed a strategic partnership with four Irish universities’ schools of medicine in relation to the continued promotion of the study of medicine by Malaysian students in Ireland.

The Memorandum of Understanding in higher education was signed by Datuk Ibrahim Bin Ahmad, the Director General of MARA, an agency of the Malaysian Ministry of Rural and Regional Development, and representatives from each of the four schools of medicine in UCC, NUI Galway, UCD and TCD, member institutions of the Irish Universities and Medical Schools Consortium (IUMC), at Trinity College Dublin on July 28th last. The signing was witnessed by the Malaysian Minister of Rural and Regional Development, His Respectable Dato’ Seri Hj. Mohd Shafie Bin Haji Apdal.

Welcoming the new partnership with the Malaysian government, the IUMC Chairperson, Professor Shorten said: “The IUMC warmly welcomes this agreement which will serve to strengthen the close and very successful relationships which currently exist between our constituent universities, the Malaysian government and the Malaysian government agency, Majlis Amanah Rakyat.”

Source: http://www.tcd.ie