I was intrigued by the recent news in the Star (7\/9\/2007) about new deputy vice-chancellor's post created in all the public universities <\/a> to help link its research development with infrastructure development. For starters, UM announced the appointment of <\/a>Prof Dr Khaw Lake Tee<\/a> as the new deputy V-C (development) with effect from Sept 1 to Aug 31, 2010 in the same article. This was followed by this article in Star again (8\/9\/2007), which saw UPM appoint <\/a>Prof Dr Tai Shzee Yew<\/a> as its new deputy vice-chancellor (VC) (industry and society). UNIVERSITI Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) has appointed a new vice-chancellor<\/a>, Prof Datuk Dr Aminah Ayob, with effect from Sept 1 as mentioned in the article on 9\/9\/2007. Finally, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) has appointed Prof Dr Saran Kaur Gill <\/a> as its deputy vice-chancellor (industry and community relations).<\/p>\n Prof Dr Saran's bio:<\/p>\n
| \t\t \t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n A socio-linguistics expert with the Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Prof Dr Saran’s new role will be to foster closer ties between the university and industry, as well as the community, the university said in a press release yesterday. <\/p>\n The 54-year-old lecturer holds an honour’s degree in Arts from Universiti Malaya, a Diploma in Education specialising in the Teaching of English as a Second Language, a Master’s in Education and a PhD from the Insti-tute of Education at the University of London. She began her career in UKM in 1976 as a language teacher. <\/p>\n Her achievements include sitting on the Unesco Scientific Committee for the Asia-Pacific Region for Higher Education, Research and Knowledge in 2004, and receiving the Fulbright Scholars Award. – source<\/a><\/p>\n |