Research University Criteria
As known, IIUM is aiming at becoming a Research University by the year 2015. The following is the 100% components of Research University’s Ranking in Malaysia. Among those is highest with the Quality & Quantity of Research (30%).
- Quality & Quantity of Researcher - 25%
- Quality & Quantity of Research - 30%
- Quality & Quantity of Postgraduates -15%
- Research Innovation - 10%
- Professional Services & Gifts - 7%
- Networking & Linkages - 8%
- Support Facilities - 5%
Total 100%
Quality & Quantity of Research - 30%
The KPI for Quality and Quantity of Research are:-
a. Total number of publications in citation- indexed journals including refereed proceedings
b. Cummulative impact factor of publications
c. Cumulative Citation Index
d. Total number of publications in non- citation- indexed Journal
e. Total number of books authored
f. Total number of chapters in books
g. Other Publications that have created an impact to government/ society/ policy ( abstracts, articles in magazines, newsletters, etc- not including unpublished reports)
You can access the full Questionnaire for research University Criteria from here.
Online Conference
Online Conference QS Academia
# Selected papers from the Inaugural QS Academia Conference will be uploaded to view (read-only) on 5th/6th May 2009.
# Authors of those papers presented for the Online Conference have given their consent and will be available to respond to comments and questions during the time that their papers are available here on the blog.
# If you wish to make comments or ask questions you may do this using the comment facility on the blog. Please note that all messages will be moderated by the Conference Directors.
# If you wish to participate, please ensure that you provide your name and affiliation as anonymous comments will not be be displayed.
# Alternatively, the papers will be displayed with email addresses of the authors so that you may contact them directly.
# Please note that you should raise specific issues concerning individual papers with their authors.
# The Conference Directors hope that as many people as possible will be able to gain access to the outcome of QS Academia.
# Following the Online Conference a book containing all the papers will be available for purchase.
QS Academia
The Procurement and Project Delivery System Research Unit and Department of Quantity Surveying, International Islamic University Malaysia, will be organizing a conference on contemporary issues confronting quantity surveying in academia, research, training and development on 5th May 2009.
This one day conference attempts to achieve the following key objectives:
* Promote the roles and functions of quantity surveyors in academia, research, training and development
* Establish cooperation between quantity surveyors from within academia and their industrial counterparts
* Exchange ideas and establish collaboration in harmonizing teaching, learning and training of quantity surveyors among the different institutions of higher learning, research and training.
* To identify challenges and constraints facing quantity surveyors in academia and develop strategies to overcome these problems
Date:Â 05/05/2009 - 05/05/2009
Time:Â 08:00 am - 05:00 pm
Venue:Â International Islamic University Malaysia
Contact:Â Nor Aiza Md. Hashim (603-6196 5271) / Hasnita Ahmad (603-6196 5241)
URL :Â http://qsacademia.blogspot.com/
Organized by Kulliyyah Of Architecture And Environmental Design
European English
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as ‘Euro-English’.
In the first year, ’s’ will replace the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard ‘c’ will be dropped in favour of ‘k’. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome ‘ph’ will be replaced with ‘f’. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kanbe expekted to reach the stage where! more komplikated changes are possible.
Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent ‘e’ in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.
By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing ‘th’ with ‘z’ and ‘w’ with ‘v’.
During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary ‘o’ kan be dropd from vordskontaining ‘ou’ and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl