UNAIR NEWS 鈥聽UNAIR has made another efforts to be a world-class university.聽Breakthroughs continued to be made.聽One of them is by actively participating in various world-class events and forums.聽In the third week of November 2017, UNAIR participated the 13th QS Asia-Pacific Leaders in Education Forum (QS-APPLE) in Taiwan.
In the prestigious event attended by the rectors of the Asia Pacific, the Rector of UNAIR Prof.聽Dr.聽Moh.聽Nasih, SE., MT., Ak., CMA., had the honor to give a聽keynote speech.聽On that occasion, he presented ideas relating to the theme of Challenges and Opportunities of Higher Education in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution鈥.
Besides the Rector, three UNAIR Vice Rectors will also deliver聽speech聽in the event held in Taichung, Taiwan.聽Regarding UNAIR’s activities in the forum,聽UNAIR News聽succeeded in collecting their activity report via telephone through Viqi Ardaniah, M.A. Linguistics., as representative of the delegation.
Viqi said the event was a response to boost UNAIR’s internationalization.聽She added that it was also an effort to introduce UNAIR to the wider world of academics.
“The involvement of our leadership in the event is a testament and a real effort to enhance the internationalization of UNAIR,” she said.
Not only that, according to Viqi, various international programs that UNAIR do also receive a positive response from representatives of the world universities attending in the event.聽Thus, Viqi hoped that many international partnership programs between UNAIR and various universities in the world can work well.
“They are interested in our AMERTA program.聽Hopefully with this there will be many other partnership programs we can establish, ” she said.
In that occasion, UNAIR was awarded as a winner of creative聽video competition.聽The video produced by UNAIR Information and Public Relations Center (PIH) was titled ”聽Teaching Generation“.聽Regarding the competition, Viqi admitted that the video was prepared a month before the event.
“There are five competitions in the forum.聽Alhamdulillah, we follow the video competition and got second place, “said Viqi with pride.
Author: Nuri Hermawan
Editor: Feri Fenoria
