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UNITEN Collaborates with IBM in Academic Initiative Program

IBM and Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop new IT and business skill courses that allow students to become more marketable with skills from business and IT in its IBM-UNITEN Academic Initiative program.

Ramanathan Sathiamutty, Managing Director, IBM Malaysia (left) exchanging the MoU document on the IBM-UNITEN Academic Initiative program with Dato’ Seri Prof. Mashkuri bin Yaacob, Vice Chancellor, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, witnessed by Dr. Na’imah Md Khalil, Director of Enforcement and Inspectorate, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia.

 

The IBM Academic Initiative provides UNITEN with benefits such as training programs for the academic faculty, free IBM software for the university's educational requirements, assistance in deployment of IBM software and internships for students. The initiative aims to enhance the IT curriculum at UNITEN by arming students with high quality software skills and a professional IBM certification.

“IBM has been working with universities and organizations to identify the skills needed in this ever-changing world economy. We have found that there is a great demand for skilled IT employees to manage complex processes and functions as well as efficient data management, due to the flood of data collected by companies over time. This Academic Initiative collaboration will enable UNITEN to produce graduates with relevant IT knowledge and skills, who will contribute to the industry both, locally and globally,” said Ramanathan Sathiamutty, Managing Director of IBM Malaysia.

UNITEN has now became part of a large network of top universities in Malaysia and around the world who make up the IBM Academic Initiative network. This allows the use of IBM's technology as a platform of training, teachings and even research purposes in order to help more than 4600 universities and community colleges around the world to provide students with competitive business and IT skills.