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Thursday, October 16, 2014

UMS promotes only the deserving

Vice Chancellor says paper qualifications, service duration and attitude are important factors.
Universiti-Malaysia-SarawakKOTA KINABALU: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) does not make it easy for any teaching staff to get promoted while ensuring that only the deserving move up the organisational pyramid.
“The university maintains a very high stand for academic staff and only those who are fully qualified, in terms of paper qualifications, duration of service and attitude, get promoted,” said UMS Vice Chancellor Mohd Harun Abdullah in a statement.
“UMS does not pick who gets promoted based on other factors. We are not biased in any way or towards anyone.”
He was giving his take on 47 teaching staff who were promoted on Tuesday.
He acknowledged that there were cases where academic staff appeared to meet all the necessary requirements but were denied promotions. “This is because they had attitude or disciplinary problems,” he explained. “In that case, they would not be offered any promotion.”
He underlined that commitment and a sense of responsibility, especially among lecturers and professors, were necessary pre-conditions for a university to turn out high quality human capital for the country.
Still, despite the high standards set for moving up and the promotion criteria, he noted, an increasing number were being promoted every year. He attributes this to the academic staff being capable and not due to other reasons like staff turnover.
Kuala Lumpur-born newly-promoted Associate Professor Dr. Lai Yew Meng, who has been promoted thrice since joining the Promotion of Language and Learning Centre at UMS in 1997, considers Sabah his home.
He is married to UMS lecturer Dr. Maurene De Silva, a local who is with the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Heritage.
Dr. Malehah Mohd Noh, a medical doctor who left a government hospital in 2006 to join the UMS teaching staff, was also among those promoted.
“I can do more than just being a doctor,” said Dr. Malehah who has been promoted to Medical Lecturer. “I wanted to help turn out doctors.”

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