Volgograd State Medical University and the Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia) have signed the Memorandum of Understanding to establish cooperative relationship between our universities

In the framework of the Universiti Teknologi MARA (leading State University of Malaysia) 50th anniversary celebration there was held a conference, dedicated to the problems of internationalization of universities. Many chancellors and vice-chancellors of well-known European universities from Great Britain, Germany, Russia, France, Italy and their colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Japan, India and some other countries were among honourable guests.

The Universiti Teknologi MARA is one of the biggest universities of Malaysia. The Chancellor of this university is the King of Malaysia. Nowadays the university is headed by the Vice-Chancellor Dato’ Seri Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Abu Shah. Russian universities were represented by the delegation of the Volgograd State Medical University headed by prof. A.A.Spasov, Vice-Chancellor for International Affairs.

The programme of the conference included four key-note speakers presentations on issues of university education internationalization. The key speakers at this conference were Ms. D. Bredly, Chancellor, Southern University, Australia, Mr. Tim Wilson, Vice - Chancellor, Hertfordshire University, Great Britain, Prof. A. A. Spasov, Vice-Chancellor, VolSMU and Mr. R. Murrey, Vice - Chancellor, Metropolitan University, Manchester. The presentation of prof. A.A. Spasov caused a great interest, that said about recognition of the Russian Medical School and the Russian system of education.

While the work of the conference the Volgograd State Medical University and the Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia) signed the Memorandum of Understanding to establish a productive working relationship to collectively and separately make their best efforts to focus on the development of the affiliation programmes to meet the needs of both the universities. One of the reasons for inviting the Volgograd State Medical University for affiliation was the fact that after visiting our university, our colleagues from the Universiti Teknologi MARA had made a decision to use our experience in creating their own faculties for General Medicine and for Dentistry. The leadership of the universities is going to make an emphasis on the development of training programmes, collaborative research programmes, faculty and students exchange programmes and etc.