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  • SEARCA successfully concludes landmark Institutional Development Assistance (IDA) project

    SEARCA has marked the completion of one of its Institutional Development Assistance (IDA) projects, the Leveling-up Philippine Higher Education Institutions in Agriculture, Fisheries, and Natural Resources (LevelUPHEI AFAR), funded by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The project, under CHED's International Continuing Professional Education (ICPE) program, spanned from 2021 to 2023 and included short-term training programs, mobility exchanges, summer schools, faculty-graduate forums, cross-visits, and active participation in the Southeast Asian University Consortium for Graduate Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC). The project's overarching aim was to enhance the relevance and competitiveness of the country's higher education institutions (HEIs)
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    SEARCA attended the kick-off meeting led by Kasetsart University (KU) for the Postgraduate Micro-Credentials on Food Security and Climate Change (PMC FSCC) project, held from 31 January to 1 February 2024. The initiative, funded by the European Commission ERASMUS+ Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE), spans from 2023 to 2026, aiming to deliver learner-centered short-term courses through micro-credentials to address food security and climate change concerns. The project also intends to utilize advances in digital technologies to develop and offer online modules that will address the twin issues of food security and climate change. Dr. Glenn B. Gregorio, SEARCA center
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    Thirty participants from 20 members of the State Universities and Colleges - Association of Colleges of Agriculture in the Philippines (SUC-ACAP) convened during the Culminating Forum of the Leveling-Up Philippine Higher Education Institutions in Agriculture, Fisheries, and Natural Resources or LevelUPHEI-AFAR on 15–16 November 2023. This project of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) is funded by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The attendees, comprising project alumni who undertook mobilities at the Southeast Asian University Consortium for Graduate Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC) host member universities, gathered to discuss the trajectory
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SERDANG - The Veterinary Medicine Faculty Complex, which boasted UPM’s University Veterinary Hospital (UVH) as the most advanced veterinary hospital in Southeast Asia, was launched in November 2011. Minister of Higher Education, Dato’ Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin was invited as guest of honor in the said launching.

The Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohd. Saleh Jaafar, said that it is the first veterinary teaching hospital in Malaysia equipped with facilities that fulfil international standards. 

Assoc. Prof. Datuk Dr. Bashir Ahmad Fateh Mohamed, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine said that the complex includes an Academic Block which consists of 4 teaching laboratories, 5 lecture halls, 13 tutorial rooms, an anatomy museum, an auditorium, a computer laboratory, a seminar room and a library which can accommodate 1,000 students including staff. The hospital also includes 12 diagnostic laboratories, 7 operation theaters, a Large Animal Unit, a Small Animal Unit, a Surgery Unit, theatres, a mobile clinic, a pharmacy unit, and also a radiologist and imaging unit. 

Both small and large animal wards can accommodate up to 40 and 80 animals, respectively, and can handle at most 50 cases per day. While the wards are open to the public from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM daily, there is a mobile clinic that operates 24 hours-a-day. 

"There are 50 consultants, 22 veterinary officers, and 60 support staff from various categories working in this hospital which has started operating since January this year,” Dr. Jaafar explained.
The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, through the University Veterinary Hospital, has the potential to holistically lead the needs of the country in overcoming infectious diseases which would harm human beings besides providing specific services in veterinary medicine, surgery, and diagnostic laboratories. 

“The employability of Veterinary Medicine graduates is very high. For example, the Veterinary Services Department in Malaysia is still in need of 120 veterinarians to fulfil the long-vacant positions,” Dr. Jaafar said.

In the near future, Dr. Jaafar also proposed that the curriculum of the Malaysian veterinary program be accredited internationally to ensure that their graduates will be recognized worldwide.

The Veterinary Medicine Faculty, which was built in 1973, has produced many experts and doctors in veterinary medicine for Malaysia and played an important role in the country’s knowledge transformation in the veterinary area. This faculty is the first higher education institution to obtain an accreditation in teaching, research, and professional services through MS ISO 9001 in 2000 and MS ISO/IEC 17025 in 2008. 

During the launching ceremony, two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) were signed between the faculty and Malaysian Veterinary Services Department (JPV), and with the World Wide Fund for Nature Malaysia (WWF Malaysia). These MoUs focussed on teaching, research, and professional services activities that could benefit both parties. 

Condensed from: UPM News | 1 Nov 2011

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