USM Apex University Status: Transforming Higher Education For A Sustainable Tomorrow

Abstract

This special editorial for the month of January 2009 is “THE” interview with Professor Tan Sri Dato’ Abdul Razak, Vice Chancellor of the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He talked to us about the APEX University status that was conferred on 3rd September 2008. While most newspapers and the rest of the media were in frenzy interviewing him that month, MJMS decided to catch up with him on Monday 15th December 2008 just before the celebration at the Dewan Utama, Universiti Sains Malaysia Health Sciences Campus to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Yang Berhormat, Minister of Higher Education Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin. References to USM as an APEX University are included at the end of this editorial especially for non-USM readers.