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It is regarded as an objective,
robust and transparent system
which uses a global performance
table that judges research intensive
universities across all their key mis-
sions, including teaching, research,
knowledge transfer and industry in-
come and international outlook.
Carefully calibrated perfor-
mance indicators provide a com-
prehensive and balanced compari-
son of universities across the globe.
UBD is currently the only university
in Brunei Darussalam placed in both
the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)
and THE World University Rankings,
a major milestone for the 35-year
old university.
In the recently announced THE
World University Rankings, UBD per-
formed particularly well in interna-
tional outlook and research impact.
Positioned at 123rd in the world,
international outlook looks at the
percentage of international staff,
international students as well as in-
ternational collaborative research.
This shows that UBD has solid
networks and partners globally to
ensure high quality and credible
teaching and research. In research
impact, UBD is placed in the top
80 percentile, joining the ranks of
the top 20 per cent of universities
in terms of research publications
and citations. This is aligned to
UBD’s ˆield-weighted citation index,
a measure of research impact by
Scopus SciVal.
UBD‘s score this year is 1.86
which means UBD’s research im-
pact is 86 per cent higher than
that of global average, a jump from
last year’s score of 1.36. Another
key indicator measured by THE is
the quality of teaching in a univer-
sity in which UBD has improved its
score and position from last year.
In teaching (learning environment),
the ranking exercise uses the repu-
tation survey, staff-to-student ratio,
doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio, doc-
torates-awarded-to-academic-staff
ratio, and institutional income.
This indicator gives a sense of
UBD’s commitment to produce high
quality graduates for the country.
Teaching and learning in UBD
was, and remains the key focus for
UBD, producing the next generation
of future-ready leaders.
Through its ˆlagship GenNEX
programme, students excel ac-
cording to their individual learn-
ing styles. The broad-based and
transdisciplinary approach pro-
vides the ˆlexibility and adaptabil-
ity necessary for students to fully
explore their potential hands-on.
It caters to individual needs while
addressing the needs of a constantly
fast changing world environment
and demands of the workplace.
One of the key elements of the
GenNEXT programme is the Dis-
covery Year offering opportunities
to gain skills and experience both
locally and internationally. Discov-
ery Year requires students to do
one or a combination of four op-
tions: a study abroad programme,
an internship, an innovation and
incubation project, or a community
outreach project.
This year, with the challenges
due to the COVID‚19 global pan-
demic, some students have suc-
cessfully conducted internships
and overseas studies virtually.
Adjusting and assimilating to the
“new normal”, students were able
to continue reaping the beneˆits
of working closely with institutions
and companies overseas albeit
missing out on the physical travel.
An example is participation in a vir-
tual internship with TOQQA Global,
based in Melbourne, Australia with
personal mentorship from TO-
QQA Global CEO and co-founder
Michelle Curry.
The internship period was pri-
marily a discovery phase to induct
the interns and familiarise them
with the business, solution and pro-
gramme work.
Combined with these opportu-
nities, UBD reviews its courses and
curriculum to stay relevant to the
nation’s needs. New courses and
majors ˆill the national demand for
expertise in various ˆields.
Latest additions to UBD’s cur-
riculum are the Bachelor of Busi-
ness (Major in Entrepreneurship),
Master of Science in Petroleum
Geoscience as well as an upcom-
ing Bachelor of Digital Science.
Covering key digital technologies
in the Industrial Revolution (IR)
4.0, the Bachelor of Digital Sci-
ence will contribute to the human
capacity building of local talents
in the most advance ˆields in the
digital world.
The four majors covered include
Computer Science, Data Science,
Artiˆicial Intelligence and Robotics,
and Cybersecurity and Forensics.
This ensures that local human ca-
pacity will not only be conˆined to
the existing limited local market but
are also competent to adopt latest
and emerging technologies to di-
versify the market in the country.
In developing local expertise,
part of this success lies within
the internationalisation of UBD’s
education. Through partnerships
with top tiered international uni-
versities, UBD conducts collab-
orative and joint programmes to
students such as Dual Degree Pro-
grammes with Korea University in
Biodiversity Studies and Sung-
kyungkwan University (SKKU) in
Industrial Engineering. Through
these programmes, UBD students
can gain skills and hands-on ex-
perience, with access to experts
and direct involvement with rel-
evant industries.
Another example of academia-
industry collaborative programme
is the joint Chemical and Process
Engineering Scholarship Pro-
gramme of Hengyi Industries which
includes study at Zhejiang Univer-
sity in China for a year and indus-
trial training at Hengyi Industries’
petrochemical plant.
Once they have competed the
programme, students will be of-
fered a position at Hengyi Indus-
tries. Another joint programme
is the Master of Public Policy and
Management (MPPM), a 12-month
programme where students spend
a semester in one of the partner
policy schools in the United States
of America (USA) namely McCourt
School of Public Policy, George-
town University; School of Public
Policy, University of Maryland; San-
ford School of Public Policy, Duke
University; and Goldman School of
Public Policy, University of Califor-
nia, Berkeley.
UBD’s curriculum and peda-
gogy is geared towards preparing
students for the workforce, making
them employable.
The university aims to train valu-
able manpower for the country and
produce future-ready graduates
who ˆit the different needs of the
world. In ensuring this, teaching
in the university has gone uninter-
rupted even as Brunei Darussalam
faced the COVID‚19 pandemic.
Delivering a titah at the 29th
Convocation Ceremony, His Majesty
Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah
Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-
Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali
Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien,
Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of
Brunei Darussalam, as Chancellor
of UBD pointed out how rankings
are an important measure of a
university at the international level.
His Majesty also stressed the need to
ensure the relevance of high quality
programmes to produce marketable
and future-ready graduates.
“Alhamdulillah, with the support
from the Government of His Majes-
ty as well as the concerted efforts
from staff and students, UBD has
shown remarkable growth, Masya
Allah, ” said UBD Vice-Chancellor
Datin Dr Hajah Anita Binurul Zahrina
binti Pehin Orang Kaya Laila Wijaya
Dato Seri Setia Haji Awang Abdul
Aziz. “Insya Allah, with employing
quality teaching techniques espe-
cially with UBD now entering its
new norm of structured, student-
centric blended learning, we hope
to provide the best education to
our students to empower future-
ready leaders and produce valued
members of the workforce.”
UBD breaks into top 400 in THE World
University Rankings
TOKYO (AP) — Japan is bracing for a dan-
gerously powerful typhoon approaching
its southern regions this weekend on
the heels of an earlier storm that injured
dozens of people in the country and on
the Korean Peninsula.
Typhoon Haishen, or Sea God in Chi-
nese, could bring nearly unprecedent-
edly severe rain, rough waves and high
tides to Okinawa and Kyushu by early to-
morrow, Japan Meteorological Agency
ofˆicials said.
Agency weather forecaster Yoshihisa
Nakamoto, in a televised news confer-
ence, urged people in the typhoon’s path
to take precautions and secure extra
stocks of water, food and other neces-
sities. The typhoon was moving north in
the Paciˆic Ocean at a speed of 15 kilo-
metres per hour. By tomorrow it is pro-
jected to have winds of up to 198km/h.
Ofˆicials said Haishen is comparable
to a September 1959 typhoon that killed
more than 5,000 people in central Japan.
Japan bracing for dangerously
powerful typhoon
WELLINGTON (CNA) - New Zealand re-
corded its ˆirst COVID‚19 death in more
than three months yesterday when a
man in his 50s succumbed to the virus.
Health ofˆicials said the man was
part of a second-wave cluster of infec-
tions that emerged in Auckland last
month, ending a spell of 102 days free
of community transmission in the South
Paciˆic nation.
The death at Auckland’s Middlemore
Hospital yesterday afternoon takes New
Zealand’s death toll from the coronavi-
rus to 23, with the most recent previous
fatality on May 24. “I acknowledge the
anxiety New Zealanders may be feeling
about today’s news, both in the wider
community and also for the family and
whanau (relatives) grieving over this
death,” Health Chief Ashley Bloomˆield
said in a statement.
“Our thoughts are with his fam-
ily and community at this time of loss
and grief.”
The Auckland cluster emerged
in a family of four and has since
grown to 152, including three
recorded yesterday.
New Zealand records first COVID-19
death in more than three months
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