Other universities under the spotlight

OK, after highlighting the inadequacies of the profile of certain facilitators at KDMC here and here, I thought it would only be fair to examine other universities in Malaysia, both private and public.

(Incidentally, despite alerting the executive director of KMDC, the profiles of their facilitators have not been changed in regards to how they list their qualifications or the description of their job experience)

Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be looking at the CVs of teaching faculty in selected public and private universities in Malaysia notably the Universty of Nottingham's Malaysian campus, Monash's Sunway campus, MMU, UKM, USM and UM.

From my cursory web searches, these are some of my initial impressions:

1) The qualifications of the teaching faculty in these universities are legit (especially compared to the ones we've seen listed in KDMC)
2) The public universities do not list the full CVs of their teaching faculty (this is standard practice in the US) and that most of the private universities DO list the full CVs of their teaching faculty
3) There is a practice of having Associate Professors who do not have PhDs in both the public and private universities (this is very uncommon in the US although this could be justified if the person in question has an extensive publication record)
4) The private universities listed here do have active research agendas among its teaching faculty

I'll also try to highlight and compare some of the departments which I'm more familiar with and come up with some simple recommendations moving forward.

First up, USM.