The moral of Si Tanggang's tale rings true in Belagavi
What has Si Tanggang got to do with the place? What was he doing there? Well, it all started with a campus where Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) started its “off shore” medical campus in Belagavi (a city in the southwest Indian state of Karnataka), in partnership with the local Karnataka Lingayat Ed...
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| description | What has Si Tanggang got to do with the place? What was he doing there? Well, it all started with a campus where Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) started its “off shore” medical campus in Belagavi (a city in the southwest Indian state of Karnataka), in partnership with the local Karnataka Lingayat Education (KLE) University there a decade ago in 2009. It was spurred by the need to cope with the heightened demand from qualified medical applicants for places at the USM Medical campus in Kelantan. Broached by KLE, the idea was quickly realised when the USM-KLE International Medical Programme (IMP) was set up to become the pride of both institutions with a difference. Thus far it has graduated almost 500 students who were fully integrated with their fellow alumni from the Kelantan campus. |
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| spelling | iium-750142019-12-04T01:10:39Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/75014/ The moral of Si Tanggang's tale rings true in Belagavi Abdul Razak, Dzulkifli HT Communities. Classes. Races What has Si Tanggang got to do with the place? What was he doing there? Well, it all started with a campus where Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) started its “off shore” medical campus in Belagavi (a city in the southwest Indian state of Karnataka), in partnership with the local Karnataka Lingayat Education (KLE) University there a decade ago in 2009. It was spurred by the need to cope with the heightened demand from qualified medical applicants for places at the USM Medical campus in Kelantan. Broached by KLE, the idea was quickly realised when the USM-KLE International Medical Programme (IMP) was set up to become the pride of both institutions with a difference. Thus far it has graduated almost 500 students who were fully integrated with their fellow alumni from the Kelantan campus. New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd. 2019-09-21 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/75014/1/75014_The%20moral%20of%20Si%20Tanggang%27s.pdf Abdul Razak, Dzulkifli (2019) The moral of Si Tanggang's tale rings true in Belagavi. New Straits Times, September 21, 2019. https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnists/2019/09/523082/moral-si-tanggangs-tale-rings-true-belagavi |
| spellingShingle | HT Communities. Classes. Races Abdul Razak, Dzulkifli The moral of Si Tanggang's tale rings true in Belagavi |
| title | The moral of Si Tanggang's tale rings true in Belagavi |
| title_full | The moral of Si Tanggang's tale rings true in Belagavi |
| title_fullStr | The moral of Si Tanggang's tale rings true in Belagavi |
| title_full_unstemmed | The moral of Si Tanggang's tale rings true in Belagavi |
| title_short | The moral of Si Tanggang's tale rings true in Belagavi |
| title_sort | moral of si tanggang's tale rings true in belagavi |
| topic | HT Communities. Classes. Races |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/75014/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/75014/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/75014/1/75014_The%20moral%20of%20Si%20Tanggang%27s.pdf |