UBD keens on formalizing partnership with AIT
Dato Paduka Dr. Haji Ismail Bin Duraman, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD) showed his interest to formalize a partnership with AIT during the visit of Prof. Vilas Wuwongse, Vice President for External Relations, to UBD as part of his trip to Brunei last 13-15 February 2007.
At UBD, Prof. Vilas presented important facts and figures on AIT, provided a brief on the proposed new charter, invitation for ASEAN countries to serve as core members of the new AIT etc. Dato Paduka Dr. Haji Ismail Bin Duraman offered to further the concept of Brunei becoming a signatory to the new AIT charter with the Ministry of Education.
Prof. Vilas also delivered a talk on 'Blogs and Digital Libraries' to the Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics, UBD, and discussed potential areas in which there could be collaboration with UBD such as faculty development for UBD's Department of Computer Science, joint master's and Ph.D. degree programs in petroleum geoscience, as well as AIT's contributions to the establishment of a new Faculty of Engineering at UBD (to branch off from the Department of Physics).