UBD hosts AGBEP meeting
By CT Hj Mahmod

From right to left: Professor Dr Nantana Gajaseni, Dr Hj Ismail Hj Duraman, Dr Marwan Asri and Dr Ronny Muntoro at yesterday's 4th Annual meeting of AGBEP. Photo: Siti Rahmah

Member countries of the Asean Graduate Business/Economics Programme (AGBEP) Network discussed and reviewed progress report on its student and faculty exchange program at its 4th annual meeting yesterday morning.

The meeting gathered scholars and academia of various universities from respective Asean countries with the objective to internationalise and improve the quality of the AUN Member Universities' graduate business and economics programmes.

The University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD) hosted this one-day meeting for the first time, said Dr Hj Ismail Hj Duraman, Vice Chancellor of UBD during his welcoming remarks yesterday morning at the Centrepoint Hotel.

Amongst others, he hoped that the meeting would achieve the objectives and give room to exchange ideas, as well as to work on the employment of activities for members.

Present yesterday were the AUN Deputy Executive Director, Professor Dr Nantana Gajaseni and co-Chairmen of AGBEP, Professor Dr Marwan Asri from the Gadjah Mada University and Dr Ronny Muntoro from Universitas Indonesia, who on behalf of the Chairman of AGEB, Professor Bambang Sudibyo from Gadjah Mada University, gave a brief speech.

AGBEP Network has undertaken cost-sharing activities, namely; student and faculty exchange programmes, providing opportunities for students and faculties to learn from other network members, joint research and publication programme for resources sharing and research collaboration and annual symposium for updating the implementation of each activity and discussing issues concerning the improvement of the network.

Yesterday's meeting concludes today and covered topics on progress reports on the implementation of AGBEP network activities on student and faculty exchange programme and AUN Collaborative Research Programme - 'Development and Performance of Mutual Funds in Five Asean Countries'.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin