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Data is a powerful enabler that serves to drive new insights, innovate, and bring forth new knowledge. It is a highly valuable resource that institutions should not neglect in proper safekeeping. But how does one keep data securely and effectively utilize it? Dr. Taizan Chan, Chief Data Officer of National University of Singapore, is here to explain how their data infrastructure answers this question.

At the 13th AUN Rectors’ Meeting, Dr. Nghiem Xuan Huy, Director of the Institute for Education Quality Assurance (INFEQA) of Viet Nam National University, Hanoi (VNU Hanoi), presented data strategies to utilize data to its maximum extent and boost its ability to complete high-impact missions. Because of the exponential growth in the magnitude of data, INFEQA developed the VNU Quality Assurance Portal to manage the quality assurance data and university ranking processes for VNU Hanoi and its member universities.

Data is constantly scaling up in the world at every passing moment. Everyday there is more data and at a rapidly growing rate. Keeping track of it all is a challenging endeavor, but Universiti Sains Malaysia has Four Data Strategies that helps overcome this challenge. At the 13th AUN Rectors’ Meeting, Prof. Dr. Narimah Samat highlighted impressive high impact achievements of USM and shared valuable knowledge on Data Strategies.

Since the rise to prominence of the internet, ‘data’ is the big word everyone has been talking about, and the 13th AUN Rectors’ Meeting did not miss out on it as well! In this week’s coverage of the 13th AUN Rectors’ Meeting, we invite you to our third agenda, “Data Strategies and the Achievements of High-Impact University Missions,” where distinguished representatives from member universities shared how they are using data strategies to achieve high-impact university missions.

The days of the past where education is solely focused in a single discipline are soon to be phased out of today’s curriculums. Prof. Bundhit Eua-arporn, Ph.D., President of Chulalongkorn University (CU), presented how the future ASEAN Higher Education will be heading towards interdisciplinarity and shared how CU has been developing their vast network of education institutions. With a strong and wide network along with interdisciplinary education, CU is fully capable of preparing future generations towards a world of professional work that no longer desires graduates of a single discipline, but one with jobs that require a wide variety of skills.

At the 13th Rector’s Meeting, Prof. Dato’ Ir. Dr. Mohd Hamdi Abd Shuko, Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Malaya (UM), introduced UM’s interdisciplinary approaches through four different directions: Academic Programmes, Research, Industry Engagement and New Rationalisation Entity with the goal of redefining problems outside of traditional boundaries and reaching solutions based on a new understanding of a complex world.