The Sultan of Perak, Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, said universities must provide ample knowledge to our future workforce, which is willing to innovate. Sultan Nazrin said e-commerce companies Alibaba, from China and Amazon, from the United States, are the best exemplars of how the Internet plays a big role in the digital economy. "Universities need to make a paradigm shift from being merely an institution to being an active and important participant in the digital ecosystem. Sultan Nazrin said the combination of traditional higher education with an increasing trend in MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) is indeed an important step to scaling up quality education. Sultan Nazrin later presented scrolls to more than 400 graduates.

Source: New Strait Times November 19, 2016 05:20 UTC