About the Business Excellence Awards 2022

The British Malaysia Chamber of Commerce has recently announced the Business Excellence Awards 2022. After a 2-year hiatus, the flagship event returns to honour British and Malaysian brands and personalities who have made strides to progress the business and trade landscape, across different industry and scale. This year, the grandeur event will take place at Sunway Hotel & Resort on 26th May 2022. The Awards offer a heightened standard of recognition, excellence and progress to acknowledge the bilateral achievements and success. Some of the past winners include renowned brands, such as Sports Direct, Tesco Stores, YTL Corp, Sunway Medical Center, PwC, Capital DK and Dyson Manufacturing.

UK-Malaysia Education Institutional Partnership Award

This year, the British Council in Malaysia is delighted to partner with the British Malaysia Chamber of Commerce to launch the inaugural UK-Malaysia Education Institutional Partnership Award. The outstanding award goes to a UK higher or further education institution that has partnered with Malaysian organisation(s) to deliver significant impact in the last 5 years. The joint-venture collaboration and synergies created through this partnership will have driven exceptional results and shown significant value-creation to the education sector in Malaysia, capitalising on the best of UK & Malaysia expertise through a seamless partnership.

The awards are a fantastic opportunity for British higher and further education institutions to celebrate and share your great success stories and partnership journey in Malaysia.

A. Award Criteria:

• This award is open to any sized UK higher or further education institution that has partnered with Malaysian organisation(s).
• Partnerships should have commenced no earlier than 2016.
• Applications and nominations will be opened up to UK higher and further education institutions who are listed on the UKVI Register of Licensed Sponsors (Tier 4).
• The Malaysian partner organisation must be a registered entity with the Registrar of Companies in accordance with the Companies Act, 2016, or with the Registrar of Societies in accordance with the Societies Act 1966.
• All nominations must be endorsed by a Vice-Chancellor or College Principal.

B. Judging Criteria:

A judging panel of experts in their field will evaluate each submission based on two main criteria: 

Completeness - Ability to answer and elaborate each question effectively and consistently with presentable information following the guidelines

Credibility - Support all statement with verifiable facts and data including but not limited to statistics, accreditation or certification by reputable bodies, awards or recognition, feedback by client and customers

Through the evaluation of case studies and narratives, judges will look for evidence of the following:

1. What is the strategic partnership between the Institution and its Malaysian counterpart, especially the specific roles of partners in the collaboration?
2. How has the collaboration enhanced the UK institution’s international profile and contributed to the Malaysian partner’s internationalisation?
3. What are the significant milestones, impact and outcome that this partnership has achieved in the last 3 - 5 years in at least 3 of the following areas - teaching, graduate employability, student experience, industry links, alumni relations, academic development, civic engagement, research and innovation?
4. How has it generated revenue, spurred innovation and yielded the exchange of knowledge, skills and resources between both organizations as well as the market it operates within?
5. How has the collaboration made a significant contribution to local and regional development in the UK and Malaysia?
6. What is the longer-term significance of this partnership? Has the collaboration led to other projects or enabled and fostered further collaborations with other institutions?