About the Business Excellence Awards 2023

The British Malaysia Chamber of Commerce has recently announced the Business Excellence Awards 2023. The awards were established in 2018 to celebrate the long-standing business relations between the UK and Malaysia. The awards also aim to honour the best of British and Malaysian brands and personalities who have made a significant impact in the business and trade landscape, across various industry and scale.

This year, the event will be held in St. Regis Hotel, Kuala Lumpur on 8^th June 2023. 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 2023

The UK-Malaysia Educational Institutional Partnership Award 2023 is an award category by the British Council in partnership with the British Malaysia Chamber of Commerce as part of the prestigious Business Excellence Awards. The outstanding award aims to honour a UK higher or further education institution that has partnered with Malaysian organisation(s) that has delivered significant impact in the last 5 years. The partnership will have contributed exceptional results and shown significant value creation to the Malaysian education sector along with capitalising the best of UK and Malaysia expertise.

In the previous year, Lancaster University was named the winner of the award for their partnership with Sunway University in establishing the Future Cities Research Institute (FCRI) as well as for their multidimensional partnerships in creating jobs and encouraging knowledge transfer, which benefits both Malaysia and the UK over a longer-term. FCRI brings together expertise from across the disciplines of both universities, connecting with stakeholders in Malaysia, South-East Asia and across the globe.

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

1. Eligibility Criteria

• This award is open to partnerships between UK higher or further education institution and a Malaysian organisation(s) of any size. 
• Partnerships should have commenced no earlier than 2017.
• 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 legally registered entity in Malaysia either with the Registrar of Companies in accordance with the Companies Act, 2016, the Registrar of Societies in accordance to the Societies Act 1966 or others.
• All UK nominations must be endorsed by a Vice-Chancellor or College Principal, and senior leadership of the Malaysian Partner.
• The winner of this Award Category in the 3rd BMCC Business Excellence Award 2022 is not eligible to submit for this same category this year.

2. Judging Criteria

• An independent and experienced judging panel will evaluate each submission based on two main criteria:

Completeness

Ability to answer and elaborate on each question effectively and consistently with presentable information relevant to the questions.

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.

           The shortlisted nominations will then undergo the second round of evaluation by three main independent judges. 

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?

How to apply

UK institutions are invited to submit an application for the UK-Malaysia Education Institutional Partnership Award 2023 at https://www.cognitoforms.com/BritishMalaysianChamberOfCommerceBerhad1/UKMalaysiaEducationInstitutionalPartnershipAward2023.

The closing date for nominations is 28 April 2023.

To learn more about the Business Excellence Awards 2023, click here.

For any inquiries, please contact Prabha Sundram at Prabha.Sundram@britishcouncil.org