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 which offer a heightened standard of recognition, excellence and progress to acknowledge the bilateral achievements and success.

The Business Excellence Awards 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. 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. This year, the Business Excellence Awards Gala event will be held in St. Regis Hotel, Kuala Lumpur on 8 June 2023.

UK-Malaysia Education Institutional Partnership Award 2023

UK institutions are invited to submit applications for the UK-Malaysia Education Institutional Partnership Award 2023, an award category by the British Council in partnership with the British Malaysia Chamber of Commerce for their prestigious Business Excellence Awards 2023. The outstanding award aims to honour a UK higher or further education institution that has partnered with Malaysian organisation(s) which have contributed exceptional results and shown significant value creation to the Malaysian education sector along with capitalising the best of UK and Malaysia expertise for the last 5 years. 

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.

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 eligibility criteria, judging criteria and terms and conditions can be found on the application form.

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