The Accounting Research Institute thanks Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) for inviting ARI and Professor Dr Normah, its director to share ARI's own journey and experiences as a Higher Institutions' Centre of Excellence (HICoE). In a two-day program to "enhance and encourage" its current centres of excellence to achieve the HICoE stature within the next three years, the university has invited several speakers from among research institutions to share their experiences. Two current HICoEs - UMPEDAC and ARI have been particularly "tasked" to share their HICoE journey. Throughout ARI's two-hour session, it has indeed been very interative moments with participants asking both general and specific questions about HICoE. UTM's Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Prof. Ir Dr Mohd Azraai Kassim was also present to lend his support. Some forty participants, comprising directors and heads of centres of excellence attended the session. According to its strategic educational plan, the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) aspires to recognise twenty HICoEs with international stature by the year 2020. For ARI, the HICoE journey has indeed been the most rewarding and fulfilling to all its members at the institute. The biggest paradign shift that ARI members have to undergo was to change their research focus from being a "generalist" to a "specialist" in the niche area of
Islamic Financial Criminology.
The Accounting Research Institute thanks Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) for inviting ARI and Professor Dr Normah, its director to share ARI's own journey and experiences as a Higher Institutions' Centre of Excellence (HICoE). In a two-day program to "enhance and encourage" its current centres of excellence to achieve the HICoE stature within the next three years, the university has invited several speakers from among research institutions to share their experiences. Two current HICoEs - UMPEDAC and ARI have been particularly "tasked" to share their HICoE journey. Throughout ARI's two-hour session, it has indeed been very interative moments with participants asking both general and specific questions about HICoE. UTM's Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Prof. Ir Dr Mohd Azraai Kassim was also present to lend his support. Some forty participants, comprising directors and heads of centres of excellence attended the session. According to its strategic educational plan, the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) aspires to recognise twenty HICoEs with international stature by the year 2020. For ARI, the HICoE journey has indeed been the most rewarding and fulfilling to all its members at the institute. The biggest paradign shift that ARI members have to undergo was to change their research focus from being a "generalist" to a "specialist" in the niche area of Islamic Financial Criminology.
