Researchers from four institutions namely Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) and Management and Science University (MSU) were today invited to a briefing session by the Ministry of Education (MoE). Premised on their recent submissions of concept papers to the Long Term Research Grant Scheme (LRGS) related to niche research agenda "Rural Transformation", the researchers were given a briefing by one of the LRGS panels from the Social Science cluster - Prof Dr Normah Omar. The researchers were basically tasked to realign their research programmes so that the research outcome could be used to facilitate government's initiatives such as the Government Transformation Programme (GTP), Economic Transformation Programme and the New Economic Model (NEM). The group will need to present their concept papers on Rural Transformation on 15th April 2014.
