On a mission for UiTM

The Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Chancellery Building at the UiTM main campus in Shah Alam.

I REFER to the report “Leading the Mara march forward” (StarEdu, March 31).

I read with great interest the interview with Universiti Teknologi Mara’s (UiTM) vice-chancellor Prof Dr Mohd Azraai Kassim.Most Malaysians are familiar with UiTM, which was established as Mara College in 1965 as one of the affirmative programmes for the bumiputra community. It has grown into the largest public university in Malaysia with 18,000 staff members, 35 campuses, 500 academic programmes,170,000 students and almost 800,000 alumni members.