Organisation
The management of the university is carried out through the executive power of the Board of Directors, made up of members chosen from the university, representatives from government departments and those appointed by the Ministry of Higher Education. There are three Deputy Vice-Chancellors led by the Vice Chancellor. The current Vice-Chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Omar Osman was appointed in October 2011. Prof Osman is the brother of the local chairman of UMNO Datuk Zainal Abidin Osman, whose MYR 30 million (USD 9.82 mil) defamation case against the Chief Minister of Penang was dismissed by the High Court in June 2012.
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“It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)