马来西亚马来亚大学
2025-03-29
更新时间:2025-03-29 21:58:29作者:欧曼老师
马来亚大学是吉隆坡的一所公立研究型大学,是马来西亚最古老的大学,成立于1905年
它最初被称为爱德华七世国王医学院,是为了解决19世纪90年代末新加坡和槟城医疗助理短缺的问题而创建的。它随后被安置在新加坡综合医院附近的旧收容所
1949年,该大学与莱佛士学院合并,成为马来亚大学,这是一所由英国人于1929年为马来人建立的学习艺术和社会科学的学校,源于当时的国名
1960年,政府决定,由于其快速发展,该大学将分为两所国立大学,一所在新加坡(现在是一所独立的自治大学,称为新加坡国立大学),另一所在吉隆坡(1962年作为自己的机构成立,仍保留其名称为马来亚大学)
该大学的纹章展示了棕榈叶,棕榈叶曾被用作马来古籍的印刷材料。上面写着该大学的校训“Ilmu Puncha Kemajuan”,这是阿拉伯语、梵语和马来语的混合词,意思是“知识是进步的源泉”。中间是三只马来亚虎,象征着马来西亚的三个主要种族:马来人、华人和印度人
如今,该校区距离吉隆坡市中心12公里,占地920英亩,包括一个奥运会规模的游泳池和一个带皮划艇的湖泊。自2009年以来,它获得了自我认证,拥有60多个研究中心和六个研究集群
著名校友包括马来西亚的两位总理,以及来自马来西亚和国外的许多政治家和其他知名人士
The University of Malaya, a public research university in Kuala Lumpur, is Malaysia’s oldest university, founded in 1905.
Originally known as the King Edward VII College of Medicine, it was created to solve a shortage of medical assistants in Singapore and Penang during the late 1890s. It was then housed in the old asylum near the Singapore General Hospital.
In 1949 the university merged with Raffles College, a school established in 1929 by the English for Malayans to study arts and social sciences, to become the University of Malaya, derived from the country’s name at the time.
In 1960, the government decided that, due to its rapid growth, the university would be divided into two national universities, one in Singapore (now an autonomous separate university known as the National University of Singapore), and the other in Kuala Lumpur (established as its own institution in 1962, still retaining its name as the University of Malaya).
The university’s Coat of Arms shows the leaves of the Palmyra palm, which were used as printing material for ancient Malay books. Across these is written the university’s motto, ‘Ilmu Puncha Kemajuan’, a mixture of words from Arabi, Sanskrit and Malay, which means "knowledge is the source of progress". In the centre are three Malayan tigers, symbolising the three main races in Malaysia: Malays, Chinese and Indians.
Today the campus is located 12km from the centre of Kuala Lumpur, on 920 acres, which include an Olympic sized swimming pool and a lake with kayaking. It has been granted self-accreditation since 2009, and has more than 60 research centres with six research clusters.
Notable alumni include two prime ministers of Malaysia, as well as many politicians and other prominent figures from Malaysia and abroad.