Adobe Partners with UiTM for Campus-Wide Creative Cloud Deployment

In its bid to ready students for the knowledge economy, a concept that has come up almost in recent years, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) has signed on a major collaboration bargain with Adobe. This partnership, over the next three years, will see the public university deploying the Adobe Artistic Deject into all its campuses.

This includes the chief campus in Shah Alam every bit well every bit all 12 land and 21 satellite institutions around Malaysia.

For both parties, this move is seen every bit a forward-thinking motility equally it address the surging demand for creatives that are expected to populate highly related industries.

"With creativity and design aptitude becoming almost a cadre requirement in today'south knowledge economy, UiTM recognises the importance of imparting design skills and design-led thinking to students. This is one of the principal reasons we put together this partnership with Adobe as nosotros want to prepare our graduates for the working world and help them observe employment or wherever their career takes them," said Vice Chancellor of UiTM, Professor Emeritus Dr Hassan Said.

In moving to deploy Adobe Creative Cloud for all campuses, all UiTM students and kinesthesia staff volition stand up to benefit on multiple levels. Not only will they have access to all artistic tools that Adobe and its partners developed, they will likewise gain relevant skill development, valuable on-set feel, and better understanding of these tool-sets.

All faculty staff volition also obtain off-campus admission upon deployment.

This partnership between Adobe and UiTM also saw the appointment of Dr Sharkawi Che Din and Acquaintance Professor Dr Azhar Abd Jamil to the Adobe Teaching Leaders (AEL) Plan. Dr Zainuddin Ibrahim, meanwhile, has been placed in the Adobe Campus Leader (ACL) Programme.

"Electric current technology innovations are evolving faster than any time in history. Thus, information technology is critical that preparing students with the confidence and skills to bring together the noesis economy and be successful remains as a cardinal focus for Adobe. This partnership is a stiff validation of Adobe's market leadership in the artistic infinite," added Wayne Weisse, Educational activity Director, Adobe Asia Pacific.