KUALA LUMPUR, 9 November 2010 – MIMOS, the premier applied research centre in frontier technologies, celebrated the graduation of the first batch of its Centre of Domain Expertise Acceleration (CODE8) programme at a glittering ceremony today.
CODE8 is a special apprenticeship initiative by MIMOS in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) aimed at enhancing the employability for the information and communications technologies (ICT) sector. It was designed to harness fresh new talents which are industry-ready in the ICT field in line with the national aspiration of increasing the number of researchers, scientists and engineers (RSEs) from 18 per 10,000 workforce in 2008 to 50 RSEs for every 10,000 workforce by 2010.
