Govt urged to allow international graduates to work
KUALA LUMPUR: Small and Medium Enterprises Association of Malaysia (SAMENTA) has urged the government to allow international graduates to work to ease the chronic talent crunch within the industry, especially in the engineering and technical fields. In a statement yesterday, SAMENTA national president Datuk William Ng said the number of international students in engineering and […]
Uggah calls for two graduates in every Dayak household
KUCHING: Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas has advocated for every Dayak family to strive for at least two graduates. He emphasised the importance of education in empowering Dayak youth to compete in various fields. “Previously, it was one graduate in every family, but this is outdated. We should have two graduates in every […]
Assign more locally graduated contract doctors to serve in Sarawak
MIRI: The reassignment of some 40 contract doctors here may result in a slowdown of medical services in Miri General Hospital and increase the workload for other doctors, said Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Youth Central Publicity and Information secretary Kelvin Hii. To this end, Hii, who is also the SUPP Pujut Youth chief, urged the […]
Jobs await 30 forestry course graduates
KUCHING: Thirty fresh graduates from the Forestry Training Institute (FORTRAIN) have jobs ready for them at the Forest Department Sarawak (FDS). They will be serving the department soon. FDS director Datuk Hamden Mohamad said Sarawak being the largest forested region in Malaysia with 7.72 hectares of forests, it needed trained employees to look after and […]
Unimas ranks 401 in the world impact university
SAMARAHAN: UNIMAS has been ranked 1,201 amongst the 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions; and ranked 401 in the world impact university ranking. UNIMAS Pro-Chancellor Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas congratulated the university, which had a;sp received recognition from The Awards Asia 2022. At the same time, UNIMAS was top eight and shortlisted in […]
Nine make successful BASE jumps off 125m-tall Wisma Sanyan in Sibu
SIBU: The Sibu International BASE Jump made a comeback with nine participants making their first jumps at Dataran Tun Tuanku Bujang here on Yesterday (Sept 15). BASE—a recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects using a parachute—is an acronym for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump – buildings, antenna, spans and […]
Very happy and proud of themselves
KUCHING: Eight hundred graduates yesterday received their scrolls on the first day of the 30th Kuching Sarawak Polytechnic (PKS) convocation ceremony. The two-day event was officiated by Education Advisor at the Sarawak Premier’s Office, Datuk Amar Michael Manyin Jawong on behalf of Education, Innovation and Talent Development Minister, Datuk Roland Sagah Wee Inn. The event […]
SSM seeks to nurture graduate entrepreneurs
KUCHING: The Youth Entrepreneurs Programme (PUM) 2022 organised by the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM) aims to develop and explain the importance of business registration to students who plan to venture into entrepreneurship. Kuching Polytechnic director Hikmatullah Hajid Ahmad Khan said through such a programme, students will also be able to learn about preparations before […]
Siblings give family double happiness
KUCHING: Happiness shared is happiness doubled. Just ask newly-minted graduate siblings Juana and Lauren Joulan Poyong from Sabah. They were a picture of sheer happiness after receiving their scrolls during the Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus graduation ceremony here Today (Aug 30). Juana, 24, from Kota Kinabalu graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Accounting […]
Moment of silence for Swinburne Sarawak graduate
KUCHING: A moment of silence was observed to remember a Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus student during today’s (Aug 30) graduation ceremony. The late Adrian Prakasa was a student from Indonesia who pursued his tertiary studies at Swinburne Sarawak. His brother Agung Saputra, 34, said he was very proud of his sibling’s achievement. “I’m […]
