Excited to go to school again
KUCHING: Form Five students around the city are excited yet cautious about the reopening of secondary schools starting Wednesday (June 24). Last June 10, Education Minister Mohd Radzi Md Jidin announced that secondary schools in the country would reopen in phases, first for those taking their leaving examinations, such as Form Five students sitting for […]
Free internet data a boon for students, traders
SEREMBAN: Siti Sarah Zulkarnain, 26, has made full use of the 1GB free daily internet data provided during the movement control order (MCO) to study and attend virtual classes. The student of the Urban Planning at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) in Shah Alam said she was grateful for the initiative — which was recently extended […]
We are safe, says student in US
KABONG: “The government is always concerned about our wellbeing. Families at home do not have to worry because the situation is still under control and we are all safe,” said 22-year-old Mohamad Amir Aimirul Taim from Kabong who is currently studying at University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis. The current developments in the United States […]
Advice students on SOPs when schools reopen
KUCHING: Schools in the state are advised to give briefings to their students on the standard operating procedure (SOP) that they need to adhere to when they reopen. Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah said this was to ensure that students could adapt to the new practices in […]
Students told to come for screening
MUKAH: Students of public and private institutions of higher learning in this division (Mukah, Dalat, Matu, Daro and Tanjung Manis districts) who have returned home but not yet undergone Covid-19 screening are requested to contact the operations room at the Resident Office here. Mukah Division Disaster Management Committee in a statement today announced that the […]
Special task force focuses on contact tracing among students
MIRI: A special task force, which started operations on Tuesday, aims to focus on contact tracing among students from domestic institutions of higher learning who returned to Miri in recent weeks. In saying this today, minister in charge of the Disaster Management Committee here, Datuk Lee Kim Shin, said that all the returning students had been […]
Covid-19 screening for all these students
KUCHING: All public higher learning institution (IPTA) and private higher learning institution (IPTS) students who returned to their hometowns in the state recently must undergo Covid-19 screening in their respective divisions. Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) in a statement said the respective divisional SDMC would contact the students who had not been screened yet. “SDMC […]
Another positive Covid-19 case in Sibu
KUCHING: Sarawak recorded another positive Covid-19 case yesterday from Sibu – a student who had returned from Temboro Karas Magetan, East Java, Indonesia. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas said that in this student’s case, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests had been taken while he was undergoing 14-day quarantine at Pullman Hotel Kuching, […]
72 students return home from Mukah
MUKAH: Seventy-two students from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Mukah and Mukah Polytechnic returned to their respective hometowns yesterday. Of the 33 UiTM students, two left for Saratok, three for Betong, seven for Sri Aman, 18 for Miri and one each for Sarikei, Sibu, and Julau. For the polytechnic, 16 students left for Kuching, two each […]
UPM starts sending students home
BINTULU: Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Bintulu campus began sending its students back to their respective hometowns last Saturday. Five buses took 88 students to five destinations, namely Miri, Sibu, Betong Mukah, Sarikei and Sri Aman. The first group of 18 students to Saratok and Betong left here as early as 11.40am on Saturday while the […]
