Kota Kinabalu: Ten students and a lecturer fromUniversiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)'s School of Science and Technology(SST) became the first group to undergo industrial training with theuniversity's new Korean partner institution, Gwangju Institute ofScience and Technology.
Launching the 10-week overseas training was UMS Vice-Chancellor, Prof.Datuk Dr Mohd Noh Dalimin, at the university's Chancellery Building,near here, Tuesday. The group departed for Korea the following day.
According to Dean of SST, Dr Amran Ahmed, UMS was proud to have sentits pioneer batch of students and academic staff to the Koreaninstitution.
"The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Feb 2 this year,but in April we already sent our students and a lecturer to start whatis going to be a catalyst to a better educational relationship with theleading science and technology institution," he said.
Amran also hoped that an exchange of students and academic staff wouldbegin in earnest next year involving not only SST but also otherscience schools of UMS.
"For a start, only UMS sent its group to Korea, however, we are lookingforward to receiving Gwangju delegation hopefully sometime early nextyear.
"Also, according to the MoU, Gwangju agreed to accept students from anyscience schools of UMS, such as SST and the School of Engineering andInformation Technology (SIET).
"In fact, Gwangju is very interested to receive our engineeringstudents as 60 per cent of the Korean institution's emphasis is onengineering," he said, adding the programme at Gwangju would be anannual activity to be carried out by UMS.
The students would also be able to concentrate on their training as thefinancial aspect of the overseas trip has already been taken care of.
"Gwangju has agreed to handle the students' lodging and food as well as the lecturer's accommodation expenses," he said.
The 10-week internship is a course requirement for the final year students before they are eligible for graduation.
It will also expose the students to a more practical aspect of researchso that what the students have learned in theoretical classes can beapplied.
"This is a very important part of the learning process," stressed Amran.
Another lecturer from SST will join his colleague at Gwangju in June under a three-month academic staff training programme.
When the group returns in June, the students and lecturer would presenta report to the school to share their experience with their colleaguesand to suggest possible improvements on the programme to ensure thesuccess of future training.
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