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SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES FOR STUDENTS

The involvement of the private sector • Provide excellent resources and facilities
Scholarships and Bursaries for Students
is critical in helping UM to achieve its for learning and research, including re-
rangking target by 2015. It is worthwhile engineering building space for those with
to note that some of the most successful physical disability;
universities in the USA, UK, Australia,
Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, • Upgrade experiential learning through
etc have attributed their World Ranking state-of-the-art learning method such as:
success mainly to private sector funding.
Funds channelled into enhancing research • Provide high-end industrial training
and academic programmes in these via apprenticeship program in
universities have resulted in higher level highly reputed companies, locally
performance and a reputation as the and globally. With adequate funds
“university of frst choice”. students need not be dependent on
sponsor companies for funding and
The recent success of UM in 2011 [ranked therefore not restricted to a training
167 in the Top 200 Universities in the QS program of a mere 1 or 2 weeks.
World Ranking as well as being ranked for The duration of apprenticeship
the frst time, for a Malaysian University, in is critical in the acquisition of
the 401-500 bracket in the Shanghai Jiao knowledge and skills in any
Tung University Ranking (SJTU)] have discipline.
provided UM with greater incentive and
motivation to aspire to achieve world status • Provide access to various simulation
by 2015. The question that needs to be Industrial Attachment Programs
asked however, is “why not top 100”? in various countries e.g. learning
about Japanese economics via
Ranking provides the University with attachment to Japanese companies
signifcant benefts for the students in Japan so that students gain
and staff. Apart from pride in being an insight into how Japanese
acknowledged as world-class with its companies operate within the actual
attendant image and identity, students context of their social and cultural
enjoy greater employability and more environment. Adequate funds will
importantly they have the liberty of choosing also help to alleviate the students’
careers of their choice. With suffcient problem of having to raise funds on
funding, no student will be marginalized their own.
on the basis of lost opportunities due to
poverty and physical disability. It is in the context of the above that we seek
your help in helping UM students make a
UM hopes to attract sponsors and donors difference in higher education in Malaysia
and with suffcient funding, will be able to and beyond, via suffcient funding.
provide the following for students:
• Scholarships and bursaries for those
who need fnancial support;

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