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Challenging new frontiers
Top once again!
What an experience!
Oxford@Sunway
A love story made in Sunway
MAGAZINE / VOL 01 ISSUE 01 / June
For internal circulation
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Advisor :
Elizabeth Lee
Editorial Team :
Jerrine Koay(Editor)
Jacqueline Muriel Lim(Sub-Editor & Writer)
Laveenia Theertha Pathy(Writer)
Publisher :
Sunway Education Group
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Yoong & Ng Consulting
Printer:
Ocean Transer (M) Sdn Bhd
The Sunway Education Group institutions and services:
Sunway College Kuching
Tel: (6082) 232 780/236 666
www.sunwaycollegekuching.edu.my
Sunway-TES
Tel: 603-7491 [email protected]
www.sunway.edu.my
Sunway College
Tel: 603-7491 8622/7776
sunway.edu.my/college
Sunway College Johor Bahru
Tel: 607-359 6880
www.sunway.edu.my/jb
Sunway College Ipoh
Tel: 605-545 4398
www.sunway.edu.my/ipoh
Sunway University
Tel: 603-7491 8622
sunway.edu.my/university
Monash University SunwayCampus Malaysia
Tel: 603-5514 6000
www.monash.edu.my
Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine
Monash University Sunway
Campus Malaysia
Tel: 603-5514 6000
www.monash.edu.my
Sunway International Business &
Management
Tel: 603-5880 7356/60
www.sunway.edu.my/sibm
Features
8 What an experience!
Happenings
13 Sunway students light the torch o patriotism
14 Oxord @ Sunway
Sports
15 First ever Taekwondo Annual Dinner
Alumni
16 A love story made in Sunway
Cover Story
Challenging new rontiers 3
Social Responsibility
A time together 15
Hallmarks
Sunway College FIA graduates are proud achievers 6A night to celebrate 7
Victoria University graduation in Malaysia gleams with achievers 10
Top once again! 11
Sunway College A-levels garnered 16 CIE Awards 12
CONTENTS
is published our times a year. The name was selected by popular
choice by the students themselves to represent a progressive Sunway
College, an institution owned and governed by the Jerey Cheah
Foundation. Since its inception in 1986, Sunway College has always
been a leading private institution o higher learning, and it is orever
escalating into the next level o excellence. or UPP stands or
“Uniquely Purposeul Programmes”.
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Challenging
new rontiersHaving incubated Sunway
University College to Sunway
University in its 25 years o
existence, Sunway College
continues to make great
strides ahead with its own
great plans to expand and
challenge new rontiers.
Along with it, according to
Elizabeth Lee, Executive
Director, Sunway Education
Group, is the possibility o
setting up its own campuses
in other parts o the world.brings you the story …
Cover Story
Sunway College may not have continued to exist when it was irst accorded University
College status by the Ministry o Higher Education in 2004, and later, a ull university early
this year.
Between 2004 and 2010, when it was still a university college, it had started oering its own
undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, while running various pre-university and
proessional programmes. It maintained its twinning arrangement with Victoria University
and continued to run the American Degree Transer Programme, to enable students tospend the preparatory years in their undergraduate programmes locally and inishing their
degree overseas.
But ater Sunway became a ull university in January this year, the need to continue operating
Sunway College became a necessity.
“Hence,” as Sunway Education Group’s Executive Director, Elizabeth Lee put it, “Sunway
College’s existence is to meet a dierent set o expectations. While the University is able
to stand on its own to oer its own Foundation, Diploma and Degree (Postgraduate and
Undergraduate) UK university-validated programmes, and indulge itsel in research and
curriculum development, Sunway College provides a wide range o proessional quali ications
and internationally recognised pre-university programmes in collaboration with reputable
international bodies such as ICAEW and ACCA. Sunway College will continue to oer Australian twinning programmes to
students who preer to complete their degrees in Malaysia.”
While the degree oered by Sunway University will be validated by a Top 10 UK university, Lancaster University, Sunway
College graduates will graduate with a testamur rom the oreign institution. “Both are pathways to a good career in the
corporate world,” said Lee. “In the process, students have more options to choose rom. What’s more important is that they
must know their career objectives.”
“Sunway College’s
existence is to meet
a different set of
expectations.”
- Elizabeth Lee
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Our Story
Sunway College started in 1986, when its ounder, Tan Sri
Dato’ Seri Dr Jerey Cheah, AO decided that education will
always be very close to the heart o Malaysian parents. The
College started operating rom a building in Petaling Jaya
State New Town.
Within a short span o time, Sunway College became a popular
household name or quality private higher education. It had a
number o twinning programmes with reputable universities
rom Australia and the United Kingdom. It was also the
incubator to a Malaysian campus o Monash University rom
1998 beore Monash’s new campus was set up within the
same township.
In 2009, Sunway University College became one o very
ew private higher education institutions in Malaysia to be
rated ‘Excellent’ in the rst ever quality rating
system in Malaysia – the ‘SETARA’ by the Malaysian
Qualications Agency (MQA). With its excellent
rating, quality delivery o teaching and learning,
and signicant contribution towards developing the
nation’s workorce, Sunway University College was
given the ull-fedged university status and became
Sunway University in January 2011. It is today a
well-respected name in private higher education in
Southeast Asia, drawing students rom Indonesia,
China, Vietnam, as well as the Middle-Eastern
continent.
Quarter o a century old now, Sunway College has
indeed made great strides in the higher education scene in
Malaysia.
What particularly makes Sunway College attractive to
employers, said Lee, is that its students have received
numerous accolades that continue to make the College
management and sta proud o their achievements.
One o its students, Gan Fang Wen emerged Top in the
World or Mathematics AS-Level. Fang has been accepted
to pursue her studies in Medicine at Cambridge University.
Two o its students, Kwong Sze Hui and Vivian Teh Qian Yuen
topped the rest o the world in the December 2010 ICAEW
ACA qualication examination and jointly took First Place.
Tay Jun Yin, who is currently employed with Deloitte scored
nine High Distinctions and eight Distinctions in the twinning
programme with Victoria University. Besides being a high
achiever, Tay is also actively involved in extra-curricular
activities. This bagged him the coveted CIMB Bank ECA
Achiever’s Award 2010. The ormer President o the SunwayCPA Australia Student Charter in 2010 also represented
Sunway in Taekwondo and won the MAPCU Taekwondo
championship in 2008. The list goes on.
On the ront cover o this edition o , A-Levels student, Lee
Kin Wai is currently studying at Cambridge University. Lee
scored the Highest Mark (joint) in the World or Mathematics
at AS Level and the Second Highest Mark (joint) in the World
or General Paper in the Cambridge Fellowship Awards
2010.
Pre-university Studies
At the pre-university studies level, Sunway College oers
grade 12 or matriculation programme options rom the UK,
Australia and Canada. These pre-university programmes
include:
• AUSMAT (Australian Matriculation)
• Cambridge GCE Advance Levels (A-Level)
• CIMP (Canadian International Matriculation Programme)
• MUFY (Monash University Foundation Year)
• Sunway FIA (Foundation in Arts)
According to Cheng Mien Wee, Director, Pre-University
Studies, the range o pre-university programmes has been
careully designed to suit the dierent learning preerences
o students, and to prepare them to enter their university o
choice.
“Depending on their career objectives and perormance at
school, our counsellors will be able to guide the students to
choose the right pathway,” she said. “This is why we always
encourage students to meet the counsellors beore choosing
a suitable programme.”
With some talented students, a proessional qualiication
is more suitable. “We would ask them to consider eitherCertiied Accounting Technician (CAT) or Certiicate in
Finance, Accounting and Business (CFAB) instead o going
through the pre-university programme route,” she added.
“These programmes are conducted by Sunway College
through its subsidiary, Sunway-TES.”
“Depending on their career
objectives and performance
at school, our counsellors
will be able to guide the students to choose the
right pathway.”
- Cheng
Cover Story
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Professional Accounting Programmes:
The award-winning Sunway-TES oers programmes
o study leading to the globally recognised ACCA
(Association o Chartered Certiied Accountant) and CAT
(Certiied Accounting Technician) proessional accounting
qualiications, as well as the Certiicate in Finance,
Accounting and Business (CFAB) and the ACA qualiication
o the ICAEW (Institute o Chartered Accountants in England
and Wales).
Its Executive Director, Teo Ee Sing said since Sunway-TESstarted in 1994, it has produced 96 world prize winners
since 1996. A total o 2309 students have graduated with
dierent proessional qualiications. “Many o them have
climbed up the corporate ladder,” he said. “We are proud o
their achievements. Learning does not end at convocations.
Our alumni know that in order to keep abreast with the latest
development in their proession, they have to continue to
develop new skills.”
Elizabeth Lee, who has been with Sunway College
since 1992, said although Sunway now has its own
university oering “home-grown” programmes validated
by Lancaster, a number o students still preer to pursue
twinning undergraduate and MBA programmes with oreignuniversities. “For that reason, Sunway College will continue
to develop in this direction.
Twinning & MBA programmes
Being one o the pioneers o the twinning and credit transer
programmes, Sunway College has oered many Malaysian
and international students the opportunity o obtaining well
recognised qualiications o oreign universities rom the
UK, Australia and the USA through studying at Sunway in
Malaysia.
Lee stressed: “Our long history o partnership with Victoria
University (VU) in Melbourne, Australia dates back to as ar
as 1994, where a strong academic partnership continuestoday, enabling us to oer the VU Bachelor o Business
and MBA twinning programmes. These have become
popular options that are well recognised
by employers and industry.”
Sunway College also oers a range o
well-established English language
proiciency programmes
that have been speciically
designed to equip students
with English language
and communication skills
necessary or academic
success as well asemployment and career
development.
Throughout its history,
the College has provided
holistic education and
nurtured students to
be critical thinkers and
socially responsible
citizens.
Expansion
Although its main campus is located at Bandar Sunway,
Sunway College has a number o branches in other cities
such as Johor Bahru, Ipoh and Kuching. There is no reason
why the College cannot now replicate its success in other
third world countries.
“Although we have not ventured
aggressively overseas, whenever
the opportunities are there,
we will deinitely explore andreplicate our success in these
countries,” she said. “Success
is a journey, not a destination.”
said Elizabeth Lee.
Revolving funds
Sunway College and Sunway
University are part o the Sunway
Education Group and are wholly
owned and governed by the
Jerey Cheah Foundation. The
Foundation, which was launched
in March 2010 operates upon
the philosophy o its Founder, Tan Sri Jerey Cheah, who is
passionate about giving back
to the community via education.
Sunway College channels
its surpluses in the orm o
scholarships and inancial
support to deserving students.
A total o RM 66 million in
scholarships has been disbursed
to-date by the Foundation and its predecessor, Sunway
Education Trust Fund which was set up in 1997.
The Jerey Cheah Foundation champions the spirit o giving
back to society and believes that education transormslives. Every student and sta at Sunway College is able to
contribute in the same way by virtue o the simple act that
we are a part o the Sunway community.
“Learning does
not end at the
convocation. Our
alumni know
that in order to keep abreast with the latest
development in
their profession, they
have to continue to
develop new skills.”
- Teo Ee Sing
Cover Story
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The golden hearts
Sun wa y College
FI A gradua tes are proud achie vers
Gerald Tan Lye Sern was one o the top students who scored an average mark o 90% and received a ull
scholarship to continue his undergraduate studies at Sunway University under the Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr Jerey
Cheah Continuing Scholarship.
Tan Wei Chun, Goh Zi Dong and Khoo Jun Hao were the other high scorers in the same category as Gerald.
More than 70% o the students received the Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr Jerey Cheah Continuing Scholarship to
pursue their undergraduate studies. 25 students who had average marks o 80% to 84.9% received the 75%
tuition ee waiver scholarship award.
FIA also recognised and appreciated students who were active in co-curricular activities. Seven students were
awarded Certiicate o Appreciation or their contributions to co-curricular activities.
stephendaddy1: The home-grown FIA programme is a preparatory course or Sunway’s undergraduate
programmes developed in collaboration with Sunway’s partner, Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.
Over 60% o the 119 FIA graduates will continue to pursue the BSc (Hons) Psychology and various business
degree programmes at Sunway University.
Hallmarks
Giving o one’s time and money to these young people
can bring satisaction when you see their progress…
The recent Foundation in Arts
(FIA) pre-university programme
produced 119 graduates.
The highes t achie vers wi th ( from le f t to righ t ) Cheng Mien Wee, Pro fessor Rober t Bignall, Ms Elizabe th Lee, Mrs Ruma Lopes, and Ms Vani tha.
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Sun wa y’s Pre-U
ni versi t y s tuden ts commemora ted t heir s
uccess and accomplis hmen ts in
t he Aus tralian Ma tricula tion ( A
USM A T ), and Monas h Uni ver
si t y Founda tion Year ( MUF Y )
on Marc h 16.
Yeo h Zi Yi, w ho was t he h
ig hes t ac hie ver in AUSM A
T,
was a warded t he Special
Cer ti fica te o f Dis tinc tion f
or
Ma t hema tics. He ranked in t he top 0
.5% o f candida tes in
t he Wes tern Aus tralian Cer ti fica te
o f Educa tion ( W ACE )
world wide.
“ AUSM A T in Sun wa y is reall
y li vel y compared to t he
Mala ysian Secondar y Educa t
ion s ys tem,” he said.
“ We are taug h t to speak up
and t his bene fi ts t he
s tuden ts in man y areas.”
Mean w hile, Ng Jia Wei was t he hig
hes t ac hie ver
in MUF Y, w hile Nic holas Ling Jern W he y emerge
d
top in t he FI A programme.
Vid h ya Sa t h yamoor t h y, Valedic
torian a t t he MUF Y
Gradua tion Nig h t, said t ha
t for t he s tuden ts,
learning is no t con fined to
classrooms. “MUF Y
programme ga ve us a c hance to un w
ind and
take a break from our dail y rou
tines t hroug h
e x tra-curricular e ven ts,” s
he said. “ We ha ve
learn t a number o f skills as par t o f our pe
rsonal
de velopmen t.”
Sun wa y Educa tion Group’s
E xecu ti ve Direc tor, Eli zabe t h
Lee, said t ha t s he was im
pressed wi t h t he success
o f
Sun wa y Pre-U s tuden ts. “ T h
e mos t gra ti f ying momen t o f
our teac hing pro fession is
w hen we wi tness a group o
f
young people comple ting t heir a
cademic year a f ter all t he
hard work and perse veran
ce t he y pu t in,” s he said.
An i g h t
to celebra te
Hallmarks
M U F Y’s Ng J ia We i rece i v ing
h is a ward from E l i za be t h Lee,
E xecu t i ve D irec tor o f S
un wa y
Educa t ion Group
Y eoh Z i Y i ( holding his aw ar d at the center ), Ruma Lopes, Dir ector of Pr ogr amme,
AUSM AT ( r ight ) and V anitha, Deputy Dir ector of AUSM AT ( lef t ).
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Homestay has always enchanted
tourists for many years. From April 15
to 17, Sunway College students had
the opportunity to participate in a homestay
programme at Air Manis Homestay in Sabak
Bernam.
The journey o this not-to-be-missed experience started
with a plan to stage a traditional wedding ceremony.
But, events took its turn and Sajid got himsel a ‘new
bride’ ater meeting a young lady rom University o
Malaya.
Sajid, our international student rom Aghanistan was
supposed to have taken a ellow student rom Thailand
as his wie. The entire mock-up o a Malay wedding
was the climax o the homestay, where 30 o our
international students, accompanied by three sta rom
the International Student Oice, lived with the local host
amilies to experience and appreciate the traditional
aspects o village liestyle.
The host amilies were generally riendly and had
provided good hospitality, with both host and
participants showing great mutual respect and positive
attitudes towards each other. The activities organised
included batik crating, canoeing, gamelan perormance,
traditional dance perormance, playing traditional
games (congkak , hitting the bee hives, sandal ighting,
kite lying and learning to weave ketupat.)
Participants ound the homestay programme at Air
Manis was both beneicial and meaningul. “We would
like to recommend the programme to other internationalstudents,” remarked Sajid.
WHATan experience!
Features
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A ir Man is, here we come!
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Hallmarks
At Victoria University’sgraduation ceremony
in Bandar Sunway,
Amy Kok Sok Jen emerged
the top student, with an
overall o 83% marks and
23 High Distinctions and
Distinctions in total, out o
24 subjects.
Let to right, Jimmy Goh, Liew Jun Keen, Proessor Peter Dawkins, Chancellor George Pappas, Puan Sri Susan
Cheah, Amy Kok and Ng Chin Peng
Besides being a recipient o The Star Education Fund scholarship, Kok, who is currently
employed by KPMG in Singapore, was also a recipient o the Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr Jerey
Cheah Scholastic Award in 2010.
Another achiever, Tay Jun Yin, President o the Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter in
2010 was the CIMB Bank ECA Achiever’s Award 2010 recipient or his active involvement
in Extra-Curricular Activities. He also represented Sunway in Taekwondo and won the
MAPCU Taekwondo championship in 2008. Tay scored nine High Distinctions and eight
Distinctions. He is currently employed with
Deloitte.
There were many exemplary students at the Graduation
Ceremony. Amongst them, Joyce Wong Su Ting who was thePresident o the Sunway Student Council 2010 was also a
CIMB Bank ECA Achiever Award recipient.
Ng Mun Foong who was the President o VU Business Club
in 2009 is currently employed with Bloomberg.
Ng Chin Peng, another Star Education Fund scholar, is employed
by Maybank Investment Bank. Jimmy Goh Tzun-Foo, a Sin Chew Daily
Education Fund recipient is with OSK Investment Bank and Liew Jun Keen,
an NST MAPCU scholar is with Sunway City.
These scholarships or awards were jointly unded by the Jerey Cheah
Foundation and Victoria University.
The Graduation Ceremony also saw Betty Lai, Director o Human
Resources cum Facilities o Sunway Education Group, among the proud
graduates receiving her Victoria University MBA scroll oered at Sunway
rom Chancellor, George Pappas.
Congratulations!
grad uation
VICTORIAUNIVERSITY
in Malaysia gleams with achievers
A l l r o u n d
s t u d e n t a n d
T a e k w o n d
o c h a m p
i o n,
T a y J u n Y
i n
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Hallmarks
once again
When two Sunway-
TES students,
Kwong SzeHui and Vivian Teh Qian
Yuen topped the world
in the December 2010
ICAEW ACA qualication
examination and jointly
took on First Place, they
were simply thrilled.
“I did not expect to be the top
scorer in the Financial Accounting
paper since ICAEW examination
is tough and all the candidatesare very good,” said Teh.
“However, like most students, I
did my best.”
Like Teh, Kwong attributed her success to the high level o commitment shown by
Ruzlena Ahmad, a Financial Accounting lecturer, who has been using mind mapping
to help her students understand a whole chapter. “She has helped us see a clearersyllabus linkage,” said Kwong.
“I chose ICAEW ACA because it is a prestigious accountancy qualiication that does
not only provide a solid oundation in accountancy, business and inance, but also
helps to enhance my analytical skills,” Teh said.
Kwong concurred: “Yes, the ICAEW provides a wide perspective o the business world,
ranging rom accounting to audit, tax, law, business strategy, all o which are useul in
the work environment.”
An Li Fong, 23, another Sunway-TES student, who bagged the First prize in Audit and
Assurance in the June 2010 examination (eatured in blaze March edition), and both
Kwong and Teh attended the annual ACA Prize Giving Ceremony in London in May
this year, courtesy o BDO, ICAEW and Sunway-TES, who jointly sponsored their airtickets and accommodation.
Executive Director o Sunway-TES, Teo Ee Sing said Sunway-TES has always been in
the oreront producing world-class accountants. “We will continue with our tradition as
an institution o educational excellence and strive to produce award winning graduates,
who will help to raise the accounting standards in this country,” he said.F r om l e f t : K w ong Sz e Hui , T e o E e Si ng ( E x e cut i v e D i r e ct or , Sunw ay -T E S ) and T e h Q i an Y ue n.
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Hallmarks
G
an Fang Wen and
Iulia Gherman
were two o Sunway College’s most
outstanding students.
Fang Wen was Top in the World or
Mathematics AS-Level. She also bagged the
second placing in Malaysia or Best acrossFour Cambridge International AS-Levels
and secured third place in Malaysia or
Best across Three Cambridge International
A-Levels.
She has been accepted to pursue her studies
in Medicine at Cambridge University.
Iulia Gherman, who hails rom Romania,
emerged Top in the World or Mathematics
AS-Level and was awarded second placing
in Malaysia or the Best Across Five
Cambridge International AS-Levels as well as
third placing in Malaysia or the Best Across
Four Cambridge International A-Levels. She
will be heading to Imperial College, London
to pursue her undergraduate studies in
Biochemistry.
They were among the ten Sunway A-level
students who were the world’s top when they
won a total o 16 Outstanding Cambridge
Learner Awards rom the Cambridge
International Examinations (CIE) recently.
This is the largest haul o awards in one
ceremony or the programme.
Other Sunway students who emerged Top
in the World or Mathematics AS-Levels
were Ang Hui Inn, Darren Soh Ningyuan,Muhammad Siddiq Foong bin Mohammad
Faiz Foong and Nur Dzairah Binti
Kamaruddin. Nur Dzairah was awarded
second placing in Malaysia or Best across
Three Cambridge International AS-Level.
Jacqueline Liu Xing Yi was top in the world
or Psychology at AS-Level, whereas
Charmaine Leong Sook Yee topped the
world or Mathematics and topped Malaysia
or Biology at A-Level.
Her coursemates, Lee Kin Wai was top in the
world Mathematics while Leong Yean Long
topped the world in Further Mathematics
at the A-Levels. Lee Kin Wai is currently at
Cambridge University.
In addition to the impressive string o CIE
awards garnered, 25% o Sunway’s A-level
students scored straight A’s and 100% o
students successully completed the A-level
programme, relecting the high quality o the
A-Levels programme in Sunway.
Sunway College-Levels garnered
16 CIE Awards
“The A-level
programme is
distinct rom other
p r e - u n i v e r s i t y
programmes as
it involved more
reading, more
studying and a more
attentive attituderom students who
choose to pursue
this pathway. A lot
is covered in one
classroom sitting and
i your attendance is
weak, you will need
to double the eort
in order to catch up.”
– Gan Fang Wen
From let: Dr Wong Yoke Chen, Ang Hui Inn, Iulia Gherman, Gan Fang Wen, Leong Yean Long and Darren Soh Ningyuan
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Atotal o 125 students rom the Australian
Matriculation Programme and Monash University
Foundation Year o Sunway College recently visited
the Tunku Abdul Rahman Memorial in Kuala Lumpur.
The trip, organized by the Language and Compulsory Subjects
Centre (LCSC) o Sunway College, was held to enable students to
learn more about the role played by the late Tunku Abdul Rahman and
his eort o bringing independence to this country. The students were
also required to carry out a research project as part o the Malaysian
studies project on the country’s irst prime minister, in an eort to
instill national patriotism and historical values in the hearts o the
students.
They learnt about the Tunku’s contribution to the nation, his challenges
in orging unity in order to achieve independence, his early lie, vision
and mission, integration o communities in Malaya, and the saddest
moment in history – the May 13, 1969 racial riots.
The trip turned out to be exciting, educational and inormative.
LCSC students with their lecturers in ront o the Tunku Abdul Rahman Memorial
the torch o patriotism
Sunway
Lee Aun Nee, a LCSC lecturer, with her
students at the Memorial.
Mr. Santhana Raja, lecturer o LCSC with
his students at the Memorial.
l i g h t l i g h t students
Monarch Abdul Rahman
Hisamuddin Alam Shah
Putra
Ismail Nasiruddin Shah
Born 8 February 1903
Alor Star, Kedah, British Malaya
Died 6 December 1990 (aged 87)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Political party United Malays National Organisation
-Alliance Party/National Front
Spouse(s) Meriam Chong (1933–1935)
Violet Coulson (1935–1946)
Shariah Rodziah Syed Alwi Barakbah (1939–1990
Occupation Lawyer
Religion Islam
Happenings
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14 MAGAZINE
Alarge audience turned up at
an Inormation Session with
Oxord University which washeld at Sunway College recently.
Dr Anne Mullen, the tutor or
Admissions in Humanities and
Social Science subjects, led the
team o tutors to Sunway College
to educate the students and the
public on the programmes available
at Oxord. Also present were Dr
Martin Speight, tutor in Biology and
Dr John Murphy, tutor in Material
Science.
Dr Speight managed to draw the
attention o many pre-university students
who listened intensely to his inormationsession on biological sciences, as well
as other lie sciences such as medicine,
biomedical sciences, biochemistry,
experimental psychology, human
sciences, and geography.
He also demonstrated the dierent
interviewing techniques used by Oxord
to test the responses o potential
students.
Dr Murphy, a tutor in Material Science
as well as Physical Science, brieed the
students on the two disciplines o studyand highlighted the latest developments
in research in these two areas.
Sunway College students and their
parents, particularly rom the A-Levels
and Australian Matriculation programme,
as well as the general public ound this
inormation session valuable.
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Students and par ents listening intently to Dr SpeightDr Anne Mullen inter acting w ith Sunw ay students and the public.
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Social Responsibility
Sports
A time together
Band-Aid, a group consisting o A-Level students
at Sunway College, recently visited GOLD at 3C
Complex in Bandar Sunway.
During the visit, they managed to socialise and had un
with the students. They also organised activities or the
students that allowed them to experience a sense o
individual achievement and helped to urther build their
sel-esteem.
Although the project was
done as part o a Moral
Studies assignment, it
turned out the GOLD
project had a huge
impact on the participants
themselves: the sheer
determination shown
by members o GOLD
in trying out new skills
despite their autism was
simply inspiring!
This project has provided the Band-Aid members with an opportunity to get involved in the
community through meaningu l work. It has also allowed the members to develop skills which
will be invaluable in their uture endeavours, such as those o organisation, communication,
planning, and leadership.
(Report was provided by project leader, Sam Poon Shi Sum)
First ever
Taekwondo
Annual Dinner A
total o 110 Tae Kwon Do Club members
rom Sunway College and Sunway
University, Monash University, APIIT/ UCTI, Taylors University and SEGi College
attended Tae Kwon Do Night organized by
Sunway Tae Kwon Do Club.
The event, themed, ‘The Golden Globe’ saw
many perormances by talented students,
which included Malaysia’s Top Female
Beatboxer, Kim Sng; recent Champion o
Popping Battle D’Vol Soul Session 2011,
Luke a.k.a. Groundwalker; Sunway’s very
own talented dancers, the Soakes Crew
rom Ravelution;
a unique tricking
perormance by Kuntaw Fatakie, and a band thatperormed a duet.
A number o awards were given away, which included
the ‘Event o The Year’ award, which went to Monash
University, and the ‘High Achievers’ award which was
bagged by APIIT/UCTI.
Roger Ng o Sunway and Naza o APIIT/UCTI were
both awarded ‘Best President’ or year 2009 and 2010,
respectively. Among the generous sponsors or the event
were the Kuala Lumpur Tae Kwon Do Club (KLTC), Red
Bull, and LH Engineering and Machinery Sdn. Bhd.
Band-Aid
Our motto:
“To cure the eelings o
others by helping themphysically and mentally”.
Project leader:
Sam Poon Shi Sum
Team members:
Aaron Tan Wai Kit, CherylLee Chiu Ping, ChristabellePeter, Esminda Parmar,Fong Zheng, Lee Kin Mun,Lim Yong Wei, Ng Su Ping,Romeo Lew Ken Jean,Sonia Lee Yi Jie, Tan KerLoon, Tan Juan, ThasbanSingh Bhatt
Lee Hao Seng (let) ACCA student andPresident o Sunway’s Tae Kwon Do Clubreceiving a “People’s Choice Award” romJalaluddin bin HJ Zakaria, President o TaeKwon Do Kuala Lumpur
Special perormances by the students
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W hen Ca l v in Tang and
Grace C heng were f irs
t in troduced b y t he ir m
u tua l
fr iends, l i t t le d id t he y e x
pec t t ha t i t wou ld be t h
e per fec t s tar t to a fa ir y
ta le
s tor y.
Re turn ing to t he ir a lm
a ma ter for t he ir pre- w
edd ing v ideo s hoo t rec
en t l y,
t he young and lo ve l y co
up le sa id t ha t, a f ter t he
ir SPM, t he y enro l led s
tra ig h t
in to Sun wa y Co l lege’s
pre-un i vers i t y programm
es. T he y had jus t turne
d 18,
comp le ted sc hoo l and hard l y kne w
w ha t t he fu ture had in s
tore for t hem.
Toda y, Ca l v in, 2 7, is a C
os t ing Eng ineer w i t h Ke
ppe l S h ip yard, w h i le Grace is
a Ke y Accoun t Manage
r for Ke l logg As ia Mar ke
t ing Inc.
Reca l l ing h is e xper ienc
e s tud y ing a t Sun wa y
Co l lege, Ca l v in sa id t he
Canad ian In terna t iona l
Ma tr icu la t ion Program
me
( CIMP ) was indeed a ve
r y enr ic h ing year for h is
persona l de ve lopmen t.
“I t opened a w ho le ne w
d imens ion to m y l i fe! ”
he
qu ipped.
Ha v ing come from a tra
d i t iona l C h inese fam i l y, C
a l v in kne w on l y one t h in
g in l i fe w h ic h was h is p
r ior i t y – to pa y a t ten t ion
to h is educa t ion and gra
des. A f ter comp le t ing h
is CIMP, h is percep t ion
c hanged for t he be t ter.
Bes ides e xce l l ing in
h is s tud ies, Ca l v in man
aged to de ve lop h is so f
t s k i l ls, w h i le in t he CIMP
, w h ic h he no w f inds ve
r y
use fu l in t he co
urse o f h is wor k.
Grace, a lso 2 7, des
cr i bes
her e xper ience do ing
t he Monas h Un i vers i t y
Founda t ion Year ( M UF Y
)
programme a t Sun wa y
Co l lege as a memora b
le
one. “M UF Y is an e xce l le
n t
pa t h wa y to Monas h
Un i vers i t y, ” s he op ined.
“Because o f i ts program
me
s truc ture, I was a b le to e x
ce l
academ ica l l y and i t
mos t
de f in i te l y has con tr i bu te
d to
w here I am in m y l i fe toda y. ”
Loo k ing bac k to her seco
ndar y
sc hoo l educa t ion, w here
e ver y t h ing was e xam ina t ion
based, Grace a t tr i bu te
s t he
de ve lopmen t o f her so f t
and ora l
presen ta t ion s k i l ls to t he
M UF Y
programme. “I t was e xc
e l len t for
m y se l f-de ve lopmen t, ”
s he sa id.
T he coup le, w i l l be c
e le bra t ing
t he ir b ig da y in Ju l y t h is
year.
Congra tu la t ions!
Alumni