Swordie Bloggie

After I had my breakfast this morning at the 88 Commercial Centre Kepayan, I saw a banner… Majlis Perasmian Kolej Yayasan Sabah, Skill Training Centre Kepayan. No wonder there seem to be a lot of people around the area with official attire.

The Sabah Foundation College was setup there for almost a year if I’m not mistaken… they are renting the the whole 2 floors of the 3 floors commercial block. They have been expanding their courses till their existing college behind my office at Sembulan is no longer enough. In fact they are in the process of building their University on their field in Sembulan… behind my office… and it is already 5 floors tall… I guess it will be completed by next year.

Sabah Foundation or YS for Yayasan Sabah, has been providing community services since 70s… they expanded their skill training school to college… and soon to University.

From the info I get from their website, currently they are offering multimedia, ICT, automotive and building construction courses. I believe they will introduce medical teaching course or medical management course once they start their university since one of their main community service is Flying Doctor Service to rural areas.

The courses they offering are in collaborations with other universities such as University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), University Petronas and few other colleges. Collaboration or twining programme is good since YS do not have the full fledge college or university before… so it is like technology transfer or teach the teacher course before they build their university. Anyway, I’m looking forward for their university behind my office… probably I can do some part time tutoring if I’m qualified… maybe have to go through their consultant interview course first before I can join them… 😛

After my form five, I applied to three local universities… well, at that time it was two universities and one institution. They are Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Universiti Pertanian Malasia (UPM) and Institut Teknologi Mara (ITM, now changed to university, UITM).

I applied to these three coz they are offering Computer Science… and I put Computer Science as my first choice course. When the reply came, the first one was from UPM… but unfortunately they offered me my second or third choice (can’t really remember) which was Agriculture course… and it will be in Sarawak.

I was really mad and sad when I received it coz at that time applications supposed to be centralized… meaning all applications to any local universities and institutions will be ‘piled’ to one ‘department’ to avoid overlapping offer so that all applicants can get chance. . . . Continue Reading »