PULAU KETAM: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar) is offering up to 10 scholarships to excellent students from SMK Pulau Ketam.
Utar council chairman Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik said the scholarships, worth more than RM10,000 each, was for the university’s foundation courses.
[sc:YouTube id=”2hURomjeEGE” ]“For a start, we will offer three scholarships this year. Hopefully, this will spur them to study hard,” he said after visiting the island as part of Utar’s community project to assist needy students.
He also announced a RM20,000 donation to upgrade the school library.
Dr Ling said students who completed their foundation courses could apply for the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) loans and other scholarships, which would help pay for their education.
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Dr Ling talking to SMK Pulau Ketam students. With him is the school headmaster Law Choon Lee.
Currently, Utar has 22,000 students. More than 30,000 people have graduated from the university since it was established in 2002.
Dr Ling said the university had also given scholarships to its international students such as those from Kenya and Cambodia.
“As long as the students are good, we will offer them scholarships,” he said, adding that his dream was to make Utar a globalised university.
Form 5 student Chua Chang Xie, who wants to be an interior designer, hopes to be able to get the scholarship to achieve his ambition.
“I’ve always loved interior design. I want to improve and decorate our home as well as the homes of my friends so that it will be more comfortable and nice,” he said.
Chua, 17, is aiming to score 9As or 10As in the SPM examination and said he would definitely apply for the scholarship, which he believes would help ease his parents’ financial burden.
His friend, Ng Jing Ying hopes to get 8As in the SPM to realise her ambition to be a teacher and teach the children here.
“The scholarship will not only help financially, but it will give me a chance to mix with other students from all over Malaysia and other countries,” she said.
Sources : The Star