KUCHING: KTS Group of Companies will be holding an educational event – KTS Education Forum – on Dec 12 at KTS Garden in Pending here. The forum will start at 8am with registration of participants and ends at 4.45pm that day.
The forum is held as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations in an effort to garner ideas to contribute towards the all-encompassing issue of educating the nation’s young generation.
KTS also hopes to produce a report on the ideas generated and expressed through this forum that can be submitted to the government on education issues from the Sarawak perspective as well as useful materials for students in educational institutions.
KTS Group managing director Dato Henry Lau will be officiating at the forum and deliver his welcoming speech at 8.55am.
The topics to be presented are:
•‘Education System: Strengths and Weaknesses’ by Prof Dr Lau Seng, Environmental Chemistry professor and director of Centre for Technology Transfer and Consultancy in Unimas;
•‘Education role: Building national integration and unity in our multi-ethnic and multi-religious society’ (Dr Welyne Jeffrey Jehom, senior lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Universiti Malaya)
•‘The role of parents in students’ education’ (Assistant Minister of Public Health, medical doctor and Bengoh assemblyman Dr Jerip Susil).
•‘Education issues: Bridging performance gap between urban and rural areas’ by Prof Dr Selvaraj Oyyan Pillay, director of Institute of Professional Development, Open University Malaysia;
•‘Education quality: Building an advanced and progressive society’ (Bandar Kuching MP, Kota Sentosa assemblyman and lawyer Chong Chieng Jen);
•‘Tertiary Education: The role of universities in HR development’ (Assoc Prof Dr Beena Giridharan, Dean-Teaching & Learning, Curtin University of Technology, Miri)
•‘Chinese education: A reflection of Chinese education in Malaysia’ (International Association of Appreciation Education President Tsen Kui On).
Participants will proceed for lunch at 1.30pm.
The organisers will hold small group discussions led by the speakers or paper presenters after the lunch for invited participants only.
Group A will be discussing on ‘Education Meritocracy: Is our education producing graduates on par with graduates from other universities in the world?’
Group B will be discussing on ‘Place of English: The relevance and importance of English in our education system’ while Group C, ‘Matching education with the needs of the industry’.
For enquiries, please call Avril Soon or James Chia at Tel. 082-345033 during office hours.