Sapawi (back row, centre) with Bahiwata and Zaidah as well as some of the students partaking in the student exchange program.
KOTA KINABALU: Yayasan Sabah renews it pledge to carry on producing human capital with excellent academic value and personality in 2016.
“Yayasan Sabah will continue to produce the best human capital from time to time and education remains as its priority,” said its director Datuk Sapawi Ahmad at a gathering with students at the Yayasan Sabah Auditorium here yesterday.
He added the institution had introduced various programs to prioritize the development of education including a student exchange program between Peninsular Malaysia and both of the East Malaysian states.
The program, introduced in 1968, has thus far involved over 10,000 students from Sabah as part of Yayasan Sabah’s objective to strengthen education in the state since its 1967 establishment under the tutelage of the late Tun Mustapha Harun.
Sapawi stressed that the program had thus far succeeded in achieving this objective and become one of the highest levels of national integration program.
He added that the program had produced many of today’s state leaders and senior leaders in the civil service.
“Such a program has achieved remarkable effectiveness and we will ensure it continues to do so in line with Yayasan Sabah’s education development agenda,” said Sapawi.
Some 50 students involved in the program attended the ceremony. Also present were Education Development Manager of Yayasan Sabah Group Bahiwata Mulia and Yayasan Sabah Senior Branch Manager Zaidah Hussien.