We are proud to announce that two KDU University College students have won the prestigious Vice Chancellor’s Commendation Award for Academic Excellence from Murdoch University, Australia. Both of the girls pursued their Bachelor of Commerce, major in Accounting and minor in Business Law. Click HERE to read more.
This time around, we managed to catch them and have a little chit-chat session with them. Let's get up close and personal with Grace Goh and Roxzanne Rakhee!
From left: Dr.Tan Hui Leng (Acting Vice Chancellor, KDU University College), Prof.Khoo Kay Kim (Chancellor, KDU University College, Roxzanne and Grace Goh) .Grace Goh and Roxzanne Manohran amongst the top 2%
students across all Murdoch campuses worldwide!
Some management gurus refer to two specific dimensions
to define quality – performance quality and conformance quality. Performance
quality is often associated with operational superiority. Conformance quality
is the consistency in reproducing the same quality results repeatedly in a
reliable and dependable manner. If such are the measures of quality then KDU UC can
indeed claim to be an institution of outstanding quality.
You hear this phrase everywhere "Your future is in your hands." It is true because it is your decision, leading to your own future. However, there is a stage in life when you after completing your secondary schools years, Pre-University or Diploma, and you are still undecided what to do next.
On 18th July, Professor Arnold Depickere was present at KDU Damansara Jaya Campus to shed some insight to the students on their indecisiveness.
The Sadaghianifamily withKDU staff, Mr Lai Chee Onn (Academic Department Head) and Simon Lau (Programme Counsellor). Donya is on far right
with her dad. Far left is her mum.
17th July 2010, Section 13 campus, Petaling Jaya
Trusting in quality education
Many international students in placing their trust in KDU's quality education, have enrolled in various programmes such as Engineering, Hospitality & Tourism, Information Technology and Business. At the recent KDU's Open Day (17th and 18th July), the family of Sadaghiani from Iran were very interested in the two-year Diploma in Business for daughter, Donya, who has completed her high school. Her goal is to articulate into the degree programme offered by Keele University. Upon completing her diploma, she will be exempted from the lst year of the degree programme, and will enrol into Year 2, semester 1.
KDU College Diploma in Mass Communication students, Brandon Liu Jia Tar, Lim Charlson, Boo Sha Lyn, Lu Heng Shun and Amanda Khoo, had a lot to be happy about recently as the fruits of their labour were shown in reel life.
The students had directed and produced the college’s first ever cinema advertisement shown across Golden Screen Cinemas in One Utama (PJ), Midvalley Megamall (KL), Pavillion (KL) and One Borneo in Kota Kinabalu.
Students in colleges and universities are often tasked with case studies or projects based on real circumstances, and asked to present it to a panel of judges, be it their lecturers or other corporate figures, for marks.
With the belief that challenges facilitate learning experience, the college decided to take it one step further and asked its Diploma in Mass Communication March 2008 intake students to pitch for the job of producing the college’s cinema advertisement.
In a Film Studies workshop conducted by Mass Communication lecturers, Maha Abubakr and Gary La Faber, the students were given a brief on the project and had to brainstorm for ideas, which was then presented to the Head of Mass Communication, Sharon Ng and the college’s Advertising & Promotions Executive Jocelyn Loke.
Ideas from 12 groups were presented, and from there, three were shortlisted. The final three then had to come up with a storyboard to present to the management.
"Besides coming up with the storyboard, we also had to think long and hard about the logistics and resources. Finally, our ad ‘KDU Chase’ was then pitched to the management team and then we heard it – ‘Your idea is selected!’ It was then that it hit us – our idea could actually promote KDU College, and producing our own commercial would be an unforgettable experience!" said Amanda Khoo, one of the members from the winning team.
However, pitching for the job was just the beginning. The team had a long way to go. The pre-production process was not as smooth sailing as the team had imagined it to be, as they did not have the experience to produce such a large project.
The team took two days to film the entire advertisement. If things were a little chaotic on the first day, by the second day, they were deft hands. At the end of the second day, the team breathed with great relief as they shouted, "It’s a wrap!"
Amanda said, "We would be lying if we said that we did not have fun. It was great to sit in the "Director’s seat" and order people around, to be able to handle professional lightings and cameras, and to be able to go around saying, ‘I was part of this production.’ What we learn in class cannot top the actual experience of being a part of a real-life production team."
For KDU College PJ, call 03-77288123/ email best@kdu.edu.my, or log on to www.kdu.edu.my. For KDU College Penang, Call 04-2266368/ email best@kdupg.edu.my or log on to www.kdupg.edu.my
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