The Impending Celebration of a New Birth

KDU College is awaiting the new arrival of its new sister-institution, KDU College Section 13 Campus which will house the institution’s Business, Law and ADP schools. Being the third campus for tertiary studies, the Section 13 campus is built to accommodate these rapidly growing schools. This move provides an opportunity for further expansion from the already 3,500 strong student population. The Section 13 campus encompasses a more modern look with a cosy cafeteria terrace, trendy library and computer labs, purpose-built classrooms, a vast car park and a stylish rooftop lounge.

This move is also timely with the re-introduction of the American Degree Program (ADP). Students may opt to complete up to the first 2 years of the programme in KDU College under the ADP structure and transfer to any university in the USA. Regarded as the most flexible programme, the ADP at KDU offers a myriad of majors in the areas of science, engineering, liberal arts, humanities, social science, etc. With respectable, American-educated educators, there is no doubt students of the ADP at KDU will live up to the notion of being an agile all-rounder.

With the opening ceremony of the new campus drawing near, preparations for the celebration is underway. A rock concert and lion dance to commemorate this event have been the talk of the town. “It has been a long time ever since ‘Simple Plan’ visited KDU that I’ve seen the college abuzz with so much activity” says one excited student. “This is a true embodiment of a campus life!”


By Serena Ng

Launching with a Big Bang!

KDU Section 13 promises an east meets west of rock & roll and lion dance that will reverberate throughout PJ.

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By Serena Ng

Keele University Experience Launch

KDU College Penang has recently launched the double major, Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Business Management and Finance and Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Business Management & Human Resource Management. The event was filled with prospective parents and students of Diploma in Business from KDU College. On 1st February 2010, the Penang State Exco of Local Government and Traffic Management, YB Mr. Chow Kon Yeow, was here to grace this ceremony and delivered a speech. In addition, KDU College has invited a guest speaker, Dr. Lim Hock Eam, a senior lecturer of University Utara Malaysia (UUM) to give an interesting talk about the business economic outlook in Malaysia to the parents and students.

Ranked 42nd in The Times Good University Guide 2010, Keele University is renowned for its exciting and innovative approach to higher education and excellent student life. Keele University offers students a modern and internationally recognized education. Keele University is the most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in the United Kingdom and 80% of Keele University’s undergraduate students are taking Dual Honours pogrammes, where they study two subjects with equal weight for their degrees. It is in fact a remarkable achievement that more than 96% of Keele graduates are recorded to enter employment to further their studies within six months after graduation.

Employers are increasingly demanding competent graduates with interpersonal skills, team-working abilities, flexibility, adaptability and excellent communication skills. At KDU, students will have the opportunity to develop all of these skills through academic study, work experience and extra-curricular activities.

According to YB Mr. Chow Kon Yeow, “There are many job opportunities for business graduates across the various industries in the manufacturing as well as the services sectors in our country. Our country needs more business graduates to help lift our economy to a higher level and at the same time improve the Malaysians standard of living. So my advice to those students who has pursued or intend to pursue a business degree you should not worry whether you can get a job or otherwise.”

With the support of quality and experience lecturers, well-equipped modern facilities, and efficient administration, KDU College Penang Campus has grown from strength to strength. The launch of Keele University’s double-major Business Management Programmes is in line with KDU’s vision of providing excellent education that is both locally and internationally recognized.

Principal of KDU College Penang, Dr. Chong Beng Keok said, “We are constantly developing fields of studies that are market driven and industry relevant in order to ensure that our graduates are readily employable. The challenging Keele syllabi emphasize on a high degree of critical and analytical thinking. It also builds up students’ ability in handling and solving mutli-disciplinary problems that are happening in the present professional business world.”

ENTERING THE NEW YEAR WITH HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

Penang – To promote an active lifestyle among Malaysians, KDU College Penang Campus has launched the Healthy Lifestyle Campaign. This has been organized in conjunction with KDU Orientation programme for the new January 2010 intake in collaboration with Pejabat Kesihatan Daerah Timur Laut and Agensi Dadah Kebangsaan Pulau Pinang.

With the theme, “Stay Healthy, Live Longer”, this campaign was held for two days on 6th and 7th January providing information to students and staff of KDU College. The objective of the campaign is basically to increase the awareness and knowledge of the public about diseases that arise as a result of unhealthy lifestyles as well as to motivate the Malaysian public to adopt health-promoting practices and lifestyle.

On 6th January, the programme focused on anti-smoking exhibition, drug abused exhibition, healthy eating information, BMI checking, blood pressure and free consultation on health check-ups. In addition, on 7th January, there was a blood donation programme held from 9.00am to 4.00pm for the public and other programmes continued as usual. This blood donation programme was organised by the KDU Health Club especially for this Healthy Lifestyle Campaign. The response from the students and staff was fantastic.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a healthy environment is a place where everyone lives to achieve an agreed vision on health and well-being of the community. It provides the community with physical, psychological, social and organisational conditions that protect and promote health and safety.A healthy environment focuses on the protection of the health of the individual from harm due to potentially hazardous, stressful or degraded environment.

A healthy diet and lifestyle are your best weapons to fight cardiovascular disease. Nutritional food is essential for human in order to stay healthy. Therefore, there was a talk on “How to eat well, to live well” from the KDU Nursing lecturer regarding nutritional food consumption. The talk has imparted new knowledge to the audiences on ways of eating a balanced diet to prevent any unwanted diseases.

In addition, community action and participation is essential for promoting a healthy environment. Community-based activities and projects relating to a healthy environment carried out nation-wide both in the urban and rural areas need to be intensified.
We urge the public to show their support to this campaign on bringing the awareness to more people in Penang. This campaign will be a whole year event in 2010 and there will be more upcoming activities organized by KDU College. Our next healthy lifestyle activities would be on 24th March 2010 with more talks, activities and exhibitions.

Brand New KDU College Section 13 Campus

KDU College is proud to announce that the new Section 13 Campus is now open for business. Classes at this campus will commence on the 4th January (Monday). The new campus will be the new home to programmes such as Business, Law and American Degree Programme (ADP). Please click image to enlarge or contact 03-7728 8123 for more information.

CHARIS HOSPICE CHRISTMAS TEA 2009

This annual event was organized by Charis Hospice to bring some Christmas cheer to the patients and the families of Charis Hospice. Charis Hospice was grateful to various companies that have sponsored the event in the past. This year, Christmas Tea was hosted by KDU College Penang Campus.

There were about 140 people including patients, families, staff and volunteers. The highlight of the event was sharing from four of Charis Hospice patients about their cancer journey. We were also thankful to the young people from Penang First Assembly of God and Penang Christian Centre who presented the lively Christmas Story and Carol Singing. In addition, JDC Dancehouse performed two attention-grabbing dances.

Charis Hospice is a non-profit organization offering free palliative home care services to patients with cancer and other advanced illnesses in Penang Island, irrespective of race and religion. It also provides counseling and support group services to newly diagnosed cancer patients and survivors. Services are provided by trained medical and non-medical staff and volunteers.

KDU College Penang has been supporting Charis Hospice first through the Christian Fellowship and now as Community Outreach for the School of Nursing and Allied Health. Our Nursing students have been attached to Charis Hospice to provide home-based nursing care, health education and support to care givers and family members.

Ms. Chan Nee Nee, the Director of Studies, KDU College Penang mentioned in her speech, “The School of Nursing aims to develop caring nurses who are able not only to apply their technical knowledge and skills but also to demonstrate compassion and concern to their patients. We want to instill in our students the spirit of volunteerism so that they can contribute to society as well.”

Last week, the School of Nursing and Allied Health celebrated their Annual Dinner and Farewell to their First Batch of Graduate Nurses. All the graduates have already had job offers: some were on scholarships and others not on scholarships have been offered several job offers and are considering their choices. Our Nursing students will not only be technically competent, they will be distinguished by their compassion and concern to their patients and community.

In addition, next year 2010, Oral Presentation and Group Work will be introduced into every subject. The aims are to make our Nursing students more articulate, to express their views and concerns and to be able to communicate well to different members of the community.

Palliative care emphasizes quality of life – “We cannot add days to life but we may be able to add life to days”. The following are some comments of Charis Hospices’ patients (have since passed away) and family members:-

1: “I have been given 6 months to live but I have surpassed that. I want to thank God for sending people to help me cope during this time. I also want to thank Charis Hospice for all their help and prayers”.

2: “With the help of Charis Hospice professional medical team I need not go to hospital for treatment. I am more relaxed now. I have surrendered everything to God and put my trust in Him. I am really appreciative of my wife now because she has taken over many responsibilities from me”.

3: “We thank Charis Hospice for taking such good care of my father from the time he was discharged from the hospital until his death. We were advised on how to take care of his personal needs and medication to relieve his pain. This helped us tremendously. We did not have to carry the heavy burden alone”.

4: “Father’s last moments were peaceful, happy and free from suffering. You helped him understand and accept his situation, alleviated his discomfort and touched his heart and the hearts of all his living relatives”.

5: “Though we knew you for a brief time only, the service, care and dedication shown by the staff of Charis Hospice gives us hope in humanity … to serve with honor and privilege”.