TUESDAY, 17 MAY –Tun Mustapha Residential College (KKTM) recently organised a Fitness Rally in conjunction with KKTM Open Day.

According to the director of the programme, Narmatha A/P Shanker, the programme aimed to encourange KKTM residents and the local community to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

“I am pleased that this programme ran smoothly and reached its objective that is to foster closer ties with one another,” she said.

The programme, which was held for two hours was led by Mazry Ismail from Fanatic Fitness Lovers leading participants in some fitness rally namely FUZE Fitness, Zumba Fitness and HipHop Dance.

Mazry explained that any exercise done was to achieve a certain goal and that was to improve and maintain health.

“Group events such as this is able to inculcate the spirit to continue being active among the public,” she concluded.  – (fl)

Source: Roslia Jalane, KKTM

TUESDAY, 17 MAY – Three postgraduate students of Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) recently competed at the 3 Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) 2016 at the national level held at Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM).

According to a statement issued by the Centre for Postgraduate Studies, UMS was represented by students from the Faculty of Psychology and Education (FPP), Ruslan Mapeala for the Social Science Category; Lorita Angeline from the Faculty of Engineering (FKJ) for the Engineering Category, and Lai Yun Mei (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences) for the Science and Technology Category.

The statement added that UMS participants for the 3MT competition had shown quality presentation and gave stiff competition to other competitors from local universities.

Participation in the 3MT provided a good opportunity to experience and share the results of their research with the public.

The 3MT competition is an annual event involving public university students undertaking the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) studies that requires them to present their PhD research results in not more than 180 seconds in layman terms.

The event was jointly organised by the Ministry of Higher Education and the Council of Deans of Postgraduate Studies, with UUM as host.

54 participants participated in the competition which aimed to find the best presenter to represent Malaysia at the 3MT international level competition at University of Queensland in October 2016.

Three participants from UMS were chosen after beating eight other participants at the 3MT Competition UMS, which was held on 23 March 2016.

3MT Competition originally started at the University of Queensland, Australia in 2008, and is now held in more than 200 universities worldwide. – SS (fl) 
Source: Centre for Postgraduate Studies

FRIDAY, 13 MAY – Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) recently won the International  Students Achievement Award 2015 at the International Appreciation Night 2016 ceremony held at Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT).

Director of the Centre for International Affairs, Molly Donna Awang Sham said, this award was a great accomplishment for UMS in strengthening internationalisation among its international students.

“The award takes into account several criteria namely, management of best international students, numbers of international students from various countries and university working relationship,” she explained.

The award was presented by the Director of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF), Professor Dato’ Dr. Morshidi Sirat.

UMS Vice-Chancellor, Professor Datuk Dr. Mohd Harun Abdullah through a statement via his Facebook also said, the success was a recognition of UMS’ efforts in promoting UMS as the best destination for international students to study in various disciplines at the university.

Apart from this award, the ceremony which was held at Sultan Mizan Hall, UMT also offered the International Students Diversity Achievement Award 2015.

Also present at the ceremony were the Vice-Chancellor of UMT, Professor Dato’ Dr. Nor Aieni Haji Mokhtar and the Director of Education Malaysia Division, Ministry of Higher Education, Jamalulail Abu Bakar. – (fl)

Held at the MBA Conference Room, FPEP, the half-day workshop which began at 8.30 am saw guest speaker from BPK, Che Hasruddin Che Hasan, delivering a talk on “Article Writing According to UMS Guidelines”.

This was followed by a session by lecturer of Corporate Communication, FPEP, Jakaria Dasan sharing his experience in a talk entitled, “Article Writing Practical Techniques: TM IS OK”.

Dean of FPEP, Professor Dr. Rasid Mail when speaking at the opening ceremony said the Workshop was organised so that lecturers could see article writing as a means to enhance the culture of writing research results according to their expertise.

According to him, the press was no less important because people were more sensitive to news or research written in the newspapers and available journals, and to make people more aware of the expertise available in UMS besides making UMS as their reference point in the future.

“Lecturers should see article writing as a necessity, because lecturers are 'subject –matter expert' who can share their expertise with the public.

“This will also help enhance the people’s  life through the sharing of knowledge by the lecturers through article writing in the papers,” Professor Dr. Rasid Mail added.

Meanwhile, Che Hasruddin in his session stressed on some specific rules that should be looked into by lecturers in producing an article where lecturers should also be more sensitive about current issues when writing.

“In this connection, an article should be able to contribute to the current issues that are going on.  However, focus should also be given to the results of their research, that could be beneficial and made known to all,” he said.

Jakaria Dasan in his slot also highlighted some technical matters relating to income generation and devising an article.

According to him, readers only have 3 seconds to decide whether to read an article or not, hence title plays a very big role.

“A short and interesting title and written as brief as possible should be emphasised when selecting the title to attract your readers.

Besides current and sensational issues, an article is also read because of the style of writing.  Therefore, when writing an article, the writer must think that he or she is representing the newspaper and not simply representing the organisation.

“This will make the writers be more alert in analysing issues and not be frivolous,” he stressed.

According to Jakaria, using simple analogy, issues would be the poison , whilst articles written by lecturers would be the antidote.

The Article Writing Workshop chaired by the Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation FPEP, Dr. Noor Fazlinda Fabeil among others aimed at inspiring the culture of writing  amongst its lecturers, and would be continued in Series 2 in the near future with focus on practical and a session with Editors of selected newspapers. – (fl)

Source: Jakaria Dasan, FPEP