Soaring Upwards: Let’s Talk Higher Education

The Soaring Upwards 2016: Let's Talk Higher Education, by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia took place at Jeffrey Cheah Hall, Sunway University last Saturday with a full house. Sunway University was honoured to be the host for this event, thus as a wrap-up of the event for this year. The programme was hosted by the Minister, Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh in disseminating information on higher education in Malaysia as well as successes that have been achieved at national and international levels.

Five icons were invited, they were Her Excellency Victoria Treadell, British Higher Commissioner to Malaysia; Dr. Abhi, UPM Geneticist and Famelab Science Communication Champion; Ummi Nazeera, actress and Executive Director of Pointray; Dzameer Dzulkifli, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Teach for Malaysia and Joel Neoh, entrepreneur and Founder of Groupon Malaysia and KFit. There was also a Career Fair held at the University Foyer by more than 30 companies namely Maybank, KPMG, Grubcycle and the Pitcha Project to name a few. Also present were Datuk Dr. Mary Yap, Deputy Higher Education Minister, Senior Officers from the ministry as well as Sunway Senior Management Team.