A collaboration that continues Ms Cooke’s legacy to education

The Sunway Education Group and BBGS Alumni Berhad, marked an important milestone in giving to society, with the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) recently.

Sunway Education Group which is under the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, an entity founded on the premise of giving to society through education, has pledged RM500,000 worth of scholarships to kick start the scholarships for tertiary studies offered by the Elena Cooke Education Fund (ECE Fund).

Ms Moey Yoke Lai, Founding Director, BBGS Alumni Berhad sealing the MoC with Elizabeth Lee

338 students rejoice during AUSMAT night

Sunway is known for recognising and rewarding students for their high academic achievement and extra-curricular activities. 338 students successfully completed their AUSMAT programme and were honoured for completing their foundation programme during the awards night.

Karen Toh Hui Qi received the Shield of Excellence for her high academic achievement and her invaluable contribution to programme activities. Karen was also a subject award winner for English as Additional Language/Dialect and the President of the AUSMAT Student Council. Karen said, “The AUSMAT programme is a positive transition in comparison to the SPM examinations. My participation in programme activities is not a detriment to my studies as I know my priorities.” Karen also acknowledged the lecturers for being dedicated, was grateful for a well-equipped library and stressed that there should be a good balance between studying and play.

The subject award winners with AUSMAT lecturers.

Youth Leadership Conference inspires youth to be a positive change

Sunway Education Group organised a Youth Leadership Conference, a leadership summit that attracted 1,000 young people to interact with and exchange ideas with an impressive roster of thought leaders and youth icons.

The event was organised by a group of six students of Sunway College and Sunway University including project director and ACCA student, Christopher Tan.

The panelists, from left, Wan Nadiah, Jacintha Tagal, Michael Teoh Su Lim, Christopher Tock and Cheah Kar Fei

Sunway students bag Harvard Prize Book awards

The Harvard Club of Malaysia collaborated with Sunway College to award the prestigious Harvard Prize Book awards to the college’s top pre-university students. Pan Eu Fern of the Cambridge A-Levels, Dawn Christon Ng Seet Yan of the Canadian International Matriculation Programme and Karen Toh Hui Qi from AUSMAT, each received their prize from Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Lin See Yan, President of the Harvard Club of Malaysia.

Professor Graeme Wilkinson, Vice-Chancellor, Sunway University; Elizabeth Lee, Dawn, Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Lee See Yan, Eu Fern, Karen, Tan Sri Dato’ (Dr) Ramon Navaratnam, Pro-Chancellor and Lee Weng Keng, CEO Education & Healthcare Division, the Sunway Group

Sunway-TES and ICAEW ink agreement to award scholarships for a world-renowned professional accounting qualification

Sunway-TES and the ICAEW recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on a new Sunway TES-ICAEW Global Accountant Scholarship Scheme for SPM 9A+ achievers.

Front left to right, Executive Director, Sunway College, Teo Ee Sing; Senior Executive Director, Sunway Education Group, Elizabeth Lee; ICAEW Executive Director, Learning & Professional Development, Mark Protherough and Head, ICAEW Malaysia Ms Loh Wei Yuen

Sunway Education Group celebrates 25 years of trailblazing education with SEE2012

The Sunway Education Expo 2012 (SEE2012), a signature event held to mark 25 years of trailblazing education, was a festival of ideas and creativity that lit up the hearts and minds of those who were present during the two-day event held at Sunway University recently. Themed “Inspiring Hearts and Minds”, SEE2012 was a platform where creative and innovative ideas as well as achievements in the areas of business, science, technology, languages, fashion, and the creative arts were brought forward.

SEE2012 saw an illustrious line-up of speakers who have in many ways impacted the world. The four sub-themes adopted by SEE2012 are (i) Icons, Geniuses, Mavericks, (ii) Eco-Imagination (iii) Social Innovation and (iv) Arts and Creativity.

Mano Maniam speaking about The Learning Business-Future Imperfect during SEE2012

Well-rounded straight-A students reap from teaching and experiences in Sunway A-Levels

Sunway College A-Level students who sat the June 2012 examinations did the college proud when 121 of them (45% of the students) scored straight-As and 100% passes. This is the largest group of straight-A students so far achieved by the A-level programme. Most in the group have secured places in top universities in the UK, US, Australia and Singapore. Among them, Oh Yue Jin received an offer to pursue Biological Sciences at Oxford University while Fiona Tay Ting Nuan was given an offer to read Mathematics, also at Oxford University. Ng Zhu Shen secured a place in Cambridge University to study engineering.

A group of straight-A students who performed in LIAMST