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UEM Land Organizes SPM Motivational Talk for its Secondary PINTAR Schools
JOHOR BAHRU, Saturday, July 17th 2010: UEM Land Holdings Berhad, the master developer of Nusajaya and key driver of Iskandar Malaysia, organized a SPM Motivational Talk for its PINTAR secondary schools today.
The 200 students from UEM Land’s 4 “adopted” secondary schools under the PINTAR Programme attended the full-day talk at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai. The talk was conducted by an invited guest speaker from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Dr. Mohd Zolkifli Bin Abd Hamid, who is a well-known motivator and has been actively conducting motivational seminar for students and exam candidates for the past 13 years.
In its pioneering year of organizing such an event, the programme aimed at providing encouragement and motivation to the students in facing academic challenges, specifically the SPM examination. This is also an attempt to build mental and psychological strength, boost the students’ self-confidence, and to help them stay focused and motivated to study for the upcoming SPM examinations.
The talk was graced by the presence of UEM Land’s Deputy General Manager of Quality Assurance & Occupational Safety and Health and Environment Department (QA&OSHE), Puan Sohaila Bte Haji Yahya who delivered an inspiring speech and also presented the certificate of participation to the participants.
“Over the last three years, we have made a commitment, under our PINTAR programme, to improve the academic performance of our adopted schools and we are confident that our efforts will bear fruits soon. We will continuously monitor the performance of these schools to determine the effectiveness of the programmes implemented”, said Sohaila.
UEM Land is committed to its principle of ‘responsible corporate citizenship’ and its CSR thrust is on education and community development. Education has been identified as a key enabler that will contribute towards bridging the socio economic between the urban and rural communities. To-date, there is a total of 17 schools; 13 primary and 4 secondary schools under UEM Land’s PINTAR Schools Programme. Since 2008, UEM Land has organized several programs with the schools for both teachers and students such as ICT training program and a series of educational clinics and workshops to prepare students for the UPSR, PMR and SPM examinations.
The ceremony was also attended by some of UEM Land’s staff children who will be sitting for the SPM examinations later this year.