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KUCHING IS THE CAPITAL OF SARAWAK
Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus is the international branch campus of Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. The Sarawak campus opened in Kuching, the capital city of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, in 2000
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SWINBURNE IN SARAWAK
Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus is the international branch campus of Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. The Sarawak campus opened in Kuching, the capital city of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, in 2000.
The campus is a partnership between Swinburne Australia and the Sarawak government. The campus is part of a long-term strategy by Swinburne Australia, established in 1908, to globalize its operations and provide its students with international living, working and learning opportunities.
Since it was first set up, Swinburne Sarawak has been growing rapidly. The custom-designed campus has a current student population of 3700. Apart from Malaysia, students hail from more than 50 countries including Bangladesh, Brunei, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, making it a truly international university.
Only 15 minutes away from the heart of Kuching city and nestled within commercial and residential areas, the 16.5-acre campus offers undergraduate degrees in engineering, science, commerce, computing and design that are identical to those of its home campus in Australia. Also offered are postgraduate research programs at PhD and masters in these disciplines as well as the Master of Management. Others include one-year foundation programs in business, design, information technology/multimedia, engineering and science, as well as diploma programs in business, and engineering which articulate into degrees. A range of English language proficiency programs are also available.
Students may complete their degrees entirely in Kuching or transfer to one of its campuses in Melbourne to complete them.
These courses are a fraction of the cost of studying in Australia and parchments are awarded by Swinburne Australia.
Swinburne Sarawak is rated Tier 5: Excellent, the highest rating achieved by any university, in the Malaysian Qualifications Agency’s 2011 Rating System for Higher Education (SETARA ’11).
The MQA is responsible for monitoring and overseeing the quality assurance practices and accreditation of national higher education in Malaysia.
http://www.swinburne.edu.my/about_swinburne.php
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28 October 2015
Borneo Post Online
700 Swinburne graduates receive scrolls
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Star
Saturday November 16, 2013 MYT 3:13:42 PM
Swinburne Sarawak appoints MDeC as programme adviser
An honour: Tang (left) and Lee after formalising the agreement.
KUCHING: Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus has appointed the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) as an adviser for its Bachelor of Design (Multimedia Design) programme.
This was formalised with the signing of an agreement by MDeC digital enablement department manager Tang Mun Wai and Swinburne Sarawak business and design faculty acting dean Dr Lee Miin Huui here recently.
MDeC, based in Cyberjaya, directs and oversees the national ICT initiative known as the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC).
“At Swinburne Sarawak, we ensure that not only are our courses relevant to the needs of industry but also set the standard for industry. To do this, we constantly engage with companies near and far to maintain the high quality of our courses.
“We are certainly honoured that MDeC has come on board as an adviser for our multimedia design programme. As the driver of ICT in the country, it brings with it an array of expertise in the field and our students will benefit tremendously from its involvement in the programme, especially in creative mobile content design and development,” Lee said.
Tang will sit on the advisory committee to assist the faculty in providing in-demand, industry-relevant teaching and research programmes in multimedia app design.
Swinburne Sarawak appoints MDeC as programme adviser
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easyuni.com
Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak, Kuching, Malaysia
Six from industry appointed Adjunct Professor and Adjunct Teaching Fellow
KUCHING – Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus recently appointed six entrepreneurs as Adjunct Professor and Adjunct Teaching Fellow.
They were recently presented with a letter and certificate of appointment by Professor Anthony Cahalan, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Swinburne Sarawak at the university’s “Entrepreneurs Week”.
The Adjunct Professors are Dato Sri Effendi Bin Norwawi, executive chairman of Encorp Berhad; Datuk Philip Ting Ding Ing, a director at Encorp Berhad and Ibraco Berhad Group; Barry Lim Sun Heng, an entrepreneur from Penang; and Derek Goh Bak Heng, executive director of Serial System Limited, Singapore.
John Jong Ching Nien, managing director and chief creative officer of Thinkscape Group, and Ir. Sr. Alex Ting Kuang Kuo, a consulting engineer of WTS Konsultant Sdn Bhd, were appointed Adjunct Teaching Fellow.
Effendi, who earned his degree in Development Administration from the University of Tasmania, founded Encorp Berhad in 2000. Three years later, the construction management and property development conglomerate was listed on the Main Board of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange.
Philip Ting holds an accounting degree from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He sits on the board of directors at Swinburne Sarawak, and is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants. He is Australia’s longest serving honorary consul, commencing in 1989. Ting initiated Swinburne Sarawak’s recent Entrepreneurs Week, where five of his counterparts were guest speakers, for the benefit of students.
Barry Lim is a prominent Swinburne alumnus who started his career as a plantation manager, and later ventured into agriculture research and development. Lim, who prides himself as an inventor and innovator, has more than 40 years’ experience in business and agriculture technologies.
Goh, of Serial System Limited, listed his electronic components distribution company on the Singapore Stock Exchange two decades after its establishment, and later on the Main Board. Established in 1988, the company is today one of the largest in Asia, and is reputed to have one of the biggest distribution networks in the region.
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Media Center
Swinburne best for graduate satisfaction
Date posted: Tuesday 27 Aug 2013
Swinburne University of Technology has again been rated as one of Melbourne’s top teaching and research universities by the Good Universities Guide 2014, released today.
The guide has given Swinburne a five-star rating for overall satisfaction, consolidating a five-year record of being best in Melbourne.
“This satisfaction rating is underpinned by high ratings for the educational experience we offer our students,” Swinburne Vice-Chancellor Professor Linda Kristjanson said.
“For teaching quality, staff-student ratios, generic skills and overall satisfaction, Swinburne’s ratings reflect the highest levels of graduate satisfaction that we have received in a decade.
“These results are a credit to our dedicated academics who teach and conduct cutting-edge research across the full spectrum of courses that we offer.
For the full article, click on
Swinburne best for graduate satisfaction
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Media Center
Students clean up Santubong beach
The 40-odd Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus students were partakers in the “Bagtastrophe” campaign initiated by biotechnology undergraduate Angelica Fiona Tan to reduce the use of plastic-based products, in particular plastic bags.
Tan is one of Bayer’s Young Environmental Envoy, a program the global German healthcare and agriculture company organises in partnership with the United Nations Environment Program to develop young leaders and create environmental awareness.
The program requires the 12 selected envoys in Malaysia to implement environmental projects which will be judged in September. The two top-performing envoys will earn an all-expense paid trip to Germany in November to learn about trends and perspectives in environmental protection and sustainability.
On the beach, the second-year undergraduate scoured the coastline for trash with her like-minded peers. By the end of the half-day outing, they cleared the beach of litter and collected 18 large bags of rubbish – 1,526 pieces of discarded items.
Read the full article in http://swinburne.edu.my/media/media_release/2013/media_details040913.html
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Published on Oct 25, 2012
Fishermen and sailors saw a profile of a woman when they looked ashore at the mountain from the South China Sea. Many visitors say they see an outline of a woman lying on the shore with her long hair flowing to the sea. Today, the head portion of the mountain is still unchanged- the forehead, the eyes, the nose, the mouth right up to the neck, bosom, belly and legs pointing to the sea
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WikiTravel
SANTUBONG
Set under the spectacularly steep 810m peak of Gunung Santubong, the Santubong Peninsula is home to Sarawak‘s finest beach resorts and its famous Cultural Village and only 35 minutes drive from Kuching.
7th-14th Century – Santubong Era . According to the Encyclopedia of Iban Studies the original inhabitants of Santubong are Ibans the sea Dyak.Derived from the word Si-antu-ubong which means the spirit boat in the Iban language.Antu is hantu in Malay.
Local Legend
Among the famous legend of Santubong is the tale of jealousy and rage which had a tragic ending.
Legend tells of two sisters who were princesses of kayangan, the celestial kingdom who were well-liked by the people as they assisted them in their disputes. The princesses, Princess Santubong and Princess Sejinjang were invited by the people to live among them, which they graciously did.
Princess Santubong, the more beautiful of the two, had many suitors, got married and subsequently became pregnant. This made Princess Sejinjang very jealous, and consequently, she began to claim that she was more beautiful than her sister. Santubong would not agree and a huge argument ensued between the two. In the end Sejinjang became violent and hit her pounding pestle on the head of Santubong, who fell to the earth and grew into the mountain that bears her name. However, just before Santubong fell she threw her weaving loom’s beam at Sejinjang, breaking a part of her body, which scattered into the sea, creating the islands in the area (Pulau Kera, Pulau Burong, Satang/Talang-talang and so on). Meanwhile, the rest of Sejinjang’s body also fell to the earth and became the other mountain near Mount Santubong.
That is why the profile of Gunung or Mount Santubong looks like a lady lying on the horizon if viewed from various angles from the South China Sea.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Santubong
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THE silhouette of a woman lying down can hardly be missed by anyone visiting Kuching.
Star
THE SANTUBONG LEGEND LIVES ON
It’s in the mountain, the peninsula and the many documents of concerned authorities
It’s in the mountain, the peninsula and the many documents of concerned authorities. THE silhouette of a woman lying down can hardly be missed by anyone visiting Kuching. The legend has been told over and over, and is even narrated in the lyrics of what is today, a popular state song Puteri Santubong.
http://mystar.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
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