WITH the shift towards a digital economy, the workforce of tomorrow will require specialised skills and knowledge to seize the future and the opportunities that will potentially come their way.
Leading the way in nurturing today’s young generation to become the workforce of tomorrow, Heriot-Watt University Malaysia (HWUM) has unrolled its new BSc (Hons) Computing Science programme.
A truly international university, Heriot-Watt boasts five global campuses and partner institutions in over 100 countries with approximately 27,000 students worldwide.
Drawing on its experience of offering quality education over the years, the BSc Computing Science programme was developed with the needs of the workforce of the future in mind. It focuses on software development and algorithms, with the aim of constructing robust and usable systems for industry and commerce.
To her own beat 05 Jul 2021 / 11:23 H. Talented tenor drummer Sukhpreet has been playing in a pipe band since she was a young girl. – Courtesy of Sukhpreet Kaur
THE Sri Dasmesh Pipe Band made waves two years ago when it won the World Pipe Band Championships in Scotland.
Sukhpreet Kaur first joined the band as an eight-year-old together with her older brother. Several family members and friends were already in the band, and Sukhpreet and her brother decided to try it out.
Sukhpreet eventualy made her debut with the band at age 11, and has been leading the tenor section for the past decade, and also recently picked up the snare drums. Now 24, Sukhpreet, who recently finished her MEng in Mechanical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, says that she still has many more goals to achieve with the band in the future.
Seniors grappling with WFH Pix for illustration purposes
PETALING JAYA: A lifetime of spending eight hours a day, five days a week at the office is difficult to rub off for 57-year-old Mary Sanda.
She is struggling to adjust to working from home (WFH), which is mandatory now that the country is under lockdown to stem the spread of Covid-19.
“Sitting in front of the computer for long periods gives me a headache and that indirectly triggers anxiety,” the operations administration personnel told
theSun.
Worse than that, she now finds herself working beyond 6pm, a time she would have clocked out had she been working at the office.
HWUM thanks teachers with gift bags accompanied by silver and blue balloons as its token of appreciation.
AN impetus for digitalisation, the Covid-19 health crisis has signalled a paradigm shift in every part of our daily lives.
Similarly for the education sector in countries across the globe, there has been drastic change in the delivery of both teaching and learning towards partial or even fully digital platforms, as well as the expanded role and responsibilities of educators.
Arguably, this sudden and unprepared transformation has been a unique educational and social experiment for teachers, parents and children alike.
What held true through such turbulent winds of change was the unwavering heart and soul of education: our teachers.
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But no thanks to challenges that have emerged due to the Covid-19 pandemic, new norms have been formed and your education is no exception.
At Heriot-Watt University (HWU), some of these seemingly adjunct practices are integral to the university’s overall long-term plan to instil flexibility.
Besides helping everyone to deal with the current situation, it also helps to prepare students for a future rife with heightened technological progress and redundancy in manual labour.