UMPSA to set up Malaysia's first TVET graduate school

PEKAN: Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA) will open the Graduate Engineering and Technological Business School (GET-BS) next year, the first Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) graduate school in the country.

The GET-BS will be a management and business graduate school, emphasising on technology and engineering.

UMPSA Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Aida Mustapha said the GET-BS, established under the industrial management faculty, would produce future business leaders who embrace technological transformation and innovation without neglecting sustainability and social responsibility.

"The GET-BS will offer academic programmes, training, research and consultation with a focus on sustainable business innovation and advanced TVET.

"The curriculum will be integrated with environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles to strengthen the high-tech ecosystem management.

"GET-BS students will get to interact with UMPSA researchers, the industry and community.

"At GET-BS, advanced TVET will include management and entrepreneurial skills to manage the high-tech ecosystem, human resource, stakeholders and community," she said today.

She said the GET-BS will be supported by the 11 clusters of knowledge at UMPSA — smart city, sustainable energy, vehicular technology, material sciences, industrial biotechnology, fine and specialty chemicals, management and social sciences, agriculture and food security, rare earth minerals, petrochemicals and construction.

UMPSA Deputy Vice-Chancellor (academic and international) Professor Datuk Dr Ahmad Ziad Sulaiman said the Malaysian Technical University Network's (MTUN) advanced TVET 2030 initiative provided a framework for technical universities like UMPSA to steer higher education towards flexibility, innovation and technology integration.

"UMPSA is confident that the GET-BS will ensure academic excellence and develop the country's human capital, in line with the aspirations of MTUN's advanced TVET 2030 initiative.

"This strategic investment not only aims to meet current industry demands, but also to prepare graduates to face the challenges of an ever more complex world."