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Last Updated on 28-11-2013 THURSDAY

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Open to Commonwealth degrees

Sabrina Ooi : Director of Communications
 Wawasan Open University College is teaming up with the intergovernmental Commonwealth of Learning (COL) to offer Executive masters programmes in business and public administration by distance learning.

Malaysian People's Movement Party (Gerakan - the second-largest Chinese-based party in Malaysia)  is setting an open university based in Penang. The Wawasan Open University College will start enrolling the first 1,000 students by September. 

Wawasan Open University College and COL signed an affiliation agreement at a ceremony here 4 April 2006 that will pave the way for working adults to obtain an internationally recognized qualification without having to quit their jobs or to attend evening or weekend classes.

COL was created by the Commonwealth Heads of Government in 1987 and is the only intergovernmental organization working towards enhancing access to education and training through open learning.

The Commonwealth Executive MBA and MPA (CEMBA/CEMPA) programmes are the outcome of collaboration between the Vancouver-based COL and four open universities in South Asia.   These degree programmes when they become available in Malaysia will mark another milestone in the collaborative approach adopted by the international open learning community.

CEMBA/CEMPA as it is currently run in the other open universities allow students the option to leave at various stages in the programme after having earned a certificate, diploma, graduate diploma or degree.

Wawasan Open is opening its doors to undergraduate students in October 2006. The main campus in Penang will be supported by regional offices and learning centers in Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, and Johor Baru, with the coverage later expanded to cover all states in the country.

On February 26 2005, Gerakan's Wawasan Education Foundation marked the first formal step toward establishing this open university when it received an official invitation from Malaysia's Higher Education Ministry to set up Wawasan Open University College.

Courses Available :  The university college will initially have three faculties – Science and Technology, Business and Administration and Foundation Studies – offering 11 degree programmes.  This new university will offer a wide range of college courses giving chances to obtain tertiary qualifications for the  about 5 million eligible labor workers in Malaysia who have no access to tertiary education.

The application for WOU will be open in the next few days and the first batch is slated to start January next year.

More about : http://www.gerakan.org.my/wawasan_booklet.pdf
Wawasan Open University

The house of the late Yeap Chor Ee at Jalan Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah (formerly Northam Road), Penang.

This house and land was donated by the trustee of the late Yeap Chor Ee(1867-1952) to Wawasan Open University, Penang.

TOWKAY YEAP CHOR EE
1867 - 1952
INSPIRATION TO SUCCEED


Trader, banker and philanthropist. A native son of Nam Aun, Fukien China.


His indefatigable energy and business acumen is a testimony to man's ingenuity to succeed.


This statue is donated by Trustees of the Estate of Yeap Chor Ee in celebration of their grandfather/ great grandfather's fortitude and foresight.



Dedicated November 28th, 2007

 

Photo Right : The statute of the late Yeap Chor Ee

 YEAP CHOR EE

Wawasan Open University, Penang, MalaysiaWawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia

 Photo above : The main campus, comprising 12 storey Albukhary Building and restoration of the Homestead (heritage mansion) were completed in December 2007. The university was officially opened by the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

 web site  www.wou.edu.my

Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia is a private open learning institution set up to cater for life long learning community without border. The University uses flexible approach to make education available to all Malaysian.

The university is located at Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah (or Northam Road), at the land formally owned by the late Yeap Chor Ee family. The present University office was formerly the home of the family house called Homestead at the famous Millionaire Rows.

The Yeap family foundation also donated substantially to the university.


The university was initiated by Gerakan Education Foundation, later renamed to Wawasan Education Foundation.

First batch of students was taken in January 2007. There was 720 students for the first intake, with student's age ranged from 21 to 71 years.


On November 2008, Tun Dr Lim Chong Ewe,  the former Chief Minister of Penang, was appointed as first Chancellor of the university.
 

The University now has  6 regional offices in Malaysia : Penang, Ipoh, Johor Bahru, Kuala Lumpur, Bandar Utama, and Kota Bahru.

 

Homestead Building : The campus premises is the 12-storey extension 11,000 square meter of Homestead Building - a heritage building designed in 1919 and donated by the Yeap Chore Ee Charitable Trust and the Yeap Chor Ee Endowment Trust.  The heritage mansion had been home to the Yeaps, a prominent banking family in Penang, for almost 60 years.  The late Yeap Chor Ee, who founded the Penang-based Ban Hin Lee Bank, bought over the colonial-style property from shipping magnate Lim Mah Chye in the 1940s. 

Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia

November 28, 2013 10:25:35 AM

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