Deputy Minister of Higher Education YB Dato' Hou Kok Chung handed over the approval letter from the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) for Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) to offer its Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Journalism in Chinese Media at a presentation ceremony held at UTAR Petaling Jaya Campus on 4 April 2011.
With this new addition of Journalism in Chinese Media programme, which will be offered in coming May intake, UTAR now has 101 approved programmes from the MoHE, comprising 11 PhD, 20 Master's, 60 full-time and six part-time Bachelors, and four Foundation programmes.
UTAR started with only eight Bachelor's programmes in 2002 offered by three faculties in a single campus and today these 101 programmes are offered by nine faculties and the Institute of Chinese Studies in four campuses.
The number of students grows from the initial 411 in 2002 to more than 19,000 today. The university has produced more than 22,000 graduates and 97 percent of them were employed within six months after completing their programmes.
"In deciding to launch a new programme, we conduct market surveys to ensure our graduates are absorbed into employment market to continue our trend of 97 percent of our graduates being employed six months after their final exam," said UTAR President Ir. Professor Dato' Dr Chuah Hean Teik.
Professor Chuah added that UTAR had decided to offer the Journalism in Chinese Media programme in view of the growing number of users of Chinese language, the mushrooming of Chinese media in the country and also the emergence of China as a global economic power.
"While it is trivial for an institution to receive approval letters, what is not trivial is that Chinese has been approved as a medium of instruction," said Deputy Minister of Higher Education Dato' Dr. Hou Kok Chung when commenting on the approval of UTAR Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Journalism in Chinese Media to be conducted in two languages: English and Mandarin.
"For the Master of Arts (Chinese Studies) programme [currently conducted in UTAR], it was further approved that its thesis could be written in any of the three languages - English, Bahasa Malaysia or Chinese," continued Dato' Hou, adding that the Ministry of Higher Education had taken on the liberal stand on use of medium of instruction in view of achieving greater academic excellence.
The university anticipated that there are ample employment opportunities for graduates of Chinese Media Journalism in Malaysia . In addition, these graduates could also work in China , Taiwan , Hong Kong , Singapore and other countries with growing Chinese readership.
Also present at the ceremony was the university's Dean of Faculty of Creative Industries, Assistant Professor Dr . Carmen Nge Siew Mun.
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