Scholarships pour in for UMK

DESPITE been the newest local public university, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) has within eight months secured several scholarship funds for its students.
Maybank Bhd recently became the latest corporate sponsor to give scholarships, laptops and allowances for training courses to three students of UMK, which is at a temporary campus in Taman Bendahara, Pengkalan Chepa in Kelantan.
The three are Chan Khar Hor, 22, from the Entrepreneurship and Business Faculty, Yap Ee Ting, 21, and Nur Fa’iqa Zamri, 20, both from the Agro-Industry and Natural Resources Faculty.
Maybank vice-president of corporate human resource and talent management head Raja Ahhmad Hidzir Raja Muhamad handed over the inaugural scholarships at the Sutera Inn Hotel in Kota Baru.
Present at the ceremony were Maybank vice president (regional retail financial services head) Yusoff Ghani and Maybank assistant vice president (management associates head and scholarship resourcing, talent manager corporate) Hishamuddin Salleh.

Financial support: (From left) Prof Dr Zainai, Chan, Hishamuddin, Yap, Raja Ahamad Hidzir, Nur Fa'iqa and Yusoff Ghani posing at the cheque presentation ceremony.

Besides scholarships, UMK vice-chancellor Prof Dr Zainai Mohamad said grants would also be provided to UMK academicians who are keen to pursue higher studies locally or overseas.He also said earthworks to build UMK’s main campus in Bachok and a satellite one in Jeli would start this year.

UMK has targeted to its own main campus by 2010, Dr Zainai said.