DRB-Hicom allocates RM52 million for 3,000 student scholarships for automotive university

KUALA LUMPUR: DRB-Hicom Bhd has allocated RM52 million in scholarship for 3,000 students of DRB HICOM University of Automotive Malaysia (DHU) for the next three years, the university’s Vice-Chancellor Prof Dato’ Seri Dr Omar Osman said yesterday.

The massive amount of scholarships was reflective of DRBHicom’s continued commitment to the university since its inception by building the sprawling campus and churning out students keen to excel in the automotive industry.

“That is a very big (allocation), which means they are willing to forego the income from that portion of RM52 million for the next 3 years (and) shows that the DRB Group is committed to nationbuilding and getting the right talent to come to the university,” he said in an interview yesterday.

“The scholarships would spur greater interest among youths to be involved in the automotive sector,” he said in a statement containing excerpts of the interview.

Dr Omar said the notion among many students that engineering sciences was difficult to pursue needs to be discarded.

This was in view of the fact that the nation needed more youths to be interested in science and engineering and come to universities like DHU.

“We are here to nurture you, we are here to actually give you the best education and skills that we can give and do not be afraid of the so-called difficult subjects. We got to work through this educative process together so as to build a nation that is developed for the future.

“The DRB- Hicom group has already allowed us to give away partial scholarships for each degree student amounting to RM15,000, which means students don’t have to pay RM15,000 more than what is necessary,” he added. — Bernama