ABM to offer entrepreneurship module through collaboration with UUM
The Malaysian Building Academy (ABM) plans to work with Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) to prepare an entrepreneurship training module to be offered to trainees at the academy’s branch here.
Deputy Public Works Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan said the move is aimed at ensuring that the trainees not only have skills in the technical field or the construction sector, but also entrepreneurial knowledge that will enable them to run their businesses after completing the training.
“I have met with the UUM vice-chancellor and during the meeting, I suggested that a study be conducted immediately on how to improve relations like providing input on the entrepreneurship module for trainees at ABM here.
“This is to help them (trainees) so that when they leave (ABM), besides securing a job, they can also open their own business,” he told a press conference after a working visit to the Northern Region ABM here yesterday.
Also present were the Malaysian Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) chief executive Datuk Mohd Zaid Zakaria and ABM North Region chief executive officer Mohd Nazri Zakaria.
Ahmad said he hoped that the move could not only be implemented at the Northern Region ABM, but also at the other five ABM branches in the country.
“Apart from collaborating with nearby universities, the entrepreneurial input can be applied in the training module by having former trainees who have opened companies to share their experience and knowledge with existing trainees,” he said.
Meanwhile, he said more than 80,000 skilled workers had been trained through the training and assessment programme conducted by ABM and CIDB Technologies between 2018 and last year, involving an allocation of RM232 million.
On another development, Ahmad advised the public to seek the services of contractors who are licensed by CIDB to build or renovate their houses.
This is to prevent them from becoming victims of fraud or the risk of the project not being completed, resulting in the owners suffering losses, he added.