Eduspec to promote STEM education in China

PETALING JAYA: Eduspec Holdings Bhd is partnering with PKU-HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institution (PKU) to promote the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy (CMRA) certified Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in China for three years.

Eduspec told Bursa Malaysia that it had entered into an educational cooperation agreement with PKU for the collaboration.

PKU is a research collaboration in the business of hi-tech base for incubation, venture capital, innovative technology management system and training of hi-tech professionals in the Shenzhen-Hong Kong bay area. It was established in August 1999 as a joint venture of the Shenzhen Municipal Government, Peking University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Eduspec said the agreement is expected to enable the group to distribute its STEM with Computer Science and STEM with Robotics Programme in connection with an earlier agreement signed with iCarnegie Global Learning / Robomatter Inc.

Eduspec will provide PKU with authorisation documents and endorse PKU as the teachers training, student examination and certification centre for the CMRA certified STEM Programmes in China. PKU will assist Eduspec in marketing the programmes in China, programmes localisation, printing and publishing in Chinese as well as managing the assessment team and teachers training in China.