Swinburne Sarawak campus offers new bursary schemes
KUCHING: Top performing SPM, STPM and UEC graduates who enrol with Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus can get as much as 80 per cent off their tuition fees.
The new range of bursary schemes will benefit about 380 students who enrolled for the university’s foundation, bachelor’s degree and postgraduate programmes.
“To further promote higher education, we’ve introduced five additional bursary schemes for 2016,” said Swinburne Sarawak deputy vice- chancellor and chief executive officer Professor Janet Gregory.
The schemes offer a waiver of up to 30 per cent off the first year tuition fee.
“While the qualification for a bursary is mostly based on academic achievements, we recognise that some students excel in extra- curricular activities. We now have allocations for this category of students,” she said.
Janet said the bursary schemes were in addition to the scholarships and industry awards offered by Yayasan Sarawak and private organisations already made available at the university.
“With the variety of financial aid available, tertiary education at Swinburne Sarawak is undoubtedly very attractive,” she said.
Apart from the hands- on focus of its curriculum and exposure to industry, the ability of Swinburne Sarawak graduates to communicate confidently in English was another reason they were sought by employers.
“As an Australian university, English is the medium of instruction. We place strong emphasis on a high standard of the language because it is the lingua franca of the world.
“It is this combination - the skills, knowledge and good English - that has contributed to the employability of our graduates,” she said.
Based on the university’s statistics in the last few years, more than 90 per cent of its graduates were absorbed by industries within six months of graduating.
Since the business, computing, design, engineering and science courses at Swinburne Sarawak are identical to those of its home campus in Melbourne, its graduates are awarded the same internationally recognised parchment.
Swinburne Sarawak currently has about 4,000 students who may transfer to complete their studies at the Melbourne campus or conclude a semester there through an exchange programme.