NIIT College, Regal sign MOU for city campus
KUCHING: NIIT College yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Temasek Cartel Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of renowned SGX-listed property developer Regal International Group Ltd (Regal).
The signing of the MOU was to establish a partneship between NIIT College and Regal for the relocation of the former’s campus to Regal’s upcoming development known as Tropics City located between Jalan Tun Jugah and Jalan Song here.
NIIT College’s chief executive officer (CEO) Anderson Voon said the signing marked a new milestone for the education services provider’s progression to a leading higher education provider in the region and to university status.
“NIIT College will be relocated to Tropics City with facility spaces catering for more than 2,000 students. The city campus with modern facilities and lifestyle will be surrounded by commercial malls,
NIIT College will be relocated to Tropics City with facility spaces catering for more than 2,000 students.
accommodations, food courts, recreation places and lots of parking bays.
“This relocation to the modern city campus will take place in about three years’s time in 2019,” he said before the signing at NIIT College’s office located at Jalan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce here yesterday.
NIIT College’s main mission is to provide conducive teaching and learning environment to enhance learning experience of domestic and international students. The college has a licence to recruit international students.
“We are grateful to Regal for giving us the opportunity to expand our campus. As the number of students increases, the immediate problems we have to solve is our classrooms, resource centre, student accommodations and the limited parking spaces nearby NIIT College.
“We are planning aggressively to recruit more students from 2017 onwards especially students from countries such as China, Indonesia, Brunei and other Southeast Asia countries,” he said.
NIIT College’s present campus for teaching and learning can cater up to 900 students while the college has 300 students for this year.
He said the college is planning to increase the number of students steadily to 400 in 2017 and 500 in 2018 as the number of programmes offered by the college increases.
When asked on the floor space for NIIT College’s city campus at Tropics City, Voon shared that the new campus will take up 30,000 square feet of floor space with more facilities such as a library and classrooms available.
Meanwhile, Regal’s executive director Nicholas Wong said Regal Group’s Tropics City is a project that spreads across a 25-acres land, which is about the size of Kenyalang Park.
He believed Tropics City is set to become an all-inclusive living paradise featuring everything from residential apartment and soho to business, shopping, dining, recreational, education as well as arts and crafts. Moreover, Wong emphasised that the mix-development Tropics City project was structured towards enriching the lifestyle of people.
“In order to cater to the needs and demands of modern and urbanised living, we have to go back to the basic namely food, health, education and culture and arts,” he said in defining the concept of enrichment in the design of the entire project.
Tropics City, he continued, is a project passionately orchestrated to enrich lifestyle by integrating the concept of Live-Safe-WorkPlay with absolute convenience.
Located in a prime location, Tropics City features 1,500 residential units (apartment and soho) with more than 1,000 units of carpark and about 500,000 sq ft of commercial area including a mall and offices.
There will be over 30 facilities available including 50,000 sq ft gym and an aqua gym; an enrichment educational hub offering various programmes, classes and activities for learners of all ages; sports and health hub with swimming pool, spa and sauna, multi sports area, salons and beauty centres; a level for expo, convention and exhibition; Tropics Plus featuring plastic surgery, bone and spine specialists and aesthetic medical clinic; standard retail outlets and many more.
“The apartments range from 600 sq ft to 1,400 sq ft and come with the option of either one, two or three bedrooms. The best part is the maintenance fee is the lowest in the market at 12 cents per sq ft,” Wong said.
“More than 80 per cent of the first three blocks have been sold while the fourth block will be launched soon. The price starts from RM350,000 and above,” he added.
“More and more people are choosing to own an apartment than landed property now because our lifestyle have changed. We want security and assurance of basic maintenance mainly,” he further said.
Tropics City aims to build the most liveable place with a sustainable environment to become a signature address in Kuching.
For more enquiries, please contact Termasek Cartel at 082-288848 for more info or visit the website at www.regalgroup.com.my.
Anderson Voon, NIIT College CEO