Even before the pandemic, students in low-income families were already facing inequality in resources. When COVID came, those disparities were laid bare from the very first lockdown, revealing just how serious they are.
Too many students had no connectivity, and yet we live in the 21st century; technology is a basic right. Management and Science University (MSU) presents four hundred and fifty-six of its own with a device each from Keluarga Malaysia’s PerantiSiswa.
An initiative by the Ministry of Communication and Multimedia via the Ministry of Higher Education, PerantiSiswa aims to help students catch up from the pandemic by decreasing the digital divide. Many in society have neither access to twenty-first-century learning nor its required technology and the internet, and levelling the playing field is core to the foundation of MSU.
Officiating the presentation ceremony at the Performing Arts Theatre (PAT) was MSU president Professor Tan Sri Dato’ Wira Dr Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid.
The 456 from the B40 economic group of Keluarga Malaysia included 100 recipients from the Faculty of Business Management and Professional Studies (FBMP), 84 from the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering (FISE), 74 from MSU Learning Centre (MLC), 71 from the School of Education and Social Sciences (SESS), 57 from the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (FHLS), 32 from the School of Hospitality and Creative Arts (SHCA), 18 from the International Medical School (IMS), 19 from the School of Pharmacy (SPH), and 1 from the Graduate School of Management (GSM).
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Even before the pandemic, students in low-income families were already facing inequality in resources. When COVID came, those disparities were laid bare from the very first lockdown, revealing just how serious they are.
Too many students had no connectivity, and yet we live in the 21st century; technology is a basic right. Management and Science University (MSU) presents four hundred and fifty-six of its own with a device each from Keluarga Malaysia’s PerantiSiswa.
An initiative by the Ministry of Communication and Multimedia via the Ministry of Higher Education, PerantiSiswa aims to help students catch up from the pandemic by decreasing the digital divide. Many in society have neither access to twenty-first-century learning nor its required technology and the internet, and levelling the playing field is core to the foundation of MSU.
Officiating the presentation ceremony at the Performing Arts Theatre (PAT) was MSU president Professor Tan Sri Dato’ Wira Dr Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid.
The 456 from the B40 economic group of Keluarga Malaysia included 100 recipients from the Faculty of Business Management and Professional Studies (FBMP), 84 from the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering (FISE), 74 from MSU Learning Centre (MLC), 71 from the School of Education and Social Sciences (SESS), 57 from the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences (FHLS), 32 from the School of Hospitality and Creative Arts (SHCA), 18 from the International Medical School (IMS), 19 from the School of Pharmacy (SPH), and 1 from the Graduate School of Management (GSM).