WAWASAN Open University (WOU), which is taking up four booths at the Star Education Fair 2009, is offering some 10 scholarships for those intending to pursue their doctorate.
Its vice chancellor and chief executive officer Tan Sri Prof Emeritus Gajaraj Dhanarajan (pic) said the programme would be supervised by academicians from several of its schools.The schools are Business and Administration, Science and Technology, Foundation and Liberal Studies, and Education, Language and Communications.
Prof Gajaraj said the WOU would also be offering several new sub-degree, degree and postgraduate programmes for working professionals soon.
The programmes are graduate diplomas in Supply Chain Mana-gement, Business Accounting, Sales and Marketing, Corporate Gover-nance, Database Management and Electronics.
“Besides these sub-degree programmes, we will also offer a Mas-ters of Science in Financial Infor-mation Systems soon,” he said.
Prof Gajaraj said WOU was also developing the content for a Bachelor of Business in company secretaryship.
“Most company secretaries study for a professional certificate which is more skill-based,” he added.
According to him, WOU’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) was the biggest in the country in terms of enrolment.
“We currently have 323 students pursuing the Commonwealth Exe-cutive Masters programme and by the end of the year, we should have about 450 students — this is possibly the highest number of MBA students in the country,” he said.
To find out more about WOU’s programmes, visit the fair at the Penang International Sports Arena in Relau.
Visitors to WOU’s booths will be given goodie bags.
Those wishing to sign up at the fair should bring along RM50 (registration fees) and photocopies of their MyKad and related certificates.
A total of 112 exhibitors will take up 222 booths at the two-day fair.
Admission is free.
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