Milking Knowledge Through Educational Tours

Touring the milk factory.

9th October 2006 60 students of SEGi College Petaling Jaya recently went on an educational tour of the Malaysian Milk Sdn Bhd as part of their Business Statistic module. The trip was part of their assessment, whereby 20% will be contributed to their overall marks for the subject mentioned. “Students on the trip may not have seen the relevance of this related to the subject matter. However the College had worked with the company in ensuring relevant data are provided later for students to compute and provide a critical analysis as part of their report submission,” said Linda Tan, Head of Operations, SEGi College Petaling Jaya.

Tan first began this educational tour project in August when she took a group of 40 students to OCE Malaysia Sdn Bhd to cover areas of Branding, Internal Analysis and Technology Based Systems. The group comprised of Marketing, Business and Information Technology students.

“It was a fruitful trip as both lecturers and students who attended the trip had benefited in understanding the strategies applied by a reputable company such as OCE. Similarly the students were given assignments for which marks were contributed as part of their overall assessment in the relevant subjects they were studying,” said Tan.

Tan further added, “Trips are just a part of our planning in moving towards industry driven. The various modes of assessing the students would also be planning Management Games, Industry Driven Speakers, Market Survey to equip our students in better understanding the subjects taught. Exposing them to such assessments helps build their learning environment to one that is away from boredom and traditional assessment methods, which they already know from their school days.”

SEGi College Petaling Jaya has a different way of educating students whereby every semester, there will be a subject that will be decided for students to carry out the assessment. “Lecturers are also briefed on this and are part and parcel of this excursion. Through their academic background, they would have a better insight on how the assessment should be designed like bringing the experience gained and blending it with the academic theories which are relevant,” added Tan.

The educational tours are in line with the College's vision mission of Passion Guided, Industry Driven. The redesign of SEGi's vision mission is to cater to the pressure of a global economy that demands knowledge-workers.

Other than instilling industry relevance in to the learning experience, SEGi also carefully selects its partner universities to ensure that they share the same principles and ideas of education and training.

The Colleges' consortium of global partners are from the UK , Australia and the USA . SEGi partners with the University of Sheffield , University of Abertay Dundee , University of Sunderland , University of Bolton , University of Greenwich , University of Southern Queensland , University of the Sunshine Coast , the University of Newcastle , James Cook University , and Upper Iowa University .

SEGi College offers quality Business and Accountancy degree programmes through twinning arrangements. The partner universities are University of Abertay Dundee (UAD) – BA (Hons) Accountancy and Finance, BA (Hons) Marketing, BA (Hons) Human Resource Management; and University of Southern Queensland (USQ) – Bachelor of Business (Administrative Management), Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management) and Bachelor of Business (Marketing), Students can also find out more about the 3+0 BSc (Hons) Computing programme offered in partnership with University of Bolton (UOB), UK.

SEGi diploma programmes are in business administration, management, accounting, marketing, human resource management, project management, information technology, computer studies, computer systems (operations management), civil engineering, multimedia design, advertising design, mass communication, creative multimedia, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, video and animation, photography, performing art (theatre), creative multimedia, mass communication, music, early childhood, Montessori pedagogy, nursing and hotel management. All diplomas can be articulated into bachelor programme with partner universities. Successful diploma candidates can pursue the final part of the degree with their diplomas.

SEGi programmes are approved by the Ministry of Higher Education.