Recently, three Diploma in Hotel Management (DHM) students, Lee Han Ying, Queeny Cheong and Sia Lee Chin from Sunway University visited France with their lecturer cum head chef Patrick Siau, who was the Team Captain of Team Malaysia representing Malaysia in the World Pastry Cup 2011 competition in Lyon in January 2011.
Team Malaysia was hosted by the Embassy of Malaysia and the Malaysian Association in…
Head Chef (and lecturer) Patrick Siau from Sunway University College was in the team that clinched 2nd Runner-Up at the Asian Pastry Cup 2010 held in conjunction with the Food & Hotel Asia Culinary Challenge (FHA CC) 2010 in Singapore recently.
The biannual Asian Pastry Cup 2010 is also the official competition in which the best four teams are selected to compete at the World Pastry Cup. The next one will be in Lyon, France in January next year.
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Sunway University College lecturer and its head of the School of Health and Natural Sciences, Associate Professor Dr. Teoh Hsien-Jin received the Outstanding Child Psychologist Award 2009/2010 in the Association of Professional Early Childhood Providers Malaysia (APECP) Excellent Child Contributor Awards 2009/2010 recently.
The award recognises individuals who have made significant contributions towards improving quality and providing excellent services in early childhood education, care and development in Malaysia. The APECP Excellent Child Contributor Awards also accorded awards to businesses, non-profit…
Five Sunway academic staff are keeping on par with their colleagues in the United Kingdom.
They received their Certificate in Academic Practice (CAP) Module One, which makes them eligible to become Associate Fellows of Higher Education Academy in the U.K.
According to Dr Tony Luxon, who presented the certificates, it was an impressive achievement considering that the staff achieved this while teaching and carrying out research, simultaneously.
In his capacity as Continuing Professional Development Advisor, Dr. Luxon and his colleagues from the Centre Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) of Lancaster University recently conducted the workshops at Sunway….
Dr Anindita Dasgupta, a senior lecturer with the American Degree Transfer Programme at Sunway University College has been awarded the Asian Scholarship Fund (ASF) Collaborative Works Grant funded by the Ford Foundation and administered by the Asian Scholarship Foundation in Thailand.
Dr Anindita who teaches Pacific Asian Studies, will use the grant valued at USD16,000 to produce a landmark
edited book titled ‘Resurgent Democracies: Experiences of South and Southeast Asia’. Seven scholars from around the world including Dr Maung Zarni from…
Sunway University College’s School of Computer Technology (SCT) lecturer, Lyon Laxman has a knack for lifelong learning and the inner drive for bigger tasks that even the Vice-Chancellor of Sunway University College, Professor Jarlath Ronayne is personally impressed with.
Lyon was awarded the certificate of “Exceptional MSc Project” by Rinicom Ltd, a privately owned technology company in the United Kingdom, for his outstanding M.Sc project paper.
Besides winning the prestigious industry award from Rinicom Ltd, Lyon also…
With more and more companies jumping on the recycling bandwagon in their efforts to project an environmentally conscious image, it has now become essential for each of us to understand that there is more to preserving the environment than recycling.
“People should reduce their use of plastic bags” said Dr Uthaya. It’s sad that we have reached a point where salespeople feel they have not served us if they have not given us a plastic bag. “It’s a cultural norm now…
After winning two pre-qualifying rounds of the MSC Business Plan Competition late last year, students and staff made Sunway University College proud by winning the First Runner-up Award in the Business Idea category and the Merit Award in the Business Plan category respectively. This took place at the finals of the national level MSC-IHL Business Plan Competition in Putrajaya recently.
The students, Dexter Wong Kum Theen, Susmitha Burra and Lim Tou Ee are in the final year of the Bachelor…
