Badminton Tournament organized by the Diploma in Business & Diploma in Marketing Students of the School of Business and Accounting (SOBA)

On Saturday 19^th October 2013, the DBA and DIM students of the subject Principles of Marketing conducted a badminton tournament at a private badminton hall at Lot 9 Jalan 13/6, Section 13, 46200 Petaling Jaya under the supervision of their class lecturer Ms Tamil Selvi. This task was part of their class assignment which contributed to 50% of the total assessment. The tournament was opened to students and staff of Stamford College Petaling Jaya and also to some of their invited guests. Amongst the staff who had participated were the College’s Chief Financial Officer Mr Leong Kam Soon and his executive Mr Yogeswaran, the Coordinator of the UEL business programmes at SOBA Ms Haema Sukumaran, the administrator/lecturer at the Accounting Department of SOBA Ms Clovie Poh, the LIC of the A-Levels programme Mr Eng Fwu Ji and his lecturers Dr Cheng and Ms Khong. The School of Computing & IT was represented by Mr Xavier and Billings, Admission & Records by Mr Alex Lee.

As with other badminton tournaments, the participants competed in the singles and doubles categories for both men and women, and in the mixed doubles. Medals were awarded to the champion, the first runner-up and the second runner-up for each category by Mr Robert Cheong, the Head of SOBA.

Overall, the organising committee did a very good job in running a successful tournament and this experience gave confidence to the committee members in taking on bigger projects in future.

Civic Responsibilities of Students in Tertiary Education

Stamford College welcomed a very special guest, Datin Panduka Marina Mahathir on the 26^th September 2013 to give a talk on Civic Responsibilities of Students in Tertiary Education.  The event was attended by Stamford College students from both Petaling Jaya and Melaka campuses. Datin Marina highlighted the things that the younger generation need to do more, such as being aware of the latest news that impact our society, familiarizing ourselves with our national constitution, upgrading ourselves through acquiring new skills, getting a tertiary education and many more. She shared several inspirational stories of how others have done their part in creating a change in the lives of others, namely a young entrepreneur providing English lessons in Bangladesh to the poor children living in the slums who have limited access to proper education under the organisation named Jaago. Datin Marina also touched on a local non-government organisation, StArt which provides various artistic programmes for underprivileged children with the aim of rebuilding their self-esteem. She encouraged the young audience to be more proactive in initiating change in their environment and not be afraid to practise their rights as Malaysians.