Posts Tagged ‘jamboree’
JOHOR BAHRU 14 Jun- Permintaan tinggi terhadap kerjaya arkitek dan tawaran yang baik menyebabkan ramai lulusan jurusan berkenaan tidak melepaskan peluang bekerja di luar negara.
Tindakan itu sedikit sebanyak menjadi punca kekurangan jumlah tenaga kerja profesional tersebut di negara ini dan jumlahnya tidak selari dengan keperluan negara yang sedang pesat membangun.
Menurut Timbalan Presiden Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia, Ar. Saifuddin Ahmad, negara ini melahirkan jumlah lulusan jurusan senibina yang berkualiti sehingga mendapat permintaan tinggi untuk mengisi pasaran kerja di luar negara.
“Kebanyakan lepasan universiti tempatan mencari peluang kerja di Singapura dan Timur Tengah. Malah, siswazah yang menuntut di luar negara juga cenderung untuk bekerja di sana berbanding balik ke Malaysia.
“Kekurangan tersebut turut ditambah dengan bilangan mereka yang lulus peperiksaan senibina tahap ketiga juga adalah kecil,” katanya selepas merasmikan Bengkel Senibina ke-23 anjuran penuntut senibina Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) di sini, semalam.
Turut hadir, Dekan Fakulti Alam Bina UTM, Prof. Madya Dr. Ahmad Nazri Muhamad Ludin.
Program yang bermula kelmarin dan berakhir Jumaat ini mengetengahkan tema Terang 2011 menyaksikan penglibatan seramai 400 peserta daripada 21 institusi pengajian tinggi seluruh negara.
Saifuddin berkata, universiti tempatan juga melahirkan jumlah lulusan senibina yang sedikit jika dibandingkan dengan negara maju lain.
“Tetapi harus diingat bahawa biarpun jumlahnya sedikit, mereka adalah golongan yang berkualiti, cuma masalahnya adalah jumlahnya tidak mencukupi apatah lagi dengan pembangunan pesat yang dikecapi negara pada masa ini,” katanya.
Sementara itu, Ahmad Nazri berkata, setiap tahun UTM hanya melahirkan kira-kira 80 siswazah senibina.
Menurutnya, jumlah tersebut dikurangkan daripada 100 kepada 80 orang bagi menjaga kualiti graduan supaya sesuai dengan pasaran kerja dan selaras dengan kehendak negara dalam melahirkan modal insan kelas pertama.
Yes, it’s finally ours. After UKM’s Archustic a week ago, the 23rd Architectural Workshop in 2011 will be hosted by UTM Skudai in collaboration with UTM KL. Venue will likely be in Skudai as UTM KL will still be undergoing construction works by June next year. Theme is still open for suggestions.
There are 27 architectural schools in Malaysia to date, and we plan to invite them all. Not only that, we’re thinking of inviting architectural schools from neighbouring countries as well, including Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Brunei.
Updates will be coming soon!
The official website is up! The excitement is now building up exponentially. Grab the briefs for the theme, performance and competition there and lets start cooking. Pay them a visit at http://www.archustic.co.cc now!
Discuss this in the forums here.
Penang, June 17th: A group of architecture students from the Science and Technology College (KST), UTM City Campus managed to top the Malaysian Architecture Jamboree design competition for the second time in a row in two years at the 20th Architecture jamboree, TRANXXIT University Sains Malayia (USM), Penang.
Aizat Amir Hasrat, Vincent Lai and Wong Zhi Shen, second year students won the first place for the design category while Atta Indrawani, a third year student won the first place for the multimedia category. The competition is an annual event in occasition with the ‘Alam Bina Week’ held at USM on June 12th. More than 20 delegations from IPTA’s and Polytechnics took part in the jamboree. KST were represented by 20 students led Iziq Eafifi along with their Mentor Lecturer, Norhayuri Abdul Hadi and Kamarul Ariffin A. Kadir. This is the second success in the same categories. In 2007, KST UTM won the same categories at the International Islamic University of Malaysia.
Team KST UTM was also announced the runner-up for best performance and best male actor in the Intervarsity Culture Night during the event.

