Residential
colleges have many advantages. They help students to make
a smooth transition from school to university. Students are
encouraged to take responsibility for their studies and organise
their time effectively. The house system ensures careful monitoring
of students' progress and effective pastoral care.
Kolej Yayasan UEM students are form a wide range of backgrounds
and learn to live together as a close community. There are
regular opportunities to see parents and friends during term
time. The tranquil setting of the College allows students
to work hard with few distractions.
Every student becomes a member of a "house", which is led
by a housemaster and a housemistress, who take overall responsibility
for that student. He or she will keep a watchful eye on the
student's work, give advice when there are personal problems,
help in the process of university placement and liaise with
parents.
There are approximately 100 students in a house. Each student
also meets with his house tutor once a week for advice on
academic matters or any problem that the student may encounter.
Housemasters, housemistresses and house tutors meet regularly.
Students dine in a large dining hall on campus. There is also
a cafeteria, where they may buy additional snacks during the
day or in the evening. Students can relax in the cafeteria
and chat with friends and staff.
Students live four to a chalet, and each has a private bedroom.
Each chalet has an air-conditioned common area with Internet
connection
At KYUEM, our community is not isolated - but self contained.
There are postal telephone and email facilities and regular
trips to Kuala Lumpur and other places; but we take pride
in what is available here. We aim to equip or students for
life not only as undergraduates, but as independent members
of interdependent communities: small and large.
Our
students will go on to success in challenging courses at university
widely acknowledged as first-class. They will also go on to
new communities with new responsibilities, new friends and
colleagues, and unfamiliar surroundings. Our aim is to prepare
our students for this so that undergraduate life ca be as
fully rewarding as possible, in every sense.
Within the clear and supportive framework of the KYUEM code
of conduct, students are encouraged and guided to learn about
independence, self-discipline, social and personal responsibilities
and the road to academic success. They have the opportunity
to develop complex and important skills as members of a range
of groupings: the chalet, the house, the team, the subject-group
and many more. Small units forming parts of larger units provide
opportunities that non-residential institutions or less well-equipped
boarding institutions simply cannot match.
