Faculty
of Entrepreneurship and Business (FEB), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) has
worked swiftly to reframe its way to continue success in the field despite
confronting the Covid-19 pandemic. Being the pioneer faculty of UMK incepted in
2007, FEB remains competitive in the
education field and adopts today's new technologies. FEB have contingency
online learning tools at hand that linger its foundation's legacy, which is to produce excellent
entrepreneurship and business education. One of the FEB signature
activity, "The Entrepreneurship Week", was introduced a decade ago
and held every year. Students sell various types of foods and goods to showcase
their entrepreneurial talent. Unfortunately, due to the movement control order
amid the Covid-19 pandemic by the Government of Malaysia, this activity
organised using complete online facilities. However, students' participation is
encouraging, and the activity's success based on the sales volumes was
tremendous. FBE is enthusiastic and
confident in student enterprises getting engaged well with the online business
methodology; in coming years, the online and conventional business approach
will activate simultaneously.
FEB
has 3,484 student enrolment as of June 2021, and more than 3,500 students have graduated from the first
graduation ceremony held in 2011. FBE employs
104 academics at various positions such as professors, associate professors,
and lectures in scholarly composition—meanwhile, 19 staffs assist in the
administrative tasks. Thus, the best blend of teams (academic and non-academic)
in FEB helps achieve vision and mission, primarily to become the focal driver
in evolving entrepreneurship. Besides, FEB constantly aims to inculcate
entrepreneurial spirit among society within and outside UMK to produce an
entrepreneurship-oriented community that can contribute to the nation's
well-being and produce entrepreneur graduates with good values, knowledgeable and skilled.
Captivatingly,
290 graduate students of FBE managed to establish and operate their own
companies. Moreover, last year's records showed that 91.4 per cent of graduates
succeeded to get a job after their graduation. Thus, FBE reached to exceed the
national benchmark of 10 per cent for graduate entrepreneurship employability.
The accomplishment made by FEB uplift the image of UMK in the eyes of stakeholders.
Therefore, FEB is the perfect place to learn about entrepreneurship. Students can gather experience and wisdom from
the business community while combining their academic knowledge with field
practitioners to solve real-world hitches. Accordingly, FEB recognised
as the champion in entrepreneurship education within the university and in the
country. The `2U2I' programme that requires students to undergo two years of
intensive courses at the university and two years of attachment in the selected
industry is unique and pioneered by FBE, UMK.
The `2U2I' education model of
FBE, UMK become a guide to other universities intended to offer blended
university-industry entrepreneurship education.
The Mini SEED program of FBE won the 'Student-Driven Sustainability Project of
the Year Award' category at the Asia-Pacific Triple E-Awards on
Entrepreneurship and Engagement Excellence in Higher Education (ACEEU) on 10
January 2020 in India. It speaks well on another FEB's dynamic entrepreneurial
model.
The
postgraduate wing of FEB, named the Malaysian Graduation School of
Entrepreneurship and Business in 2012, offers professional courses, including
Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Doctor of Business Administration
(DBA). In addition, FBE attracts students
from across the globe to join the faculty's unique research community and
pursue any selected programme such as Doctor of Philosophy, Master in
Entrepreneurship, and Master in Islamic Finance. FEB has listed several
strategic moves under its five-year plan to strengthen academic contents and
delivery, enhance human resources potentials, and increase the international,
industry and community networks. Research collaborations established with prestigious
local and international universities.
Additionally, FBE actively engaged with the industry through research and innovation. Participations
in research and innovation and teaching and learning resulted in winning many
reputable awards.
The recent establishment
of Angkasa-University
Research Academy (AURA) marks another achievement of FBE. Besides AAPBS,
FBE holds membership with ABEST21, AACSB, The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CLIT)
and Association of Chartered
Certified Accountants (ACCA). In addition, a wide range of
industrial collaborations that FEB actively engaged in
teaching an entrepreneurial spirit that can contribute to the nation's
well-being. FBE, UMK welcome
members of AAPBS to form a partnership in championing academic excellence
endeavour to better humankind. "Entrepreneurship is Our Thrust"
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