MHB inks an MoU with UTHM as part of an effort to create positive difference to the lives of communities

A signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Berhad (MHB) and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) took place on 19 June 2022, Sunday at Sultan Ibrahim Hall, UTHM Main Campus. The MoU was held in conjunction with the Official Ceremony of Empowering Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and UTHM-Industry Strategic Partnership.

Signing the MoU were Encik Badrol-Izam bin Baharom, Senior General Manager, Human Resource of MHB and Professor Datuk Ts. Dr. Wahid bin Razzaly, Vice-Chancellor of UTHM, witnessed by Datuk Seri Dr. Noraini Ahmad, Minister of Higher Education.

With the signing of this MoU, MHB and UTHM will begin strategic partnership to collaborate on Work-Based Learning (WBL) programme which provides undergraduates with hands-on industrial training and learning experience for a year at MMHE Centre of Excellence (CoE).

In the pipeline, MHB has also agreed with other universities to collaborate on a number of initiatives. This is in line with promoting MHB CoE’s mission to provide comprehensive industrial trainings dedicated across the oil & gas and marine industries.

MHB puts top priority in contributing to the society where we operate and plays a role in supporting education sector towards nation-building. Aside from that, MHB also aims to produce highly competent work-ready graduates and at the same time identifies graduates with well-developed technical and people skills while providing employment opportunities to meet the needs of industry.

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