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Gamuda Berhad (29579-T) • Annual Report 2012
The annual Gamuda Scholarship Award grants deserving
Malaysian students the opportunity to pursue their tertiary
education in established foreign and local universities
Apart from skills training, GPos also provides
training and consultancy in environmental
management and occupational safety and health
for companies involved in manufacturing and
production.
since its inception, GPos has today trained more
than 30,000 skilled plant operators and heavy
machinery operators.
synergising various competency courses offered by
GPos, CTC and TTA, Gamuda’s integrated human
capital advancement blueprint will serve the overall
manpower needs of the KVMRT project.
Gamuda Scholarship Award
A total of 303 eligible scholarship applications
were received this year. To ensure only individuals
who possess exceptional leadership abilities;
exhibit a constant desire to challenge the status
quo; achieved excellent academic results; and
have a strong passion to succeed in their chosen
fields of study are considered, a two-part candidate
selection process was employed by the scholarship
award committee.
The first part of the shortlisting procedure involved
an interactive workshop based on written, oral and
presentation finesse; followed by a one-on-one
interview session with a three-member panel of
external judges in the final round of selection.
A total of 18 outstanding and deserving students
received their scholarship awards this year and
joined the ranks of more than 270 Gamuda
scholars, who received financial assistance for
tertiary studies amounting to RM23.5 million since
1996 – inclusive of this year’s RM2.5 million worth
of scholarships.
The Gamuda annual scholarship award is part of
Gamuda’s integrated human capital development
strategy that underlies the Group’s long-term
commitment to create a pool of motivated and
highly-skilled Malaysians that will help spur the
country’s development into a first class nation by
the year 2020.
Besides covering tuition fees and living expenses,
the scholarship is a pathway for high-achievers to
forge a bright future through detailed career
development and guidance from the Gamuda
learning Centre – the training arm of Gamuda
Berhad – and underscores the Group’s continuous
efforts in nurturing the best minds to boost its
current and future development needs.