Kolej Yayasan UEM

Kolej Yayasan UEM (KYUEM) UEM Foundation College
Location
Lembah Beringin, Selangor Malaysia
Information
Type	Private boarding school
Motto	Knowledge Is The Road To Truth
Established	1998
Founder	Tan Sri Halim Saad
Headmaster	Peter Hodge
Deputy Headmaster	Azman Zainal Abidin
Staff	120 approx
Gender	Boys and girls
Age	16 to 20
Enrollment	480 approx
Houses	4
Colour(s)	White and blue
Publication	The Veritas
Former pupils	KYUEMians
Website	www.kyuem.edu.my

Kolej Yayasan UEM or KYUEM (formerly known as Kolej Matrikulasi Yayasan Saad) is a Malaysian private residential school situated in Lembah Beringin, Selangor, Malaysia. It is owned by Yayasan UEM, and is also part of the UEM Group. KYUEM offers the A-Level programme under the Cambridge International Examinations examination board.

Every year KYUEM students receive 'Best in the World for Subject' Awards.^[1] The majority of the students are top scorers in the country, sponsored by:

• the Malaysian government /JPA /Mara,
• PETRONAS,
• UEM,
• Sime Darby,
• Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia),
• Permodalan Nasional Berhad(PNB),
• Khazanah Nasional Berhad,
• Securities Commission (Suruhanjaya Sekuriti),
• Ministry of Education(KPM),
• Yayasan Tenaga Nasional,
• Yayasan Telekom Malaysia,
• Yayasan Peneraju,
• Jcorp,
• Maybank,
• Felda,
• Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB),
• Yayasan Tabung Haji,
• NCB Holdings,
• MMC-Gamuda,

and state's foundations such as

• Yayasan Terengganu
• Majlis Agama Islam Kelantan and
• Yayasan Sabah.

Planned by Tan Sri Halim Saad, Kolej Matrikulasi Yayasan Saad (as it was then known) is a residential college, modelled on British boarding schools. The teaching staff consists of Malaysians as well expatriate teachers from the United Kingdom. The college attempts to keep the ratio of 60% local teachers and 40% expatriates.

A pastoral care system is utilised, with groups of students being put under the care of teachers. These teachers (referred to as tutors) may or may not teach their tutor group, and function to provide social rather than academic assistance.

Overview

KYUEM boards approximately 380 students mostly between the ages of 16 to 20.

The college is headed by the headmaster who is appointed by the Board of Governors and Board of Trustees. It has four houses - Garnet, Topaz, Diamond and Sapphire. Each is headed by a houseparent , selected from the members of the teaching staff.

All of the school's graduates go on to universities, about ten each year to Oxford or Cambridge and majority to universities such as University College London, Imperial College London, University of Warwick, London School of Economics, King's College London, University of Edinburgh and The University of Manchester. Some of the graduates study at universities in the United States such as MIT, UC Berkeley, Princeton University and Harvard University.

Curriculum

In addition to their core three or four A-Level subjects, students also may read an extra one or two AS Level subjects of their choice and other compulsory Key Skills subjects which include ICT Skills, and the compulsory Islamic/Moral and Malaysian Studies. It is compulsory for students to take IELTS as it is essential for admission into British Universities.

Students normally take three A-Levels, although it is possible to take four. The College has three academic faculties, Arts, Science and Mathematics.

KYUEM provides each student single room boarding accommodation, preparing them for British and other international universities.

Subjects

• A-Level subjects offered by the Arts Department are Accounting, Economics, English Literature, and History.
• The Science Department offers Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Marine Science.
• The Maths Department offers both Mathematics and Further Mathematics.

Places of interest

• Academic Block
• Crossroads (junction)
• The Ramirez
• The Great Hall
• Japanese Garden
• Musolla as-Saad
• The New Block (Lembah Beringin Business School also known as LBBS)
• Orde Kosmos
• Resource Centre
• Saad Square
• The Mall

Facilities

Students live in 104 chalets - 42 for male and 62 for female students. The football field and the multipurpose hall separate the areas.

Each chalet houses four students, each with their own room.

In 2006, one of the staff apartments - Block F - was renovated to allow for more student accommodation, due to a shortage of housing. Although the apartments were readied in time for the July 2006 student intake, there were sufficient chalets to accommodate all the students at the time. During that time, alumni returning to college for events such as the annual Alumni Weekend stayed there. The apartments have begun to be used by students in the January 2007 intake.

A new block was completed in July 2006. The second floor of the block is used by the Arts department for classes, whereas the old Arts department classes (on the ground floor of the Academic Block) were converted into science laboratories. It is called Lembah Beringin Business School.

The teachers and staff live in apartments provided on site. The teachers' apartments consist of three blocks situated next the boys' chalet area, whereas the staff apartments are located behind the female students' chalet area. The Headmaster has decreed that the maximum number of cats allowed in each staff apartments is two.

The college has 10 science laboratories, two lecture theatres, three IT laboratories which supply the access to the internet connection and air-conditioned classes. Initially there was only one academic block, with only eight science laboratories. However, a new block was added in 2006, and the non-laboratory classes on the ground floor were renovated to become two science laboratories.

The college has an Olympic-size swimming pool , a football field, two basketball courts, two tennis courts, two volleyball court and a multipurpose hall. As well as housing two squash courts, the multipurpose hall can be used as a futsal court, four badminton courts, or a basketball court (not simultaneously). Usually it is set up to form 3 badminton courts, with the area of the final badminton court used to set up ping-pong tables.

Comprehensive CCTV is currently being installed to adequately monitor the student population to guard against future incidents of thefts from student chalets.

Student Services

KYUEM has a Student Services' Department which looks after the pastoral side of student life, as well as monitoring acceptable behaviour and conduct. Though, as of January 2016 this role is likely to become one more associated with a policing function as random room searches and urine tests are promised.

House system

Students at KYUEM are sorted into four houses. Friendly rivalry between the houses is a norm in the school, especially in sports, annual cultural competition (Bangsawan) and the end of year House Cup. The four houses are Garnet, Topaz, Sapphire and Diamond.

Clubs and societies

Students, when they are not participating in lessons, assemblies or tutor periods have the freedom to join in club and society activities after lessons and in the evenings. There are frequent evening events held in the Great Hall, such as the Chinese Cultural Society, and Traditional Dance and Dikir Barat interhouse competitions.

College magazine

Veritas is the official school magazine, which only publishes once a year. It is also the longest-running college publication. Edited by students under the Veritas Club at the college, although liable to censorship, it has a tradition of satirising and even attacking school policies, as well as documenting recent events. The magazine is published for record and as a forum for comment and debate. It does not have the expression of individual opinions in the school.

• Arabic Fellowship,
• Badminton Club,
• Chess Club,
• Chinese Cultural Club,
• Computer Club,
• Creative Club,
• Cultural Club,
• Culinary Art Club,
• Cycling Club,
• Debate Club,
• Film and Cinema Society,
• Football Club,
• Green Thumb,
• Indian Cultural Club,
• Japanese Cultural Club,
• Malay Cultural Club (MCC)
• Model United Nation,
• MUSCOM
• Music Club,
• Natural History Club,
• Photography Club,
• Public Speaking Club,
• Research & Development Club,
• Rotaract,
• Scrabble Club,
• Spanish Club,
• Veritas
• Rugby Club

Song

The song used to be sung by the students in the Great Hall every week at the start of each assembly.

Teachers

Recent changes have ensured that the teaching staff are available for the students from 8-4pm through a tap-in tap-out system which encourages teachers to be at their desks while not teaching throughout the working day. There is an increasing problem with continuity as staff retention has suffered over the past few years as a result of draconian management.

See also

• List of schools in Selangor

References

External links

• Kolej Yayasan UEM website
• Kolej Yayasan UEM Android App

Coordinates: 3°33′39.98″N 101°32′20.02″E / 3.5611056°N 101.5388944°E / 3.5611056; 101.5388944