News for Asasi TESL Intake 2015/2016

Update (15/5/2015):

Hello there! I have a new update regarding the placement of Asasi TESL 2015/2016 students. As you may know, it is written on your letter that you are given the names of a transit / temporary campus, and a permanent campus.

I have seen this matter before during my time, but it occurred to the Art & Design students (in which their permanent campus is the Puncak Alam campus). But up until now, they have spent 2 semesters in Shah Alam, probably due to the delayed completion of Art & Design campus there.

Some of my friends have brought this matter to the attention of our head of programme (Ms Melissa Malik) and she gave us a short but definitive response regarding this:

Assalamualaikum dear readers.

Hear ye, hear ye... I bear some news for you humans.

How's it going? Great? Good? Well, keep it up folks. Right now, I'm at the final week of my second semester. Almost there. I could barely see the finish line at the end of the road. By early April, I would be finishing my Asasi TESL program. Phew....

[From here on, the programme I'm referring is the Asasi TESL UiTM]

Recently, I've been repeatedly asked and inquired by questions concerning this program. And I must say, I'm proud of myself to be able to write something that people can refer to. During my time, there were like not much references or blog posts that I can use as reference.

I can say that lots of people are interested to be in this program. I can see why would they make that choice: it's a fast lane, another way out from the mainstream science and all those mumbo-jumbo subjects and just pure interest. Well, there's more to that, kids. And as you can see by the title, I have some news (not sure if it's good or bad) for the freshmen.



1. Campus location

For all these years, the Faculty of Education (it's the name of the 'school' where you study under UiTM's name) is known to be located far off the main campus (Seksyen 1/2/7) which is located in Seksyen 17, Shah Alam. And yes, it is situated inside the INTEC campus (a preparation 'school' for students who plan to further their study overseas).

But lately, there has been a rumour concerning this matter - the changing of location. It was said that the Faculty may have to be relocated somewhere else due to the fact that now INTEC has fully operated as a private education institution under UiTM and basically they own the place.

There are other rumours going among the students that the Faculty might be relocated somewhere not near the vicinity of either the main campus or the Seksyen 17 campus. Worse, some said it will be placed in the new campus in either Puncak Perdana or Puncak Alam.

This is the new UiTM campus situated in Puncak Alam

Why worse? Well, Puncak Alam & Puncak Perdana is basically a place located very, very far away from the central city of Shah Alam. Like literally, the place is surrounded by oil palm forests and developing areas roamed by cranes and machines as the once-dense forest is now being transformed as a city.

Prof. Dr. Mohd Mustafa bin Mohd Ghazali
Dean of Faculty of Education

These rumours, however, have been confirmed by the Dean of the Faculty himself, in an event last week. He said that the Faculty will be relocated to Puncak Alam campus, and will be provided with two 9-storey buildings (if I'm not mistaken) to suit the need of having our own faculty in our own campus.

So yes, these rumours are true and the Faculty of Education will move to Puncak Alam by the end of this year, and the first batch of students to experience learning in the new faculty area is the March 2015 intake (I'm probably one of them, Insya-Allah).





2. Asasi campus

Yes, you read that right.

There will be a new campus only for Asasi UiTM students, where all four foundation programs will be centralised here in Dengkil.

For your information, UiTM offers 4 foundation programs namely:

• Asasi TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language)
• Asasi Undang-Undang (Law)
• Asasi Sains (Science)
• Asasi Kejuruteraan (Engineering)

Before this, the foundation programs are held within the campuses all over Malaysia. For instance, students can join Asasi TESL in 3 campuses: in Shah Alam, Kuantan and Malacca; while Asasi Undang-Undang can be found in Shah Alam main campus, Asasi Sains in Puncak Alam and Asasi Kejuruteraan in Seri Iskandar, Perak.

For more information, you can go to the Pusat Asasi UiTM official site where you can find the entry requirements as well as what will you learn in the program of your choice.

Check you entry requirement here. (You will be required to fill in your SPM result)

Well folks, that's all the news for today. I'll keep updating about the Foundation Studies in UiTM. Do wish me luck for final exam! :)

Update: You guys can check out another section of this blog all about Asasi TESL program in UiTM. The link is here.

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