Sunway College and St Joseph College Sign MOU

On 29^th September 2017, Sunway College (KL) and St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bengaluru, India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim to foster collaboration between the VU Undergraduate Programme and the School of Commerce, St Joseph’s College (Autonomous). The signing of this MoU is an important milestone in the history of the VU Undergraduate Programme.

The MoU was signed by Mr Teo Ee Sing , Executive Director on behalf of Sunway Education Group and Rev. Fr. Richard Stephan Rego, Director, International Collaboration on behalf of St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous). The MoU signing was witnessed by Dr Elizabeth Lee, Senior Executive Director, Sunway Education Group, Dr Christo Selvan, Dean, School of Commerce of St. Joseph’s College, Dr Hendry Ng, Director of VU Postgraduate Programme, Ms Greeja De Silva, Director of VU Undergraduate Programme as well as academic staff and students of VU Undergraduate Programme.

The objective of the MoU is to promote academic excellence and expand international opportunities in education and research between the two educational institutions. This collaboration is intended to cover three main areas namely, to facilitate student exchange, academic staff exchange and collaborative research projects between the two educational institutions.

The move for collaboration and the signing of the MoU was initiated by Dr Benedict Valentine Arulanandam, a Senior Lecturer of the VU Undergraduate Programme and Dr Christo Selvan.

Dr Elizabeth Lee, in her address to the gathering, highlighted the common goals and values of both institutions which were to provide quality education and higher education opportunities to deserving students. She also touched on Sunway’s vision to nurture future accountants, business professionals and entrepreneurs and provide them with an international outlook and promote lifelong learning by seeking out strategic associations with other international institutions of higher learning such as Oxford and Cambridge University. Dr Rego, in his address greeted the gathering with a warm “Selamat Petang” and proceeded to introduce St.Joseph’s College, highlighting their many achievements and emphasis on character development of their students.   

The MoU signing ceremony kicked off with a sentimental medley song by two VU students, Jonathan T Kuruvilla and David Frank Ahimaz and ended with a jaunty one-of-a kind beatboxing expressing the history of Sunway College by VU student, Jonathan San Weng-Hong.