20 March 2010

UTHM hosts Silat Sports Excellence Centre

JOHOR BAHARU, March 20 (Bernama) -- The Higher Education Ministry channeled RM7.2 million to eight universities to make a success of its Sports Excellence Programme which began this year, said its minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin.

He said the eight universities received the funding under the first phase of the programme and that each received RM900,000 for the purpose.

The universities are Universiti Malaya (netball); Universiti Sains Malaysia (swimming); Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (cricket); Universiti Putra Malaysia (rugby); Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (rowing); Universiti Teknologi Mara (football); Universiti Utara Malaysia (golf); and Universiti Malaysia Sabah (taekwondo).

He told this to reporters after announcing that Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) had been selected to be the sports excellence centre for silat sports, here on Saturday.

The programme aims to produce a generation of "Thinking Athletes" and to realise to government's goal of having 30 per cent of national athletes coming from universities by the year 2015.

Sourced from http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/state_news/news.php?id=484012&cat=st

3 comments:

ARTS OF MEOR ACADEMY said...

assalammua'laikum....
saya ingin bertanya, pertubuhan silat apa yang ada di UTHM...

saudara juga dijemput untuk melihat laman blog kami :- meoracademy.blogspot.com
yang baru bertapak di MRSM BATU PAHAT... sekadar ingin berkongsi ilmu dengan saudara..

Mohd Nadzrin Wahab said...

Waalaikumussalam,

Harap maaf, saya juga kurang arif tentang perguruan yang ada di UTHM. Sekiranya saya mendapat tahu saya akan sampaikan kepada tuan. Terima kasih atas jemputan tuan. Saya sudahpun melawat blog tuan. Tahniah atas penubuhan akademi tersebut.

Wassalam,

ARTS OF MEOR ACADEMY said...

ingin tahu,
-Sekiranya UTHM ada menganjurkan pertandingan, adakah boleh pesilat dari MRSM Batu Pahat mengambil bahagian?
-Adakah dibenarkan sekiranya pesilat MRSM Batu Pahat ingin membuat latihan silat olahraga bersama pesilat UTHM, bagi penyediaan Kejohanan Pencak Silat MRSM 2011, untuk makluman pihak tuan MRSM Batu Pahat adalah Johan Bagi Zon Selatan.
-Sekiranya dibenarkan, bagaimanakah cara untuk pesilat dari MRSM Batu Pahat ini ingin memohon?