Henley Business School Malaysia has announced it will be offering free business skills workshops to unemployed or underprivileged school leavers and young adults from January 2018.
The workshops will be delivered pro bono by members of Henley Business School’s recently established Centre for Global Business Enterprise and Cloud Analytics, at its campus in EduCity in Iskandar Puteri, Johor, Malaysia, which is part of the University of Reading Malaysia.
The Head of Henley Business School Malaysia and Director of the Centre for Global Business Enterprise and Cloud Analytics, Professor Teck Yong Eng, says, “As part of our service to the community, we are committed to upskilling and educating young people who, for reasons such as lack of finance, have not had the opportunity to gain higher education or pursue their dream career such as running their own business. Our aim is to help these people to develop new business skills and guide them in planning a successful career.”
Professor Eng says there are no pre-requisites for interested applicants apart from enthusiasm and desire to succeed. He says the workshops are based on real-life business activities and/or case studies with hands-on opportunities through practical exercises, application of concepts and simulation of business scenarios.
Professor Eng says, “Through these workshops we hope to impart knowledge and new business skills including organisational context, people and organisation, strategy, financial literacy, marketing and communication. We will award our participants with a certificate once they complete the workshops. We hope by then they will have either launched their own business or gained meaningful employment.”
The free Business Skills Workshops will be hosted by the Centre for Global Business Enterprise and Cloud Analytics once a month from the end of January 2018. For further information on the workshops and how to apply, contact Jerome Jayamana at
About the Centre for Global Business Enterprise and Cloud Analytics
The Centre for Global Business Enterprise and Cloud Analytics was launched by Henley Business School Malaysia in 2017 with the aim of simplifying the ways big data is used, understood and analysed to solve business problems. The Centre comprises a group of independent and non-partisan researchers who share an interest in solving non-trivial problems particularly those pertaining to big data in global contexts.
For more information on the Centre for Global Business Enterprise and Cloud Analytics, visit www.reading.edu.my/about-us/henley-business-school/centre-for-global-business-enterprise-and-cloud-analytics
About Henley Business School
Founded in 1945, Henley was the first business school to be established in the UK and is one of the oldest and most respected schools in Europe. Henley Business School is among an elite group of business schools and is consistently ranked among the world’s top 50 business schools by the Financial Times and The Economist. It is one of only a few in Asia to be triple-accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), EMFD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), for the quality and capability of its faculty and output.
As part of the University of Reading, Henley Business School operates within an academic institution that is placed within the top 200 universities globally, according to QS World University Rankings 2018. For more information on Henley Business School, visit www.reading.edu.my/about-us/henley-business-school.
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