Happy 5th Birthday to UTAR

Disebalik tasik tinggalan pelombong,
Disebalik semak samun,
Tercerita satu perjuangan warga cina,
perjuangan ke arah pendidikan,
ke arah pembangunan insan dan negara,
Disebalik cerita UTAR

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, established in June 10, after a long discussion with government to expend TARC into a university. However, our former Dr M, decided to have UTAR established to allow more students from Malaysia to study at variety of universities available in the country. Tun Dr Ling along with the management team lead by Tan Sri Datuk Dr Ng Lay Swee work hard to get the best council internationally and locally to help maintaining the high standard in the university.

Today UTAR after 5 years have achieve a milestone of achievement. There been controversy since establishment of UTAR such as why UTAR majority is Chinese, UTARian English standard are poor, Perak Government bias as they give such a Big land to UTAR and so on. However all these controversy doesn't stop UTAR development as all the argument is not true. UTAR open to all Malaysian, Not all UTARian are bad in English (lecturing is full in English), and Perak Government sponsor land for UTAR because they foreseen development in Kampar.

5 years and what UTAR achieve may seem too fast, but this is the unique of UTAR. Standing at New Kampar town that is our UTAR main campus. An artistic structure which our very own Higher Education Minister said was the most beautiful Campus in Malaysia. UTAR students are employable and demand on the students is very high. Now we have over 17000 students in 4 Faculties, and foundation studies all in 4 campuses (PJ, Setapak, Sg Long and Kampar).

The existence of UTAR have bring hope to more than thousand of students who graduated since August 2005. In future, UTAR will expand with Faculty of Human Health and Medicine which was announce since establishment of UTAR. Kampar will sooner turn into a town of students as 20000 students are expected to be there by 2009.

UTAR campus will sooner become one of the biggest campus if they fully develop the land. The land is much bigger compare to some of the universities in our country. I strongly believe UTAR have done a great job and will continue to success in time to come..

Happy Birthday UTAR..haha