Six juvenile offenders at the Kajang Prison may not have the same privileges as other learners but they are making every effort to achieve their own level of success.

Sri Lanka, which has a student population of almost 920,000 and more than 40,000 teachers, is keen to improve on its education management and take its education sector to greater heights.

"Sambutan baik daripada masyarakat menunjukkan OUM adalah antara pilihan utama golongan yang ingin belajar sambil bekerja.

Beliau berkata, pembelajaran sepanjang hayat merupakan satu dasar pendidikan yang diberi penekanan oleh kerajaan malah ia dianggap sebagai tonggak ketiga dalam sistem pendidikan negara selepas pendidikan sekolah dan pengajian tinggi.

"Kita lihat banyak pihak yang menyediakan program pembelajaran sepanjang hayat selain dari institusi pengajian tinggi. Jadi, dasar ini juga dapat mengkoordinasikan program pembelajaran sepanjang hayat yang ditawarkan di institusi pengajian tinggi dengan pihak lain terutama pihak industri," katanya kepada pemberita selepas merasmikan bangunan pusat pembelajaran Universiti Terbuka Malaysia (OUM) dan melancarkan Facebook OUM di sini Jumaat.

"Sebagai daripada tanggungjawab sosial OUM kepada masyarakat, pihak universiti juga telah membangunkan aplikasi e-marketing dan facebook yang bertujuan untuk berhubung dengan pelajar OUM walau di mana mereka berada," katanya.

"The good response from the public shows that OUM is among the main universities chosen by those working and wanting to further their studies at the same time."d

"This programme will be offered to teachers who will be retiring and there will also be short courses for would-be teachers and teachers already in service," he told Bernama after the MoU signing at the OUM main campus here.

"Kerjasama dalam program ini ditawarkan kepada guru-guru yang bakal bersara dan kursus jangka masa pendek untuk meningkatkan profesionalisme guru pra perkhidmatan dan dalam perkhidmatan," katanya kepada Bernama selepas majlis pemeteraian MoU itu di Kampus Utama OUM di sini.

"The course is very interesting and the facilitator is very knowledgeable and pushes you to think outside of the box. One of the biggest challenges we (the participants) had was to create an effective HR plan in fifteen hours, rather than the conventional period of one month," said a participant.