Kolej Yayasan UEM

UEM Foundation College Kolej Yayasan UEM (KYUEM) کوليج يايسن يو.إي.عيم
Location
Lembah Beringin , Selangor Malaysia
Coordinates	3°33′40″N101°32′20″E / 3.5611°N 101.5389°E / 3.5611; 101.5389
Information
Type	Private boarding school
Motto	Knowledge Is The Road To Truth
Established	1998
Founder	Tan Sri Halim Saad
Chief Executive Officer	Mazyu Sherina Yusof
Headmaster	David Vroege
Staff	160 approx
Gender	Boys and girls
Age	16to 20
Enrollment	524 approx
Houses	4 (Diamond, Garnet, Sapphire, Topaz)
Colour(s)	White and blue
Website	www.kyuem.edu.my

Kolej Yayasan UEM or KYUEM (formerly known as Kolej Matrikulasi Yayasan Saad) is a Malaysian private boarding school in Lembah Beringin, Selangor, Malaysia. It is owned by Yayasan UEM, and is also part of the UEM Group. KYUEM offers the A-Level program under the Cambridge Assessment International Education examination board.

Planned by Tan Sri Halim Saad, Kolej Matrikulasi Yayasan Saad (as it was then known) is a residential college, modelled after British boarding schools. The teaching staff consists of Malaysians as well as expatriate teachers. KYUEM is known to be a 'premier' A-Levels college, with its students consistently attaining Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards and securing offers into the highest-ranking universities.

Overview

KYUEM boards about 525 students mostly between the ages of 16 and 20. The college is led by a headmaster, who is appointed by the Board of Governors and the Board of Trustees. Each house is overseen by a houseparent, typically selected from the teaching or administrative staff.^{[ citation needed ]}

Almost all of the school's graduates achieve conditional offers into universities through the UCAS application process, several to Oxford or Cambridge every year and a majority to universities such as University College London, Imperial College London, University of Warwick, London School of Economics, King's College London, University of Edinburgh and The University of Manchester. Some of the graduates studied at universities in the United States such as MIT, UC Berkeley, Princeton University and Harvard University. ^[1]

Curriculum

In addition to the core A-level subjects, it is compulsory for students to take the IELTS as it is an admissions criteria for universities in the United Kingdom.

Most students at the school take four A-Level subjects, but many also take three. The A-Level subjects offered are: ^[2]

• by the Arts Department – Accounting, Economics, English Literature, History and Geography.
• by the Science Department – Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Marine Science.
• by Mathematics Department – Mathematics and Further Mathematics.

Facilities

Students either live in one of the 104 houses or villas - 42 for male and 62 for female students;^{[ needs update ]} one of the 8 villas - 5 for male and 3 for female students; or the apartments usually housing girls. A new block was completed in July 2006. The second floor of the block is used by the Arts department for classes, whereas the old Arts department classes (on the ground floor of the Academic Block) were converted into science laboratories. The teachers and staff live in apartments provided on-site.^{[ citation needed ]}

The college has 10 science laboratories, two lecture theatres, three IT laboratories which supply access to the internet connection and air-conditioned classes. Initially, there was only one academic block, with only eight science laboratories. However, a new block was added in 2006, and the non-laboratory classes on the ground floor were renovated to become two science laboratories.^{[ citation needed ]}

The college has an Olympic-size swimming pool, a football field, two basketball courts, two tennis courts, two volleyball court, and a multipurpose hall for squash, futsal badminton, or a basketball court (not simultaneously).^{[ citation needed ]}

Students at KYUEM are sorted into four houses: Diamond, Garnet, Sapphire and Topaz.^{[ citation needed ]}

See also

• Education in Malaysia
• List of post-secondary institutions in Malaysia
• List of schools in Selangor

References

1. "KYUEM students continue to secure top world university placements". Free Malaysia Today . 6 April 2022. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
2. "The Curriculum". kyuem.edu.my. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.

External links

• Kolej Yayasan UEM website