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HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT TVET 4.0 – AWARDING PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN DATA SCIENCE TO POLITECHNIC AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE LECTURERS
PUTRAJAYA, 28th February: The Certificate Awarding Ceremony of the Professional Certificate in Data Science which was held at Dorsett Putrajaya Hotel by UTM, awarded 10 lecturers from various polytechnics and community colleges across Malaysia who had successfully completed the 4-month course. Y. Bhg. Prof. Dato’ Dr. Mohd Ismail bin Abd Aziz, Director General, Department of Polytechnic and Community College Education, Ministry of Higher Education officiated the ceremony and gave away the completion certificates to the awardees. Professional Certificates Training in Data Science started last October 2017, focusing on high data science skills to polytechnic and community college lecturers. The training certificates are not only concentrating on knowledge advancement of data science but also implementing the 21st century pedagogy approaches with the concept of Teaching and Learning 4.0.
Professional Certificates Training in Data Science is organised by UTM Big Data Centre, one of the research centres in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), emphasising the General Intelligence Big Data Science. This centre is one of the pioneer centres in Malaysia conducting Professional Certificates Training in Data Science and Big Data. Professional Certificates Training in Data Science to polytechnic and community college staff started on 30 October 2017 until end of February 2018.
The 4-month training in Data Science (Gold Package) provides in-depth and high skill data science knowledge needed for a data scientist. The participants learned more than 8 modules including Big Data Intelligence and Analytics using in-house technology and cost-effective big data platforms. Several scripting languages such as R/Python/Hadoop are implemented to integrate various data science formats and platforms for advance analytics with high quality dashboard visualisation. More than 85% of this training focuses on the practical activities using intensive industries datasets ranging from implicit information digestion to explicit analytics. Various industries are also involved during the training in which the industries will share their company problems, while the participants will take an optimal action to solve these problems using their data science skills.
The Director of UTM Big Data Centre, Professor Dr. Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin in her speech thanked the Ministry of Higher Education especially Jabatan Pendidikan Politeknik (JPP) and Jabatan Pendidikan Kolej Komuniti (JPKK) for the continued trust and support in the centre to conduct the training. The centre which actively works together with international and local industries such as NVIDIA, Jeppesen-Boeing and Astro Awani Network Sdn. Bhd will always be passionate in materialising the deployment of Big Data Science knowledge and skills in the real world. UTM through its Big Data Centre is committed to serve as “a university hub for big data intelligence analytics, high performance human cleverness and nature computing as well as a grooming avenue for more data scientists to support the Malaysian Industrial Revolution 4.0”.
Y. Bhg. Prof. Dato’ Dr. Mohd Ismail bin Abd Aziz, Director General, Department of Polytechnic and Community College Education, Ministry of Higher Education, representative from UTM Big Data Centre and Junior Data Science