A Night at the German Embassy

Today the Head of HEU, Ck. Pg. Hjh. Mashayu as well as Ck. Nur Adyani and Senior Mistress Mdm Joanna Lim were invited to the German Embassy for a briefing by the Managing Director of the Karlsruhe University, Michael Kurth. The briefing was held at 5.30pm at the official residence of the German Ambassador to Brunei.




The main topic of the briefing was about the availibility of a Mechanical Engineering course which will be taught in English at the University. Maktab Duli's HEU were very fortunate to be there because we were able to learn more about the first Engineering course to be taught in English in a well established University. Universitat Karlsruhe (TH) is one of the oldest universities in Europe, established in 1825 and is one of the top three Universities in Germany. The course in itself is very prestigious as Germany is very well known for its' superiority in Engineering, especially in the automotive industry. (The creator of Mercedez Benz went to this Uni! The school of Engineering is named after him!)



Among those present at the briefing were Hj Daud, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Ck Hj Abd Aziz, Head of Scholarship Section, representatives from Ministry of Foriegn Affairs, lecturers from Faculty of Science UBD and counsellors from different institutions. It was indeed a privelege to be invited because they are keen on seeing students of Maktab Duli study Engineering at their University as they have heard we have some very promising, bright students!

Click here to know a bit more about the course. The requirements to do this course are

- very good grades in Mathematics and Physics plus another science subject

- must have keen interest and enthusiasm for Engineering as the course is very rigorous, demanding but rewarding as it includes a 16 week internship during the summer and lectures 6 days a week!

Some of the goodies we were presented with at the end of the night

For more information, please make an appointment and visit us as we have the information in the HEU resource library.

HEU Presentation for the New Lower Sixth

Today, the Higher Education Unit was introduced to the new BE's during a briefing session led by the HEU for the Lower Sixth Introduction Week. The briefing was held at the Auditorium at 10am and was presented by the Head of HEU, Ck. Pg. Hjh. Mashayu.

Main contents of the briefing included a video presentation and followed with an introduction of the 7 members of the HEU, a brief summary of our aims and objectives, an overview of the activities and programmes held by HEU and lastly what are the HEU's expectations for the lower sixth. This was then followed by a Q&A session where one brave student , Md.Farhan was able to gain an exclusive one-on-one special career counselling session with HEU for taking the initiative to ask a question to us. It is hoped that the new BE's will be able to benefit from the briefing and we hope that we left them inspired with the motivation to have a VISION!

A snapshot of our newest members of the College. Welcome to Maktab Duli! :)

Important Reminder to this years' UCAS applicants

This is to remind all of this year's UCAS applicants that they are only able to register with UCAS after obtaining a buzzword from HEU.

In order to get a buzzword you must first see your HEU counsellor and show a satisfying personal statement. This is because the personal statement differentiates your from other students and will be a big factor in the university selection process. Remember, our aim is to make sure you get into the BEST universities possible,thus it will be of a competitive nature!

Why we have all these procedures is to ensure that you have done ALL your research and have fully assessed and editted your personal statement so that you are fully prepared and present yourself in the best way to the universities that you have applied for.

If you have obtained the buzzword WITHOUT seeing your counsellor (i.e. you've gotten it from your friends) then we have the right to DELETE your application.

Choosing to disregard our advice could also lead to us sending your application form WITHOUT CHECKING and CORRECTING THE MISTAKES YOU'VE MADE. This would surely affect your chances of getting into your desired universities.

Bottom line is, If you can't be bothered to see us, then you can't really expect us to put much effort into you can we? Think about it ;)

Study at UBD 2008

This is your chance to see for yourself the courses and programmes that are available at UBD for the academic year 2008/2009.

Date: Saturday 16th February and Sunday 17th February
Time: 8.30am - 5.00pm
Venue: Chancellor's Hall, UBD

Please bring your forms with you and prepare whatever questions you may want to ask to the registrar and admissions committee.

UNISSA Open Day

Universiti Islam Sultan Sharif Ali (UNISSA) will be holding an Open Day to introduce to the public and applicants the courses and programmes avaiable at the Uni for the year 2008/2009.

Details of the event are as follows,
Date: Sunday, 10th February 2008
Time: 8am - 4.30pm
Place: Multi Purpose Hall, Staff Student Affairs Building, UBD

Details of courses and application forms can be found HERE.
To see UNISSA's press release about the English courses available click here

Maktab Sains UK Universities Fair

Ck Pg Hjh Mashayu, Cikgu Adyani and Cikgu Siti took the opportunity to visit the MS UK Universities Fair with three of our students.

We met Mr.Ray George who was kind enough to welcome us and also show us their Careers Centre! The visit was a good way to enhance professional ties between HEU and the MS Careers Dept, plus we were also able to benefit from talking to a few of the university representatives who were present at the event.

The Maktab Duli HEU would like to extend our grattitude and appreciation to the MS careers Centre for inviting us to their event and welcoming our presence in their school. Thank you!

HEU at the Scholarship Exhibition

Guest of Honour, Deputy Secretary of the MOE Awg Hj Md Daud Bin Haji Mahmud, giving his inspiring speech.


Cikgu Adyani, Cikgu Siti and Ck. Pg Hjh Mashayu (not in picture) were the HEU counsellors who went to the launching of the exhibition.


The three HEU student cadets that came along and greatly benefitted from seing what the exhibiiton had to offer.

A list of the those that participated in the exhibition is as follows,

Scholarship Section, MOE
Accreditation Centre, MOE
Technical Education Department, MOE
Ministry Of Health
Ministry of Defence
Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam
Sultan's Scholar, Yayasan SHHB
Brunei Shell Petroleum
Royal Brunei Airlines
British Council
HRD, B.Lau, James Hon
HSBC, BIBD and Standard Chartered Bank

What was new this year was that they were also receiving scholarship appplications during the exhibition, where students were interviewed briefly and applications were taken in.



This was definitely a worthwhile experience as a lot of questions were able to be answered, connections made and we also had the opprtunity to update the information we had at HEU.