Technical college students undergo business training
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Students of MTSSR at the one-day business practical session.

Some 34 final-year mechanical students of a technical college currently undergoing a short entrepreneurship course were given an opportunity to learn the tricks of the trade yesterday at the Gerai-Serbanika Persekutuan Peniaga-Peniaga Melayu Brunei (PPPMB) at the car park area of Bangunan Delima Desa, Kg Serusop.

The Maktab Teknik Sultan Saful Rijal's students conducted sales of products such as living-room tables, iron vase stands, barbeque stands, cakes and biscuits made by them. With the help of PPPMB, they were able to analyse marketing strategy from the customer satisfaction level to the sensational level in their bid to enter entrepreneurship if they are not able to secure employment after graduation.

According to Cikgu Harun, around 30 percent of MTSSR graduates would be unemployed soon after graduation over the last few years. It will take them a period of one to three years or more after graduation before they could secure jobs.

"The entrepreneurship course is to expose them to business as one option to make a living if they could not find jobs. This way they could contribute to nation building."

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin