Green Race @ UBD

Few weeks ago on the 23rd April, the Earth Day Green Race was organised by students taking the GenNext breadth module - Environment, Society and Globalisation (ESG). The purpose of the event was to increase awareness among students and public members alike of the existence of Earth Day.

More than 50 undergraduates participated in the race.The participants were to move/run around the campus in order to complete different challenging tasks for example cycling, making paper butterflies, counting car parks at IHS, looking for clues in bottles, etc. There were 12 groups altogether, each having 4 members. Two of the groups were joined by IHS students.

Around 1.45 pm. Location: IHS building

Around 2.15 pm at the assembly point, the new ICTC building entrance

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Before the race began, the participants were given instructions

Our colleague, Liyana was giving the instructions.

Below is also a photo of our colleagues, probably discussing something.

And the race began!

After the race!

This group won number 5! Congrats there! :)

IHS Groups

Below is a photo of the Earth Day founder. Can you guess who?

Okay, this is Sir Gaylord Nelson. He was the principal founder of Earth Day in 1970

The clues we collected during the race.

The start of prize giving ceremony

Professor Dr Azman, lecturer of Environmental, Society and Globalisation presented prizes to winners and tokens of appreciation to participants.

Our prizes!

We won number 7.

Our group's flower! One of the tasks was to find and choose a flower hidden somewhere and then paint the pot. Nice choice of flower guys! :)

We received goodie bags too! Each bag has a bottle, a rain coat and a flyer about Earth Day. We, as a group, received a $30 voucher from Best Eastern. The prices were sponsored by HSBC.

We had fun participating the event. Congrats to winners and kudos to the organizers for successfully organizing an awesome race! We hope for more awesome events soon!

IHS Student Council IT Department

Jogathon at UBD

As we all know, UBD jogathon was held last Sunday on the 17^th April 2011.

It began and ended at our new students residence, The Core.

Before the event started, we had aerobic session.

Participants getting ready for the event

Coming back

Some of the prices

Medals

contribution from Imperial Sports

lucky draw

Some after event photos

Winners from our institute are:

Our lecturers, Ms. Hjh Asmah and Ms. Norhayati, 1st and 5th place in the female UBD staff (age 31 to 40) category

Our technician, Hai , 2nd place in the male UBD staff category

Our assistant registrar, Ms. Zeti ,4th place in female UBD staff 30 below category

A 2nd cohort nursing student Diyanah Hadini, 9th place in the female students category

A 3rd year biomedical student, Zaharuddin, 7th place & a 2nd year paramedic student, Semiun, 9th place in male students category

and a 3rd year biomedical sciences student, Fuitze Tan, 1st place in the female students category

Fuitze Tan

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS OF THE EVENT!

Photos are taken from Library@UBD facebook and Lin Siew

IHS Student Council IT Department

4th Annual General Meeting

13th April 2011- 4th Annual General Meeting has been held today at Chancellor Hall. It discussed about the problems faced by UBD students and to show proposals made by PMUBD.

The event started with the arrival of guest of honour, Yang Mulia Prof Madya Dr. Azman bin Ahmad, assistant of deputy chancellor UBD.

Some proposals set by PMUBD are as below:
-Subsidy for co-curiculum clubs are to be increased from 5% to 20%.
-Renovation for PMUBD shop costs about $35,000.(Renovation would start in May)
-The Core project: renovation of gaming room costs about $100,000.

Guest of honour

Some students from IHS attending.

UBD JOGATHON 2011

8th National Perinatal Symposioum

All colleagues at IHS, in particular the nursing colleagues and their students,  are invited to join the symposium.  You can address your registration to Madame Darinah Haji Abdul Manaf  (Head of Registration Committee at IHS)  for now, there will be other members of registration committee to be announced later.

LOCAL NEWS: PAPRSB IHS To Have New Buildings

The Pengiran Anak Puteri Rashidah Sa'adatul Bolkiah Institute of Health Sciences (PAPRSB IHS) is building new extension buildings that will triple its current size. Dr Hajah Maslina binti Hj Mohsin, Dean of PAPRSB IHS, said the new building would include new lecture rooms, theatres, clinic, and health centre and incorporate a simulation area for health students at the institute.

In relation to the clinic, she said the patients will be the students in the university, including those in other faculties. However, if there is a need to extend the services to the community in the area, it will be possible, but naturally it would not be logical to overlap services from the Ministry of Health in that area.

Asked about the possibility in the future to eventually set up a university hospital. Dr Hjh Maslina, who is also the Director of Health Services in the country, said setting up a university hospital is a totally new ball game. But Brunei is hoping to build a second hospital in Brunei-Muara District, and the proposed area might not be far from the university campus.

Dr Mohd Ayub Sadiq @ Lin Naing, the Deputy Dean of PAPRSB IHS said, with the new extension, it is now possible for the institute to provide the students with simulation wards and incorporate real patient clinic. The institute is attracting students locally as well as from abroad. He said there is still room for more students to enrol in the institute. It is important to educate students that health services in a noble profession. The emergence of "centres of excellence" like the Pengiran Anak Puteri Rashidah Sa'adatul Bolkiah Institute of Health Sciences will not be "at the expense of" the institutions in the UK, Mr Rob Fenn, the British High Commissioner said yesterday during his visit.

These institutions in the UK have for so long attracted Bruneian students, he said. "Public health and education occupy strategic positions in Brunei's national life, and are areas where the UK and Brunei can take their longstanding partnership to new levels. "I am a strong supporter of human capital development here in Brunei, as well as in the UK. This is not a zero sum game … quite the reverse, especially in highly technical areas such as medicine."

"The fact that Brunei's ministers of health and education have both visited the UK this year to explore partnerships with British universities and teaching hospitals underscores the fact that we are together looking for new ways to strengthen Brunei's public health infrastructure. I hope this can extend to areas such as improved IT and management information systems, drawing on British expertise in that key area," he said.

During the visit, the British official was briefed by the Dean of PAPRSB IHS, Dr Hajah Maslina, who is also the Director of Health Services, Ministry of Health. The British high commissioner also heard from Dr Mohd Ayub Sadiq @ Lin Naing, the Deputy Dean of PAPRSB and Hjh Jainah binti Hj Musa, progamme Leader of Nursing and Midwifery.

By Azaraimy HH

URL: Borneo Bulletin

UBD Open Day 2011

Inter-Faculty Debate Competition

Blood Donation Campaign in Kiulap, February 17th