AN Indian lecturer from the Institut Pendidikan Guru Kampus Ipoh (IPGKI) has been recognised with a prestigious teaching award.
Dr Arulnathan Visurasam, head of the Tamil studies department at IPGKI, received the Pensyarah Berwibawa award during the Education Ministry’s National Teachers Day celebration in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia Nanban reported.
The lecturer is well-known for his educational innovation, research, publications and leadership in education.
Under his guidance, IPGKI students have won more than 20 gold, silver and bronze medals at international competitions.
Arulnathan has also contributed more than 100 Tamil language books to IPGKI’s library and serves as a research supervisor for future educators pursuing bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Tamil and Malay language education.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
