International Student Mobility Programmes and Summer Schools

Malaysia is known for its natural beauty and diversified cultures immersed in a modern and progressive society. A complete safe eco-system with political stability for our international students who will experience a unique learning exposure from cultural, economic, educational, and ecological aspects.

A programme designed to give our international students a wide spectrum view of possibilities with sufficient depth of understanding of the subject matter in a short timeframe.

We have an extensive experience in organising international mobility programmes for the past twenty years. With our strong international engagements, we receive both corporate clients and international students from overseas under the mobility and capacity development programmes. Our programmes are designed to enhance their global experience, develop cross-cultural competencies and we prepare them industry ready with the right mindset, skills and knowledge.

The powerful and disruptive changes associated with digital transformation make the roles of leaders and head of departments more complex than before, which results in new and demanding challenges for companies and leaders alike. With this in mind, building on the competing values framework, which postulates that leaders and the workforce alike must adopt multiple roles and behaviours. This international mobility programme is designed to give our international students an insight into the various developments and progress made in the following sectors with some hands-on activities in the classroom and a real life experiences during industry visits.

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English International

Mobility Programme

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GIA offers English language mobility programmes to equip our students with essential English language skills to prepare themselves for the real world after campus life. Infact our mobility programmes are designed to combine English enrichment and cultural exchange activities. In addition to this, our subject matter experts have carefully designed these courses in a systematic manner to build-up our teaching and learning strategies to enable our international students to develop a sound foundation in English. Our mobility programmes have been proven to be highly interactive with a wide range of activity-based learnings.

A placement test is administered prior to the commencement of the programme to enable us to place our students based on their strength in their Oral and Written components. The placement test is to ensure that our students get the best out of our training programmes.

Our English teachers are highly qualified with vast experience with student-centered approach will always be available for guidance for students needing special attention. Our students will experience a varied learning activities such as cross-cultural conversations, extensive reading, oral presentations and weekly project-based learning. Our oral component takes our students into listening and speaking modes while the written component focuses on reading and writing.

Apart from classroom activities, our students will also get opportunities to meet new local friends with students from other countries too and join our special site-seeing and city tours arranged by GIA. Yes! Student will get the chance to immerse themselves during weekends in Malaysia’s rich culture and heritage. Some places of interest they will visits are as follows:

Batu Caves

Putrajaya

Genting Highlands

Central Market and Night Market

Historical Malacca City

At the end of the programme, students will be given a transcript of their assessments taken to determine their English language proficiency competency level. Some of our international students are able to earn credits from their university upon approval from our English International Mobility Programme too. Our programmes are fully approved, endorsed and certified by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
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Digital Marketing and Branding

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Digital marketing skills are critical not only for digital marketing professionals but for anyone working in a business that has an online presence. This includes entrepreneurs, marketing managers, marketing specialists, and small business owners.

Our industry practitioners will share the various range of approaches and tactics to reach and persuade the target audience through digital media, including email marketing, social media marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), content marketing and online advertising.

Participants will learn practical methods of how to harness the power of Digital Marketing as the core driver of marketing strategy; how to apply successful marketing campaigns, measure outcomes and plan a marketing strategy.
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

Create and Brand Personal/Organization fans page in social media,

Attract the right target audience and quality fans

Convert the traffics and fans to become leads/customer

Perform competitive intelligence on the competitors and beat the competition

How to improve brand awareness, generate leads, increase website traffic and ultimately, drive sales and business growth.

We hope this one week programme will also help our students to understand the customer journey to build positive and relevant experiences across all channels and touch points in digital marketing and branding – and ultimately to create both value and competitive advantages for the organisation.

Multimedia and Design

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This one week Multimedia & Design mobility programme embraces the art of integrating multiple forms of media that delves into the core aspects of modern multimedia and design. Today’s creative industries are extensively using multimedia for a variety of purposes ranging from fine arts to entertainment, from commercial art to journalism, to media and software services.

Our industry experts will share their experiences on how transferable technical skills that are highly adaptable to various creative and design industries can be capitalised to the fullest from technical to analytical to creative. The programme will also encourages students to explore their own creative abilities and skills.

In today’s digital age, effective multimedia and design skills are essential for communicating ideas, engaging audiences and creating impactful brand experiences. The programme will demonstrate on how students can be empowered with the ability to design visually appealing websites, craft intuitive user interfaces and harness the potential of augmented and virtual reality to enhance brand presence.
Upon completion of the one week programme, students will be able to:

Demonstrate a deep understanding of multimedia design principles and concepts.

Understand how to design and develop interactive and visually appealing websites and graphics.

Understand when and how to apply AR/VR technologies effectively for brand building and immersive experiences.

Able to prepare with confidence for employability after graduation with new ideas.

Digital Transformation / IoT / Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Students in this programme will get a first-hand experience on how leaders in an organisation initiate the process, manage the process and even mobile resources to accomplish the process to embrace digital transformation within an organisation. Hence, this programme will examine and determine the various characteristics of digital leadership that are necessary to lead the digital transformation process within an organization especially in the era of Industry 4.0. It will also cover some element of developments in the IoT framework and the emergence of AI.

As we are fully aware that the digital hyperconnectivity, emergence of new technologies, smart machines are truly disrupting our conventional business models and transforming business landscapes much faster than ever before. Students will be given some insights on how to effectively digitalise, leverage the new technologies, and implement well for business efficiency and growth.

This mobility programme is designed to provide our students with sufficiently broad view of digitalisation possibilities and with a sufficient dept of understanding to get started to embrace the overall concept of digital transformation within this short timeframe. The programme introduces some basic fundamentals of design thinking framework and concepts that can be applied across any designated business digitalisation opportunities
Understanding Internet connectivity

Explore the rise of Industry 4.0 and its challenges

Understanding how digitalisation improves an organisation’s core business operations

Digitalisation products and services

Cybersecurity Mobility Programme

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This non-technical training course will teach you how to consider cyber security strategy and threat intelligence as an integral part of your operations, policies and planning. This course also aims to help you build the skills you need to plan for and respond to potential threats – including phishing, malicious software, distributed denial of service (DDOS) and security breaches – in a more strategic way. Participants will have the opportunity to visit industry sites that are currently capitalising on the use of cybersecurity infrastructure in their business strategy.

Interactive & Fun Learning Mobility Programme

This comprehensive International Student Mobility Programme is designed with lots of interactive and fun-learning sessions. It is a unique programme that creates a memorable experience to our students with first-hand knowledge of industrial best practices. We provide our students an enriching learning experience in education and cultural exploration.

Our rich experience in developing and delivering International Mobility and Study Visits programme for the past 10 years has given us an added advantage to our students who will learn from brilliant minds with industrial experience and develop skill sets and confidence that they need to take on the jobs of tomorrow with cross-cultural competencies.

The programme also provides an opportunity to widen the network among friends from local universities and learn to understand and appreciate the diverse multi-ethnic culture of Malaysia which is truly Asia.

The programme includes 4 presentations by industry experts including one panellist session, 3 industry visits, 2 city tours including 1 visit to Genting Highlands and 2 days allocated strictly for arrival and departure activities.

Minimum number of students required for the programme implementation is 30 students per cohort.

Thank you for your interest in our educational programs! We are dedicated to providing a world-class education that will prepare you for success in your chosen field. If you have any questions about our programs or would like to enroll, please don't hesitate to contact us. We would love to hear from you!

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International Student Mobility Programmes and Summer Schools

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Interactive & Fun Learning Mobility Programme

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