UAI opens its doors to prospective students<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Al-Azhar Islamic School Foundation's newly-
\nfounded University of Al-Azhar Indonesia (UAI) is opening its
\ndoors to prospective students, regardless of their religion, a
\nfoundation executive said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Chairman of the foundation Moeslim Aboud Ma'ani said at its
\nheadquarters on Jl. Sisingamangaraja in Kebayoran Baru, South
\nJakarta, that registration for the current academic year started
\non Aug. 8.<\/p>\n
\"Lectures will hopefully begin on Sept. 23,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The first batch of UAI students will temporarily use part of
\nthe eight-floor building currently used by Al-Azhar kindergarten
\nto high school students in the 4.7-hectare Kebayoran Baru
\ncomplex, Moeslim said.<\/p>\n
A separate UAI building, financed with an investment of some
\nRp 17 billion (US$2 million) is to be constructed at the complex
\non a two-hectare plot near the Al-Azhar mosque. It is expected to
\nbe completed in 2002, he added.<\/p>\n
Al-Hazar's Kebayoran Baru complex is home to a kindergarten
\nand an elementary, junior and senior high school. They attract
\nthousands of children, mostly from wealthy families who can
\nafford to pay the high school fees.<\/p>\n
The new university's rector is former state minister of
\nresearch and technology Zuhal.<\/p>\n
It has six schools, namely engineering, maths and sciences,
\neconomics, education, literature and religious studies.<\/p>\n
Moeslim estimated that UAI would be able to accept at least
\n2,000 of the students who graduate from the five Al-Azhar senior
\nhigh schools yearly.<\/p>\n
The foundation runs 63 schools, including 24 kindergartens, 23
\nelementary schools, and 11 junior high schools, spread over the
\nprovinces of Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java and West
\nKalimantan.<\/p>\n
Zuhal said that UAI students have to pay Rp 2 million for
\nadmission, Rp 1.5 million for tuition per semester and Rp 40,000
\nfor each credit unit taken.<\/p>\n
He said tuition fees at the university were much lower than
\nthe Rp 7 million paid by parents of children at the Al-Azhar
\nkindergarten.<\/p>\n
English and Arabic will be the medium for all subjects from
\nthe second year, he said.<\/p>\n
Compulsory English and Arabic classes taken by first-year
\nstudents will be taught by native speakers.<\/p>\n
Syofyan Saad, chairman of the university's founding team, said
\nthat like other Al-Azhar schools, the university would be open to
\nnon-Muslims.<\/p>\n
\"UAI also provides scholarships for students willing to learn
\nsciences, which have so far been neglected by the government,\"
\nSyofyan said.<\/p>\n
The new university has nothing to do with Al-Azhar University
\nin Cairo, Egypt.<\/p>\n
\"Our relationship with it is solely spiritual. But anyway,
\nwe've informed it about possible cooperation,\" Moeslim said.<\/p>\n
The money for the construction of the UAI campus has come from
\nlocal and overseas donators, he said. (01)<\/p>",
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