" In current times, there is a pressing need for positive social change and this depends on the right type of education. The underlying fact is that the paradigm of traditional education of schooling is ineffective to a certain level because it is based on an intrinsic mistrust of the human personality. In turn, what is needed is a humane education that respects students' needs for their development as complete, rational and moral human beings, i.e. a holistic education.

The premise of the HELP Matriculation Centre (HMC) Foundation in Arts and Foundation in Science programmes is to provide conditions for students to free their minds in order to cultivate a naturally meaningful human intelligence or "creative intelligence". The programmes further pays tribute to students by helping them recognise the psychological value of their learning experiences to help build self-confidence, self-respect, creative intelligence and moral courage.

With an added flexibility to the foundation programmes, students have a choice of pursuing disciplines in business, economics, psychology, mass communication and humanities for Foundation in Arts, engineering, medicine, pharmacy and other science disciplines for Foundation in Science at the tertiary level. The result are students who develop as individuals with human potentials - physical, cognitive, intellectual, artistic, psychological, emotional - and graduates of high calibre and high demand in the market.

At the HELP Matriculation Centre, there is provision to integrate learning with life which allows for the development of human potential and an avenue for self empowerment."



Dhanesh Balakrishnan,
Dean, Faculty of University Foundation Studies