August 2022 – These couple of years have witnessed teaching and learning evolve in unexpected ways, with all the banes and boons tagging along as the consequence of the COVID19 affecting every nook and cranny of our lives. Master of Science in Technology-Integrated Language Studies (MScTILS) has also been in that boat sailing through the course passing all the hurdles that the pandemic has caused but that’s the way the cookies crumble.

5 June 2022 – MUET Session 1 2022 examination in Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) marked its history as it became the first MUET examination unprecedentedly conducted in two test centres which were UMP Pekan and UMP Gambang campus. About 290 students have registered as MUET candidates, ranging from 124 candidates in UMP Pekan and 166 candidates in UMP Gambang.

The written test was held in Astaka, UMP Gambang and lecture rooms in the Centre for Modern Languages (CML) in UMP Pekan on Saturday morning of 26 March 2022. The candidates for both campuses then sat for their oral tests which were conducted several days later.

15 May 2022 – Intelligentsia Club UMP had successfully conducted a Fiction Factory Programme - a writing competition. The programme was held for 2 weeks which started from 23 April until 5 May 2022 via an online platform.

This program was an initiative to spark students’ interest in creative writing and to also encourage and develop innovative and creative thinking among the students.

The participants of this event were UMP students and the jury of this program was Ms. Fathiah Izzati Mohamad Fadzillah, a language teacher at Centre for Modern Languages (CML), Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP).  In general, a total of 18 students joined the writing competition.

4 June 2022 – A MUET E-Seminar was successfully conducted through a joint venture program between the Competency Unit from the Centre for Modern Languages (CML) and the Community Brigade, Centre of Excellence of DRB Hicom University. This Community Service Relation (CSR) programme was conducted via Microsoft Teams on Friday, 3 June 2022.

The sessions were presented by four experienced senior language teachers from the Department of English Language in CML, Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), namely Ms. Nor Suhardiliana Sahar, Ms. Siti Ainun Jariyah Hassan, Ms. Noraisah Nurul Fatwa Mohd Razali and Ms. Noor Azlinda Zainal Abidin.