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Kampus Limkokwing di Kelantan
21 April 2012, Utusan OnlineKOTA BHARU 20 April - Universiti Teknologi Kreatif Lim Kok Wing (Limkokwing) meluaskan empayar pendidikannya di negeri ini dengan cadangan pembinaan kampus di Gelung Gajah, Machang yang dijangka siap dalam tempoh tiga tahun lagi.
Naib Presiden Limkokwing, Raja Aznil Raja Hisham berkata, kerajaan negeri telah menyediakan sebidang tanah seluas kira-kira lapan hektar untuk pembinaan kampus tersebut yang dijangka mampu menampung sehingga 10,000 pelajar.
Katanya, selain pendidikan teknologi kreatif, kampus itu turut mengutamakan pendidikan Islam kepada para pelajarnya.
"Ini adalah cara kami membangunkan bakat tempatan. Selain itu, Limkokwing sendiri memberi tumpuan kepada teknologi kreatif dan Pantai Timur adalah pusat kepada pelbagai jenis kebudayaan negara ini.
"Jadi kami rasa ini adalah masanya untuk membina kampus di Kelantan selepas universiti ini turut mengembangkan sayap ke luar negara," katanya ketika ditemui selepas pelancaran program Kelantan Design and Exhibiton di sini kelmarin.
Program tersebut dirasmikan Menteri Besar, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat. Sementara itu, Raja Aznil berkata, sebagai permulaan universiti itu akan membuka Akademi Kreatif dan Teknologi Kreatif di Wisma Yayasan Kelantan Darulnaim (Yakin) di sini yang akan memulakan kelasnya pada minggu pertama Mei ini.
"Seramai 200 pelajar Kelantan tajaan Yakin akan mendapat pendidikan daripada kita dan ini adalah langkah permulaan ke arah pembangunan Limkokwing di sini," ujarnya.
Prayer mat designed by LimKokWing, inspired by Nik Aziz
18 April 2012, Harakah Daily
The Limkokwing University of Creative Technology has come out with a Muslim prayer mat whose design has been inspired by Kelantan Menteri Besar Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.
Nik Aziz is said to have given his input on the design during his visit to the university not long ago.
Inaugrating the Kelantan Design dan Branding Exhibition today, an event jointly held by the Kelantan state government and LimKokWing, the university presented one thousand such prayer mats to Nik Aziz(pic), to be placed across mosques and suraus in the state.
Limkokwing vice president Raja Aznil Raja Syam recalled Nik Aziz's suggestion during his visit.
“During his visit to Limkokwing, he asked why its design faculty had not come out with a prayer mat design, because the ones in the market have complicated patterns that could affect one's concentration during prayer," he said.
LimKokWing, founded by renowned design consultant Dr Lim Kok Wing, began as a design college and now boasts of 30,000 students from 150 countries, with branch campuses in Asia, Africa and Europe.. Construction works for Limkokwing's Kelantan campus is expected to start next month in Machang.
