"Registered Safety and Health Officers need to renew their licence every three years. They can do so by collecting points through training or by attending courses. They need 90 points to renew their licence."

You can now learn about everything and anything virtually. Thus, learning is unlimited and no longer restricted within the four walls of a classroom.

“Manakala program pengajian tinggi pula melibatkan tujuh banduan muda dan hanya dilaksanakan di Sekolah Integriti Kajang dengan kerjasama Universiti Malaya (UM) serta Universiti Terbuka Malaysia (OUM),” terang beliau.

OUM, the nation's first open and distance learning institution established in 2000, has registered more than 100,000 students so far and aims to register at least 130,000 by 2015.

"I use management skills learnt at OUM to improve on my work process. I now know how to conduct research and carry out proper nursing management," he says, adding that he intends to sign up for a master's programme in nursing in the next two years.

“Ia terbuka kepada mereka yang berumur 18 tahun ke atas dengan minimum tamat Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) dan paling penting peserta juga akan mendapat kad matrik OUM yang membolehkan mereka mengakses kemudahan perpustakaan di mana-mana kampus OUM di seluruh negara,” katanya ketika ditemui sempena Pameran Usahawan dan Inovasi Eilmu di Kuala Lumpur, baru-baru ini

Senarai ranking universiti di Malaysia ini dinilai pada beberapa aspek yang dilihat agak relevan yang mampu mencerminkan kualiti global dan penyelidikan di seluruh dunia bagi tahap yang lebih baik. Antaranya ialah Size, Visibility, Research papers & Scholars.

Satu Memorandum Perjanjian antara IPD-OUM, Rotterdam Business School (RBS) dan PortsWorld, dimeterai di Kuala Lumpur, baru-baru ini.

OUM berpengalaman mengendalikan program pendidikan jarak jauh, oleh itu kerjasama strategik ini membolehkan MKM bertukar pengalaman secara terus sebagai persediaan mengendalikan program e-PJJ sendiri yang berkesan pada masa depan.

Most of OUM’s learners who applied through APEL are now pursuing a business degree, as their backgrounds are in business, says Tan Sri Anuwar. But OUM does not place restrictions on what programmes the applicants can take, except those governed by professional bodies like nursing, for example. If their experience allows it, and they are so inclined, the applicants are open to any degree they aspire to.