WEDNESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER – Tahammas Group of the Bursar Department, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) created history once again when they were named the recipient for the Gold Award when representing Sabah and Sarawak Regional Zone at the National Excellence Team Convention held at the Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre (SPCC), recently.

Tahammas group who competed in the Creative and Innovative Group Category (KIK) presented a project entitled ‘Inaccurate High Mileage Claims for Within and Outside of the country’.

At the convention, a total of 218 groups competed in the Team Excellence competition in certain categories such as public sector, service sector, QE/5S sector, manufacturing sector as well as electrical and electronics sector.

According to the Leader of the group, Suzie Mohamed, before being selected to represent at the national level, the group also won the Gold Award at the Sabah and the Sabah and Sarawak Regional Team Excellence Convention  in April and August respectively.

Meanwhile, Acting Bursar of UMS, Zallifah Shadan who attended the convention said the management of UMS was very proud of Tahammas who represented the Sabah and Sarawak zone and brought honour to UMS at the national arena.

“I hope the success of Tahammas would inspire many other Team Excellence groups in the Bursar Department to come up with new ideas and innovation,” she said.

The prize and certificate was presented by the Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry (MITI), Datuk Lee Chee Leong. (fl)

Source: Bursar Department, UMS