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Service-learning has been implemented in teaching and learning pedagogical approaches as the modern way to integrate theoretical obtained in the classroom into practices in real-world situations. Hence, the Ministry of Higher Education has introduced Service Learning Malaysia University for Society (SULAM) in 2019 was to demonstrate a multidimensional concept that embraces curriculum and co-curriculum of pedagogical approaches to service and educational opportunities through Malaysia Education Blue Print 2015-2025 (for Higher Education) to produce holistic graduates who are entrepreneurial and balanced. Therefore, this study focuses on the impacts of implementing SULAM programme in public university toward the students in term of i) knowledge and understanding, ii) functional work skills, and iii) ethics and professionalism after they conducted and carried out the service-learning project with the community. This study was designed based on a quantitative approach administrated to the 352 respondents from different faculties at Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP). Data were collected through questionnaires and analysed using SPSS to identify the impacts of implementing SULAM programme towards the student. The findings of this study uncovered that there were positive impacts of implementing SULAM programme integrate with student’s academic curriculum such as the students were able to utilize the knowledge and have deeper understanding conducting service-learning projects under SULAM programme with the community, the students managed to improve and empowered their functional work skills after successfully carried out the projects involved the community, and lastly the students proudly can facilitate themselves to perform outstanding ethics and professionalism while they conducting service-learning projects under SULAM programme in the public university. The implementation of SULAM programme was made successful in UniMAP through the involvement of the service-learning ecosystem consisted the students, lecturers, faculties, communities, agencies and industries. |
