KUALA LUMPUR – Youth and Sports Ministry Secretary-General K. Nagulendran said he believes programmes such as the Malaysia Future Leaders School (MFLS) will invigorate the spirit of leadership within the youth.
At the 2023 MFLS Tier Three closing ceremony at the International Youth Centre, Nagulendran said he hopes the 150 students that completed the programme from May 5 to May 19 have learned valuable lessons.
“From the report that I received, it shows that all the participants were active throughout the programme.
“I hope they have learned a lot and hopefully with more programmes like this we can develop to become a better country moving forward,” he said.
The 150 participants comprise the best partakers from the MFLS Tier Two programme in 2020, 2021, and 2022 and were selected through a screening process and interviews nationwide from March 17 to 21.
They were selected out of 2,497 others during the screening process for Tier Three, which was thinned from 18,357 participants from Tier Two in 2022.
A national programme under the ministry and the Institute of Leadership Development and Excellence, it was meant to replace the National Service Training Programme and Biro Tatanegara, which combines high-impact internal and external activities.
The MFLS Tier Three programme aims to increase the knowledge and understanding of its participants based on their leadership, character and identity, patriotism, entrepreneurship, volunteerism, communication, and internationalisation.
“I am very proud of all their achievements, and we have surely achieved the target of the programme.
“We are all leaders within, but programmes like these can help invigorate the spirit of leadership in the youth,” said Nagulendran.
During the duration of the programme, the participants were involved in various activities such as talks with guest speakers, high-performance communications, a sports carnival, volunteerism, agency outreach, and a Parliament visit.
The programme also had collaborations with the Institute for Youth Research Malaysia, Sepang International Circuit, Bursa Malaysia, Telekom Malaysia, Proton, Celcom, Plus Malaysia, Malaysia Airlines Bhd, and Astro Awani.
Previously, MFLS Tier One had involved a screening process to select eligible candidates to be brought into Tier Two where they were engaged in indoor and outdoor programmes for five days at Wawasan Negara camps across the nation. – The Vibes, May 18, 2023
