A New vision of education
As with almost everything he does, Tan Sri Lim did not follow the traditional rules in providing education. He broke the norms and pioneered different pathways which changed the ways in which knowledge is delivered and acquired.
He brought the world into the classroom and he brought his classrooms into the world. He wanted his students to graduate with qualifications which they can take anywhere in the world and he achieved it through networking with some of the most established universities around the world, universities renowned for their specialisations. Through his university, he seeks to change the way people think and the way they look at things.
The future, he believes, has always been driven by people with the determination to go where no one has been and do things no one has done, to follow the path less travelled.
He translates his conviction into action and chooses to develop his university into an international centre for innovation and capacity-building which will train thinking and tech-savvy industry-ready human capital for developing countries.
He is acutely aware of the much-quoted statistic that 85 percent of the world’s population living in developing countries gets by on only 20 percent of the world’s resources - because these countries have little capacity to innovate and create opportunities.
By designing his university as a creative destination for the developing world, he aims to empower people with the skills, the knowledge and particularly the mindset essential to drive the transformation of developing countries into innovative nations.