IPREA and UPD welcome UM Malaysian students

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

On May 18 to 24, 2009, a group of 57 Malaysian students with 4 facilitator-professors of the University of Malaya (Department of Estate Management of the Faculty of Built Environment) will visit Manila - Philippines. The academic trip to the Philippines is part of their course curriculum known as “Integration Project”. They will be hosted cooperatively by the Institute of Philippine Real Estate Appraisers (IPREA) and the Department of Geodetic Engineering, College of Engineering of the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD).



The “Integrated Project” is a special project for Estate Management students, that is Problem Based Learning (PBL) based. Students are divided into several groups (this year -10 groups with 5 members each), given lectures and taken to different site visits each year. A facilitator is assigned to three groups of students. The learning outcome of the project would encompass students’ acquisition of practical knowledge in their preparation to join the real estate practice. Students are expected to fully apply all the subjects that they have learned, complemented with their own ideas and some choice inputs from facilitators.
Among the government /corporate offices that will be visited for research and information are the following: National Housing Authority (NHA); Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB); Land Registration Authority (LRA); Home Mutual Development Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund); Housing Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC); National Economic Development Authority (NEDA).

Ten valuation sites within Metropolitan Manila have been identified. The visits to the various property sites will be coordinated by IPREA valuers.

UPD and IPREA welcome the students of The University of Malaya (UM) with a program ceremony at the UP Engineering Theater, College of Engineering, UP Campus Diliman on May 19, 2009 at 08:30 Hrs.