KUALA LUMPUR: Pearson VUE, a computer-based certification and licensure examination supply supplier, has launched a Pearson Professional Centre (PPC) in Malaysia, providing “gold-standard” testing amenities to deal with the rising demand for secure certification exams in the nation.
Pearson VUE vice-president for Australia and Southeast Asia Craig McFarlane acknowledged that many business sectors in Malaysia are present process speedy professionalisation.
“With the digital financial system being one of many fastest-growing sectors in the nation, alongside the nation’s fame for innovation, we’re dedicated to offering native certification our bodies with extremely secure, ‘gold-standard’ testing,” he mentioned on the launch at the moment.
The PPC is designed and constructed particularly for the aim of testing with a multi-layered strategy to examination safety. It supplies safety measures together with id administration/ID checks (together with palm vein recognition expertise), signature pads, digicam protection in your complete facility, proctors with a direct line of sight and digicam view, and lockers for test-takers.
Pearson VUE principal psychometrician Dr Edward Feng Li mentioned organisations require more and more strong evaluation strategies to make sure the capabilities of testing candidates and to safeguard the credibility of their certification or license.
“We sit up for working with main establishments in Malaysia in advancing and optimising their examination programmes – supporting their enlargement into new worldwide markets,” he mentioned.
Pearson VUE launched its gold normal in check safety in 2002 and has since expanded check supply globally to five,600 check facilities in greater than 180 nations.
The PPC is situated contained in the Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers (AICB) Centre of Excellence to extend entry to high-stakes worldwide certifications for Malaysians. The launch was attended by AICB representatives as nicely as native enterprise and different dignitaries, together with Britain’s Deputy High Commissioner to Malaysia, David Wallace.
AICB chief government Edward Ling mentioned the partnership with Pearson VUE is central to its mission of making a banking and monetary providers workforce geared up with the capability and capabilities to face the challenges of a quickly evolving business.
“AICB advocates the best ranges {of professional} conduct and competence in our members, and we’re happy to work with a worldwide expertise accomplice that can help us on this mission by pioneering state-of-the-art testing amenities which uphold the integrity of our assessments in delivering our certifications,” he mentioned.
