Born Mohamed Yunus Raiss Mohd Isah , the educationist, who was among six teachers selected to set up Sekolah Dato’ Abdul Razak or SDAR here in 1957, would be conferred the Honorary Doctorate in Education for his immense contributions towards the country’s education sector especially in the teaching of English.
Datuk Yunus Raiss died at the age of 84 at the University College Hospital London. -NSTP/Zaharah Othmanlearnt that Swan and his wife, Sherry, have arrived in the country to attend the ceremony that would be opened by Raja Permaisuri of Perak, Tuanku Zara Salim, who is UPSI’s Chancellor. From being an illiterate 15-year-old, Yunus, who was an assistant tailor at the time, persevered and rose to become a magistrate at West London Court in 1991 as well as principal and proprietor of a college he founded in London.
In 1954, Yunus was awarded a teacher training scholarship to study in Kirkby near Liverpool. Popularly known as Kirkby College, it was set up in 1951 to address the shortage of teachers in Malaya and it trained some 1,500 teachers over a period of 10 years. In between 1963 and 2014, Yunus enrolled himself in several diploma and degrees courses, which included applied linguistic, critical legal practice as well as philosophy and human rights, at universities in the UK.
“Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Rumi, Omar Khayam, Yeats, Thomas Hardy, W.H. Davies, Wendy Cope, my teachers and friends – have all had some influence on my work.
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