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9.6 HOSTEL UNIT

Politeknik Port Dickson (PPD) provides various facilities for the students who study here. Among the facilities provided
is accommodation in PPD hostels. PPD hostels can only accommodate students over 3,000 people. PPD hostels only
have the capacity to accommodate 1,580 which 692 places for male students (7 blocks) and 888 places for female
students (9 blocks). Others have to rent around the campus.

9.7 TRAINING AND ADVANCE EDUCATION UNIT

The Training and Advanced Education Unit is established in 1994. The Unit is managed by two Training and Advanced
Education officer and one clerk. The management of all activities will be helped by six officers from each academic
department and one from the Administrative Department. The Unit is responsible to administer, to organise and to
execute varities of staff training programmes to identify and to improve the competency of each staff.

9.8 INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT & MULTIMEDIA UNIT

Unit for Instructional Development and Multimedia (UIDM) functions as a supporting unit in providing teaching and
learning aids. Beside that, UIDM also provides audio, video, photo and graphics facilities for the PPD staffs to enable
them to conduct curricular activities as well as other official programmes within or outside the campus.

9.9 QUALITY MANAGEMENT UNIT

Politeknik Port Dickson implementing Quality Management System for Semi-Professional Training Grant process at
certificate and diploma in engineering and commerce to meet the vision and mission of the establishment of polytechnics
and national requirements based on ISO Standard 9001: 2000 which is now upgraded to MS ISO Standard 9001: 2008.

9.10 LIBRARY UNIT

Library Unit started at the same time Politeknik Port Dickson was built which was in the year 1990. It started its operation
on 1991. Services Offered are:

i) Borrowable collection
ii) Limited borrowable collection
iii) Reference book collection
iv) Magazines and paper collection
v) Examination questions collection
vi) Internet terminal
vii) CD ROM collection
viii) Resource centre (for students’ activities)
ix) Photostat centre (under supervision of Koperasi PPD Berhad)
x) Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)

9.11 PSYCHOLOGY AND CAREER UNIT

The Psychology and Career unit provides facilities where students are encouraged to maximise their potential. The unit
also aims to nurture good mental health among the students of PPD. The Psychology

9.12 SPORT & CO-CURRICULAR UNIT

Main function of Sport and Co-Curricular Unit is to administer and manage all non academic activities for the whole
semester including Polibridged activity which onvolves all first semester students. The unit also manages co-curriculum
activities for second semester students Polibridged and co-curriculam is students’ compulsory course.

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