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Pintar College is a professional accounting, business, early childhood education and new media school, located at Kepong, Kuala Lumpur and Rawang. Our President Founder, Dr Jimmy, has established Pintar College with a group of professional lecturers and academicians who have many years of teaching experience. We hope to serve the best education to everyone.”

President Founder’s Background

Dr Jimmy Lim (full name: Lim Siau Shiong), born on 19th January 1972, is a Malaysian educationist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the President Founder of Sri Pintar Education Group.

Dr Jimmy is renowned for his effort and contribution towards his passion for education. He is awarded the LCCI Fellowship from Pearson in 2015. He is also awarded as National Outstanding Educator by Kementerian Pendidikan Tinggi (KPT) during National Teacher’s Day in 2019. In 2020, he is being listed in ‘Successful People in Malaysia’.

Dr Jimmy started his education career by giving tuition to his peers when he was just a student. It was during his Form 2 till Form 5 (SPM), he studied at school in the morning and then in the afternoon, he started his work at the plastic factory. During night-time, he provided tuition for primary school students for the subjects of Mandarin language and Mathematics. In mid-1990, he was no longer working at the plastics factory and he began his tuition career as a home tutor by teaching Form 4 and Form 5 students charging them at RM15 per month.

Dr Jimmy followed his passion despite the lack of support. In 1991, when Jimmy was pursuing his Form 6 study, the number of his students has increased drastically to approximately 100 – 200 students. With that, he then decided to rent a house to conduct his tuition classes.

In 1996, Jimmy was then employed as a marketing manager for a furniture factory and led a group of young people to start a new journey. However, economic decline drastically, he then stopped his job. During night-time, Jimmy continued with his tuition class from 6.30 pm to 10.30 pm.

In 1999, he met his first partner, Madam Lim and they established Pintar Tuition Centre together. Dr Jimmy achieve his major milestone when his students won World and Country awards in LCCI. He is then established Pintar College in 2007.

Through the years, Dr Jimmy has educated many students with weak results in SPM to achieve higher in their education and career. One of his students, Lee Kuan Yew, who failed in SPM, after he met Dr. Jimmy Lim, he got an outstanding result in his accountancy academy and now has become an accountant and entrepreneur who owns an accounting firm. Besides that, with his teaching guidance, his students have successfully achieved more than twenty (20) World and Country Awards in LCCI International Qualification.

It is in Dr Jimmy’s chapter of story that he embarked on a new mission by providing a high education quality to all of the students with affordable fees because he believes that every student has the opportunity to study and then to transform their life into a better future.

He started to provide free talks and seminars to secondary schools and become a mentor for many school accounting teachers in Malaysia. Dr Jimmy has been invited for more than 1,000 talks by many schools as the guest speaker for Motivation, Career, Accountancy, SPM Perakaunan workshops/ talks and SPM answering technique. He is also appointed as strategic partner of Pejabat Pendidikan Daerah Sentul, Keramat, Sibu, Gombak, Bangsar dan Pudu, to provide trainings to school teachers and seminars for students. He is then successfully increased the number of students who achieved grade A in SPM Prinsip Perakaunan and increased the passing rate in many districts within Malaysia.

In 2020, Dr Jimmy published his own SPM Accounting books, 7,000 books are sold in a short period of 2 weeks. Pintar College also obtains the Gold Approved Learning Partner for ACCA and was awarded the Centre of Excellence Award from 2015 until 2020.

In 2020, Dr Jimmy has been conducting more than 100 online workshops for many schools within Malaysia to improve the students’ accounting knowledge during the period of Movement Control Order. Dr Jimmy also collaborating with many charitable organisations, schools and government parties to provide financial support to students from low-income families in completing their higher education.

It is proud that he has made his business growing rapidly from a tuition center teacher to become an owner of a college, childcare center, skill academy, tuition center and many companies. Dr Jimmy also holds many memberships as follow:

(1) Malaysian Institution of Accountancy (MIA)

(2) London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Fellowship

(3) Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

(4) Chartered Institute of Management Accountant (CIMA)

(5) Yang Dipertua Persatuan Ibu Bapa dan Guru (PIBG) SMK Menjalara

(6) Committee member of Alumni SMK Kepong Baru

(7) Committee member of Alumni SMK Jinjang

Dr Jimmy holds a few reasons for success to become the person he is today. One of the reasons is he never gives up and he gives consistency to his passion. Besides that, he believes in teamwork and love. Finally, he is always an opportunity seeker and keeps his promise.

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