Part-time tutor jobs for UMS students at Teluk Sepanggar: teach secondary and Form 6 learners in Likas, Inanam and central Kota Kinabalu, or online from your residential college. Undergraduates from the science, engineering, medicine and business faculties cover the SPM and STPM subjects these schools prepare for.
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The BAS.MY S01 and S02 circular links Jalan UMS with 1 Borneo Hypermall and KK Sentral, so evening lessons in the city stay within reach.
Science and Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences, and Business, Economics and Accountancy map straight onto the SPM and STPM papers learners sit.
SMK Kolombong, SMK Tebobon and SMKA Tun Ahmadshah sit around Inanam, a short ride from Sepanggar, with Form 4 and 5 learners preparing for SPM.
These subjects follow the strengths of UMS faculties and the SPM and STPM papers that learners at Likas, Inanam and city schools prepare for.
Tahun 1 to Tingkatan 6 路 RM50鈥揜M150/hr
Tahun 1 to Tingkatan 6 路 RM50鈥揜M150/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M170/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M170/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M160/hr
Tingkatan 6 (STPM) + Cambridge A-Level 路 RM70鈥揜M180/hr
Tingkatan 4-5 路 RM60鈥揜M160/hr
Tingkatan 6 / Pre-University 路 RM80鈥揜M200/hr
Fill in the short form on your phone between lectures at Jalan UMS.
A short screening covers your background and the subjects your faculty at UMS built up.
We pair you with learners in Likas, Inanam, Telipok or in online sessions.
Teach in Likas and Inanam homes or online from your college, around the semester.
Studying at another Malaysian campus? Edustar also recruits tutors from these universities.
UM 路 Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur
UKM 路 Bangi, Selangor
USM 路 Minden / Gelugor, Pulau Pinang
UPM 路 Serdang, Selangor
UTM 路 Skudai, Johor Bahru
UiTM 路 Shah Alam, Selangor
IIUM 路 Gombak, Selangor
Taylor's 路 Subang Jaya, Selangor
Sunway University 路 Bandar Sunway, Selangor
Monash Malaysia 路 Bandar Sunway, Selangor
MMU 路 Cyberjaya, Selangor
UNIMAS 路 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak
UNITEN 路 Kajang, Selangor
UMT 路 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu
UMK 路 Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan
Nottingham Malaysia 路 Semenyih, Selangor
Learners near Sepanggar live in Likas, Inanam, Telipok, Menggatal and central Kota Kinabalu.
Programmes at Sepanggar line up neatly with the upper-secondary KSSM papers. A student reading Industrial Chemistry or Biotechnology already works daily with the mole concept, organic reactions and cell biology that fill SPM Chemistry and Biology. Physics with Electronics majors handle the mechanics, waves and electricity chapters of SPM Physics with ease, and those same topics return in greater depth for STPM candidates in Form 6.
Engineering and Computing and Informatics undergraduates suit Mathematics and Additional Mathematics, where a learner needs functions, quadratics and differentiation laid out one line at a time. Food Science and Nutrition students, along with those in Medicine and Health Sciences, make the SPM Biology chapters on nutrition, respiration and the human body concrete. Accountancy and economics students carry STPM Economics, with microeconomics, macroeconomics and applied economics spread across the three terms of Form 6.
English draws tutors from every faculty on campus. Anyone who writes assignments and presents seminars in English at UMS can coach SPM English essays, summary writing and speaking practice, and the same tutor fits a MUET candidate preparing for university entry.
Lecture timetables at UMS group classes into blocks, which leaves several afternoons and most evenings open. Secondary school in Kota Kinabalu finishes in the early afternoon, so a Form 4 or Form 5 learner is home and ready for a lesson by late afternoon. That window suits a tutor who leaves a lab session mid-afternoon and heads toward Likas or Inanam.
A workable week might hold two weekday evening lessons close to campus, one online session from the residential college on another night, and a Saturday morning slot with a Form 5 learner in Telipok or Menggatal. Sunday stays clear for group projects, lab reports and reading ahead for the next lecture.
Online lessons carry the nights when a tutorial runs late or heavy rain slows the roads into the city. From a desk in the residential college, the tutor shares a stylus screen or points a webcam down at a notebook, works through a past-year SPM question with the learner and is back at coursework within the hour. Edustar runs the video platform for every session, while the laptop or phone, the Wi-Fi in the college block and the stylus belong to the tutor.
UMS students come from Tawau, Sandakan, Keningau, Kudat, Sarawak and the peninsula, and the long break between semesters takes many of them home. The online lane lets their lessons travel along. A tutor teaching a Kota Kinabalu learner keeps the same evening slot from a hometown in Lahad Datu or Miri, on the same Malaysian time, with the same learner and the same plan.
Home lessons that depend on the BAS.MY routes pause cleanly for the break. The tutor tells Edustar which weeks fall away, the learner hears the plan in advance, and the weekly rhythm picks up again once the new semester timetable is out.
The break is also a good season to grow. With lectures paused, a tutor at home has mornings free for an STPM candidate revising Economics or a learner starting Form 5 Chemistry. When classes resume at Sepanggar, the tutor keeps the learners the new timetable can hold and Edustar matches the rest with another tutor.
The first offer tends to match the strongest part of the tutor profile: Form 4 Chemistry for an Industrial Chemistry student, SPM Mathematics for an engineering undergraduate, STPM Economics for someone in the business faculty. Starting inside a familiar subject lets the new tutor focus on teaching craft from the first lesson.
Early sessions are spent learning the learner. The tutor reads the latest school test, any PBD comments from the subject teacher and a few past-year SPM or STPM questions the learner has attempted, then maps where marks slip. Weak topics move to the front of the plan, and familiar ones become quick warm-ups.
Around week three, the UMS tutor drafts a written progress update for the learner, with a copy to whoever arranged the lessons. That update lists which chapter is finished, which kind of question still loses marks, and what the next two weeks are aiming at. Every learner is covered by a free tutor replacement, granted whenever they ask, so a UMS tutor always teaches a learner who chose to stay.
By the second month the lesson settles into a fixed slot that sits on the tutor's week like another class at UMS. Lesson plans grow into a personal bank of worked examples, and that bank serves every learner who follows.
Yes. Students at Kolej Kediaman Tun Mustapha, Tun Fuad and Excellent teach online sessions from their rooms. Those housed at Kingfisher, 1Borneo, Ecopark or Alamesra reach learners in Likas and Inanam for home lessons.
BAS.MY Kota Kinabalu runs the S01 and S02 circular between KK Sentral, Jalan UMS and 1 Borneo Hypermall about every 18 minutes. Buses run from early morning to late evening, and ManjaLink or a contactless bank card pays the fare.
Learners at SMK Likas, SMK Inanam and SMJK Lok Yuk Likas prepare for SPM Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. All Saints Secondary runs Form 6, so STPM Economics suits students from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy.
The load is yours to set: how many learners, which evenings, which weekends. Cut back during cuti ulang kaji and the final exam weeks, then pick learners up again when lectures restart.
Apply from your room at UMS, complete your tutor profile, then teach learners in Likas, Inanam or online between lectures.