Athersin
23-01-2009, 10:52 AM
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I am writing this in regret of so many enquiries by forummers here who are entering university late next week on how to appeal against receiving one of their 8 choices of course and university, but that choice being not one of their first 3 choices. Technically, you are not supposed to appeal against such a case because having made the 8 choices, given the current application system available, it shows that you have high or possible interest towards the choices you made, if not the least interest of all. How many times every year do we have to hear of these complaints and appeals when there are many others out there who are crying and wailing because their wishes to enter public universities are initially dashed and possibly again even after appealing and some of these people apparently have financial limitations to seek tertiary education in private institutions?
Frankly speaking, I may have to attribute this to the mindset and attitude of our Malaysian parents and students towards local universities and courses. We currently have about 18 public universities, excluding UiTM and UPNM, with various courses for everyone to select. There is a big pie of tertiary education for everyone to share with. But the current trend is that majority of the people of tend to grab the same slice of pie. UM is only famous by name because of its longstanding history being the first university in Malaysia. Don't tell me that everyone is not aware of UM's international rankings? Not even within the 100 best universities! UM's 2004 ranking within the 100 was due to a mistake that Malaysian Chinese and Indians are being categorized as China Chinese and India Indians. It has yet to reflect that UM has any comparable international quality!
Every university has its own expertise. I appeal to you all out there to do away with the mindset that this university and so-and-so is more famous. Undoubtedly UM, USM, UKM and UPM are being categorized by the Government as research universities. What about UTM? UTM has its also niche in the engineering field. In fact, Singapore takes some of UTM's graduates part of its workforce. And how about UMS and UNIMAS? Just because they are located in Sabah and Sarawak, the two states which are perceived being lacking in terms of development, doesn't mean UMS and UNIMAS does not have the expertise to provide tertiary education. These two universities have their own niche particularly in forestry! And UTHM and UMP? These two recently upgraded university colleges are historically linked to UTM (if I'm not mistaken, UMP was previously UTM's Pahang campus). Just because these newer universities are less heard of doesn't mean they don't have the expertise. It's only a matter of time that they can create their own niche, and to do that, it must have support from the students as well! But the most important of all, please bear in mind that you are entering university not just to learn specialized technical knowledge and expertise, but also to learn the true facts of life, learn how to fit in the true society and also learn effective communication and leadership skills. If everyone is entering the university just because of the namesake of that university, then probably UM might have to move out of its current campus because being located in the smaller size of the Federal Territory, UM's land is already very limited, not to even say about providing more places for students aspiring to enter UM. Many people often lament that universities are discriminating against students who got high grades but got universities of lower fame. But in reality, people are already discriminating against such universities in the first place. Now, is that even fair?!
Onto the courses. The courses are there because they have their local and international marketability. The world cannot just possibly depend entirely on just science, medicine, engineering, commerce and trade. There must also be courses available for research in the humanities field as well. Otherwise, how are we going to achieve a more improved society and improvise living conditions in the increasingly competitive world? Sad to say that the current mindset is that only these courses such-and-such have their marketability and able to bring in more money. Whether you are able to secure jobs within those perceived 'unpopular' fields of study has to depend on yourself and your abilities to secure them, not because they are unpopular. Even some who graduated from so-called more popular fields are still unable to secure jobs, not because of the field that they graduated from, but they themselves! Therefore, my advice is that if you get the course and university of your choice, please make the best out of it, because it's one of what you have chosen. If you are adamant of appealing against it, do not forget that there are also others who failed to be even granted of a tertiary education opportunity. To appeal against your own choice can be roughly equalled as robbing these people of their opportunities. Have faith with what you have chosen and make the best of it. Sometimes, it's just fate but be it good or bad, everyone has to face the test of creating their own opportunities out of it.
Whether you guys want to ponder on this or not, it's up to you. This is just only my piece of advice as a fresh graduate.
from :蔡偉傑 (柔佛麻坡仔)
马来西亚工艺大学化学工程系学士 (2004-2008) | 马来西亚工艺大学预科班毕业生 (2003-2004)
柔佛麻坡圣安德鲁国民中学生 (1998-2002) | 柔佛麻坡圣安德鲁国民小学生 (1992-1997)
曾经大学一年级时参加工升，但因为欲多注重在工大华文班教员的任务而退出工升。目前还仍然关心升学事务，以独立人士
I am writing this in regret of so many enquiries by forummers here who are entering university late next week on how to appeal against receiving one of their 8 choices of course and university, but that choice being not one of their first 3 choices. Technically, you are not supposed to appeal against such a case because having made the 8 choices, given the current application system available, it shows that you have high or possible interest towards the choices you made, if not the least interest of all. How many times every year do we have to hear of these complaints and appeals when there are many others out there who are crying and wailing because their wishes to enter public universities are initially dashed and possibly again even after appealing and some of these people apparently have financial limitations to seek tertiary education in private institutions?
Frankly speaking, I may have to attribute this to the mindset and attitude of our Malaysian parents and students towards local universities and courses. We currently have about 18 public universities, excluding UiTM and UPNM, with various courses for everyone to select. There is a big pie of tertiary education for everyone to share with. But the current trend is that majority of the people of tend to grab the same slice of pie. UM is only famous by name because of its longstanding history being the first university in Malaysia. Don't tell me that everyone is not aware of UM's international rankings? Not even within the 100 best universities! UM's 2004 ranking within the 100 was due to a mistake that Malaysian Chinese and Indians are being categorized as China Chinese and India Indians. It has yet to reflect that UM has any comparable international quality!
Every university has its own expertise. I appeal to you all out there to do away with the mindset that this university and so-and-so is more famous. Undoubtedly UM, USM, UKM and UPM are being categorized by the Government as research universities. What about UTM? UTM has its also niche in the engineering field. In fact, Singapore takes some of UTM's graduates part of its workforce. And how about UMS and UNIMAS? Just because they are located in Sabah and Sarawak, the two states which are perceived being lacking in terms of development, doesn't mean UMS and UNIMAS does not have the expertise to provide tertiary education. These two universities have their own niche particularly in forestry! And UTHM and UMP? These two recently upgraded university colleges are historically linked to UTM (if I'm not mistaken, UMP was previously UTM's Pahang campus). Just because these newer universities are less heard of doesn't mean they don't have the expertise. It's only a matter of time that they can create their own niche, and to do that, it must have support from the students as well! But the most important of all, please bear in mind that you are entering university not just to learn specialized technical knowledge and expertise, but also to learn the true facts of life, learn how to fit in the true society and also learn effective communication and leadership skills. If everyone is entering the university just because of the namesake of that university, then probably UM might have to move out of its current campus because being located in the smaller size of the Federal Territory, UM's land is already very limited, not to even say about providing more places for students aspiring to enter UM. Many people often lament that universities are discriminating against students who got high grades but got universities of lower fame. But in reality, people are already discriminating against such universities in the first place. Now, is that even fair?!
Onto the courses. The courses are there because they have their local and international marketability. The world cannot just possibly depend entirely on just science, medicine, engineering, commerce and trade. There must also be courses available for research in the humanities field as well. Otherwise, how are we going to achieve a more improved society and improvise living conditions in the increasingly competitive world? Sad to say that the current mindset is that only these courses such-and-such have their marketability and able to bring in more money. Whether you are able to secure jobs within those perceived 'unpopular' fields of study has to depend on yourself and your abilities to secure them, not because they are unpopular. Even some who graduated from so-called more popular fields are still unable to secure jobs, not because of the field that they graduated from, but they themselves! Therefore, my advice is that if you get the course and university of your choice, please make the best out of it, because it's one of what you have chosen. If you are adamant of appealing against it, do not forget that there are also others who failed to be even granted of a tertiary education opportunity. To appeal against your own choice can be roughly equalled as robbing these people of their opportunities. Have faith with what you have chosen and make the best of it. Sometimes, it's just fate but be it good or bad, everyone has to face the test of creating their own opportunities out of it.
Whether you guys want to ponder on this or not, it's up to you. This is just only my piece of advice as a fresh graduate.
from :蔡偉傑 (柔佛麻坡仔)
马来西亚工艺大学化学工程系学士 (2004-2008) | 马来西亚工艺大学预科班毕业生 (2003-2004)
柔佛麻坡圣安德鲁国民中学生 (1998-2002) | 柔佛麻坡圣安德鲁国民小学生 (1992-1997)
曾经大学一年级时参加工升，但因为欲多注重在工大华文班教员的任务而退出工升。目前还仍然关心升学事务，以独立人士