Hi guys! This thread has pretty much cleared 90% of my doubt. *thumbs up*.
Anyway, I will be pursuing Master of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics in La Trobe University next year (Feb 2011) if everything gets done smoothly. I am left with the visa application.

Welcome to Australia Research House

This is dedicated to my friends in Malaysia who's been asking me how's life in Australia......

Basically, it has been a life changing experience. Not only have I met all sorts of people, experience all kinds of situations, I even went through many painful but Very rewarrding hardships!

I guess because Australia gives you the freedom to be what you want to be, whether study hard for school with great guidance and quality lecturers, or work hard with proffessional training, going around for adventures like surfing, hiking, even snowboarding!

You can practically work and play at the same time because the pay here is enough for you to that! or you can be like me save up and spend in Malaysia =D!!

Anyways, for dear friends, this is how i got to australia..........

I contact the australia local agency call Brightannica student agency, the following link is their website


Brightannica student Agency,

www.brightannica.com

They are quite efficient with their work and I practically didn't have to do anything but to just sent my documents and details that they asked for.
They are actually quite friendly, they even advice me on accommodation and everything like that.....


Anyways, hope it helps k....

Hope to see you guys soon ^^

Very advertisement orientated, you cover it up well, I must say.

Thanks guy, i guess it did look somewhat like an advertisement. ^^"

but still hoping to improve marketing in the forum..... and encouraging people to come to Australia.

I would truly like to share what i know with people interested in coming to australia though, so

please believe when i say this is not for business purposes but in spirits of enjoying writting in a forum.

a lot of malaysians are studying in australia now.
but i still prefer uk.
i guess europe is much more appealing.

I used to think that too, but considering europe's economy right now, it might be tough for students to survive up there comparing to down here.... so says my friend who's currently studying in london right now and earning only 8 pounds an hour but i am not too sure about what he say myself.

I need the only thing that i can compare btw aus and europe is the distance, cause 8 hours is definately better than 20 hours(estimate)

The European economy though having problems with sovereign debt is still robust. We are talking about some of the richest countries in the world, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway etc. Further, there are more opportunities in Europe than in Australia. That is a fact.

Survival is relative, things costs more in Australia. While one earns 8 quids an hour, a sandwich only costs about 3 pounds at M&S food. You can earn A$13 an hour but a cup of coffee on Swanston street can send you back A$6. So what is the basis of comparison here?

It takes about 7-8 hrs to fly to Melbourne, and 12-13 hrs to London. . Not too much of a difference. 20hrs of direct flight time will send you to the US.

I hope this thread is merged with studying in Aus v3.1

else it will be another marketing ~

It's kinda obvious this is an advertising attempt for the website =P
some more posted in the studying in Australia v3.1 thread with about almost the same words.
Seen a few places uses this kind of method for advertising so much already =D
Do you have some office somewhere in Malaysia?
Though I'd still rather go to IDP or my College's placement center ^^

This post has been edited by Hikari0307: Sep 28 2010, 12:17 AM

From the main rules and regulations: From the Education Essentials sub-forum rules:
Ignorance of any law is never an excuse or a defense. Nothing we are doing here has never been done. If you do your homework, you will realise that much of the information you seek has been documented in the past.

1. Well. I think its time to refresh the first page of the thread includes those Legal Agent IDP...
2. Impose Copyright as companies may try to hijack information & duplicate it for their business services purpose.
3. Topic Tittle/Subcategory: Create a sub-category for Studying in Australia > which few University like Monash under it & others related. So any issues & education related just in this category.Its better in the way that this thread basically doesnt fall behind few pages of thread.

Just a proposal.

I am very reluctant to put up ANY links to commercial entities which relate to education. Have you forgotten the stupid charade when members [="@k£LwIN@"=] and oceanblue123 came in with their "introduction support services".

Today it is IDP. Tomorrow its someone running a service between the airport and the CBD. Next thing you know people are offering their services for "assignment proof-reading". So where do you stop? Or do you want the front page nothing more but a collection of links?

I have made my stance clear on education agents, and experiences shared in the multiple versions of the Studying in Australia threads only serve to reinforce my low opinion of them.


Proposal rejected. Copyright is far more complicated than a line of text with the © logo. At most I would use a Creative Commons license, but I personally prefer it to be a something akin to the GPL, where people can modify and improve it, rather than it being static.

Claiming copyright (which I do not, as much of the information comes from many members, both past and present) of any of the material in the Studying in Australia threads is one thing. Being able to enforce the "Copyright" (note upper case) is completely another matter. There is no point "Impos[ing] Copyright" when there is no way of enforcing it when "companies [..] try to hijack information & duplicate it for their business services purpose."
I cannot understand this proposal. Reword it if you are serious in having it considered.

Speaking of education agents and IDP, IDP told me to pay them ,my university fees as well as the OSHC fees in order to accept my offer.

Is it good idea to do that (it is a lot of money to be given to an agent )?
I mean, will I run into problems with the university later on if I pay my tuition fees at IDP?

lol what do you mean by you pay to IDP? What did they say to you specifically?
Usually to accept your offer indeed you would need to pay some tuition fees deposit (usually your first sem or a part of it) and OSHC though this payment is not made payable to the agent though they will help forward it to the University. Usually IDP will ask you to buy a bank-draft payable to the University along with your acceptance form or fill in your credit card details on the acceptance form and they will forward that to the University on your behalf.

This post has been edited by Hikari0307: Sep 30 2010, 01:59 PM

She told me , you pay the first sem fees here.

oh i see, I think I misunderstood them.
Thanks for the clarification,

erm i wanna know trinity college better or taylors college ? coz im going to apply for foundation next week and i still dono which to choose haha.. after foundation i might be going UTAS if i plan to stdy naval architect if civil engineer i stay at melb to continue haha.. thx in a million!

This post has been edited by nhb555: Oct 4 2010, 01:06 AM

1) Read the front page first. Ask vague questions, and you'll get vague answers.

2) What do you intent to study in these places (if any) to use as an entrance qualification to enter university?

foundation is to enter university. only UTAS and UNSW offer naval architect . Im gonna do foundation 1st in melbourne coz to many place to consider . haha. I intent to study in these place coz my dad said to let me see the outside world so next time do business easier haha..

go check out the structures of their programmes and which one you feel you are more comfartable with as the Foundation programmes offered in Taylor's and Trinity are for different Universities and have different structures.