V3 already, congrats congrats!!

I think the main page needs to be updated.

More courses should go under Jan intake, not to mention that there are a few new courses already.

If you are new to the university, or have yet to stay in the hostel ever, and are interested in staying on-campus, one should apply to Pioneer or PK. For what I know, all existing residents will be chased out except Jan intake and foundation students (and Taught Master students as well I think). So, there will be a lot of beds available for newbie. Just apply, and trust me! I have inside info but I don't want to disclose too much.

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Added on April 12, 2010, 12:29 amDid ask Yousif about this?
For what I know, as long as you did 12-weeks, and complete a report of n pages, and also fulfilling other requirements, your internship will be valid.
Ask Yousif for the best confirmation.

This post has been edited by tanjinjack: Apr 12 2010, 12:29 AM

More rumoured bad news about accommodation.
Before that, fact on the internet.

You get a 128kbps connection free in your stay. You need to do your registration at the internet office then everything will be fine. You may, opt for the 512kbps or 768kbps package, of which, you will be charged more. Depending entirely on you, if may be worth to get those packages. But, bare in mind, P2P doesn't work, and you might struggle to grab the line with any other possible rapidshare/megaupload/hotfile users. (IMHO, no download will be the best.)

And, I have been hearing this, although this remains unconfirmed. All of the rooms may install a electric meter to monitor your usage of electricity (see, they like your money so much). There will be 2 outcomes. First will be the worst, anything you use, you pay it. Or, maybe, there will be a limit, like how they do it on the air-con unit. You have a credit, when you use that up, you need to pay what you use extra. This seems like a measure for them to counter any usage of portable air-con and also the minibar fridge. It's not confirmed yet and I do not know if it will get implemented or not. But, get a way to solve your fridge/air-con if this ever gets implemented.

For what I know, the university is taking over the management of the accommodation. There is a new accommodation office in the SA building. And Pioneer and Perintis will sort of serve as an agent that just take cares of the cleaning chores etc. I am not sure where would the students paying the rental to though.

Okay, mechanical Year 2 here.
What do you mean by "what is being done in other establishments"? For what I know, those milling and lathe machines, everyone will get a chance, and will have to do it. There will be a sort of tutorials session that you have to attend to learn to use those machines in the 1st semester. And on your 1st year 2nd semester, and subsequently your 2nd year, you will need to do fabrication, which is part of your project in your course.
And about teaching, well, I have to warn you, in some ways. 09/10 is the new batch of students who undergo the new course structure. It now follows TIGHTLY to the UK system. Is this something good or bad? It depends on you. But for what I see, it is making life a lot harder compared to my batch (08/09). Just to scare you a bit. Each year, we take 120 credits, where in most courses, most years, it's equally divided on a 60/60 basis, or maybe 50/70, 70/50 basis. But, for mechanical Year 1, it's divided into... 20/100. Only 20 credits will be assessed in the 1st sem but a whopping 100 credits on the 2nd sem. Why? Because a lot of the modules have combined together and become a year long module. Can be good, can be bad.

No lo.. 1st year very cham lo.. 20/100 like that. Feel so glad I join you all on January, no need suffer. The format for their subjects also change, got MCQ le, and got a lot short questions like last time de Solid 1.

I want to write out, my feeling, my thoughts about the on-campus accommodation. It could be long, but worth a BIG read if you will be staying on-campus. Whatever I say, stands valid for Pioneer Century, and not for Perintis Kencana.

Okay, I like it a lot, because it is very convenient. It takes short time to go to classes and raining is not an issue for you at any time of the days because you can go to all places of university shaded.

But, if I like the on-campus accommodation is given by L. Then My hatred towards it will be H=L^2, for L>100 at least.

First, they suck money. They don't think about us. All they think is money. Just look at the rental. A small room in nowhere out of a jungle is charged at KL rate. And the room has sub-standard furniture and poor ventilation system. If you do not have air-con, the room could be an oven, but even it can snow outside, I am sure it won't be a freezer. It's hot, in short.
If you happen to pay late the rental, which is set on 7th of each month, you will be charged 5% more, without a way of negotiation.

They love to give notice that give them money in a more secret way instead of a more easy way of email. During the transition from 2009 to 2010, many people is expected to come back after 7th January. They are aware of it, thus they put up a notice. But it's right outside their office, which is located in one hall. And I will say, even if you stay in that Tioman Hall, chances are you won't go and read it, not to say those staying in Langkawi and Redang. It makes life a lot harder because the only time you will be visiting their office, is when you pay up your rental.

The bed, the chairs they provide, they don't clean it, at least for my time. I don't dare to rotate my bed either top to bottom, front to back, because all the other surfaces couldn't be used. I asked them to clean for me. They gave me a thin sheet to cover. That's when I am checking in. And I still have to pay for the expensive rental at the high price.

Yes, they do provide cleaning service to you. You need to request each time you want your room cleaned and you can only do it once every week. The trick is, you must get your room cleaned on the 1st or 2nd session. If not, you are requesting them to 'dirty' your room. It has been my observation that, they don't make sure their tools are clean to clean. So, the dirt and whatever from the 1st session carries to the 2nd, then to the 3rd, so on and so forth. Do you ever experience a cleaning that is dirtier than before? Try Pioneer Century.

It took them a month to fix my water heater. And the fix they did, is..... to change the switch. The one you 'pik' 'pak' in your home that shows the red light, indicating it's on or off. It has NOTHING to do with the water heater unit, just that, and it took one month. I emailed the boss, he gave me cold answer, and said it's my fault for not following up. And I told him I followed up so tightly because I couldn't bear cold water in the morning and the boss went off somewhere in the jungle, no where to be tracked from email, ignoring me at all. Oh ya, he gave a reason of "we change supplier, so the delay". The boss here is Donald L**. It's not Lee or Lim at the end, make your own guess.

They provide common kitchen for the hall. Yeah, kitchen, but DON'T bother to use it. So does the fridge. Just DON'T BOTHER.

Internet? Like that la, basic surfing, no downloading business. I would tick an OKAY, but no where EXCELLENT. It fits my needs, although some of the flash Facebook games take longer to load, which moves me into non-flash game of fb, well OT, I am sorry! If you want a decent seed internet, then you need to pay. They have 512kbps and 768kbps package for you, up to you to choose. But, for what I know, programme like uTorrent (and other P2P software) are blocked, and PPS don't work!

If you are Malaysian, you will need to find time to suit yourself in the hall. Most of the times, it's filled up by international students because they came a lot further from us. Their way of living, can be different. A sudden noise along the corridor is common, and it's usual to listen some booming of music. Fortunately, the Hall Tutor and Committee in the halls, are very good, that they keep voice at the minimum, and notify you about any latest news and give warning if some of the residents do not follow. A most recent one in my hall is about smoking through charcoal. Notice is being given to all residents via sticking on the door (or slipping through the bottom of the door), before warning is done.
But anyway, if you think you will find hard living with international students, like their scents (which the perfume they put on don't appeal to my nose), their accents, their voices (which is usually very loud), consider again. It's not like the hall can form a community among themselves that live together, and are close, communicating each other. Things like, someone opened the door and shouted "Dota last round", then everybody will start playing is not going to happen. The international students live their ways, different from most of the Malaysians I would say, at least it's me.

Yeah, a bit on the Hall Tutor and Committee thingy. They are good, decent, and put up some activities. But, only the Hall Tutors (who sign contracts with the company/university), will get to stay. Committee are not being guaranteed an accommodation for a next academic year, but instead, being put on the top of waiting list only. Committee will be shuffled every year, good or bad? Well, no idea.

And a little bit about me. I stayed in Redang Hall, and have an awesome Hall Tutor. And I AM a Hall Committee, yet I dislike the accommodation. I believe the things can be quite biased in some ways from the others. But the forumers from this thread knows me, knows about my words, and my number of posts could tell you if my words is trustworthy or not. And I swear, whatever I said on the above, remain true for me, and hopefully not happening to you.

Yup, TTS, Taman Tasik Semenyih.
But for newcomers, especially those that couldn't have the opportunity to rent a house in TTS or somewhere (lack of survey, or no friends to share, introduce), stick back to on-campus. It saves you a lot of troubles.
Perhaps staying like for the first year (if you don't mind the blood sucking rate of rental), then move out to stay outside for the following years.

For what I know, Foundation can get until 35%, but undergraduate will only have 25%.

And the internet on-campus doesn't allow P2P, for those who are concerned.

http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Students/Scho..._Achievers.aspx

Pages for High Achiever's Scholarship. Well, it seems not updated though, since it says 2008. Not sure if it's still being offered now.

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Added on July 8, 2010, 10:33 pmCheck the link I posted.

This post has been edited by tanjinjack: Jul 8 2010, 10:33 PM

EE is the first engineering courses offered in Nottingham Malaysia and thus accreditation comes earlier than other courses. Fear not, it's just a matter of time for the rest of the courses getting accredited!


Not necessary, in the case of Malaysia. There are quite a number of engineers in Malaysia who are not registered with BEM. Graduates of BEng do not find issue in getting a job, too. Intel, for instance, does not care about accreditation in employing engineers. Civil truly needs accreditation though.

Put aside MQA. What's important is BEM. If I recall correctly, Electrical Engineering is accredited by BEM.
BEM website has a list of the accredited programme.

rxy,
Their certs might be better when comes to accreditation. But their skills may not beat us. Come on, at least it's a year lesser of study time means another year of working experience. Who is better? (Not to mention if one follows a fast track foundation, or even a 1-year Pre-U and join in Jan, one could get 1-2 years ahead of those who do the STPM-IPTA route.)

Might be a bit late for the comments about the rankings. No points arguing between ARWU and TIMES for them using different methods.
Just poking each other's weakness does not make one being inferior to the other, and people will just argue in an endless loop.

Which one is better, depends on how the reader interprets. Which criteria is important to the reader? Does having more Nobel laureate more important than peer review? Sort of.

Just go with the one you think you can live with.

Get OFF campus instead. It will be better.

Okay, open the door, to your right is your first bed, and then second and then third and forth.
In front of each bed, is the table. So, there's 4 in total.
Then at the other end, is the toilet and wardrobe.

If I recall correctly it's like that. In short, for the money, it's a lot better for off campus accommodation.

The picture shown is the twin-shared bedroom. Notice those doors, they are the room where two bedrooms are placed, where the tables are placed at the outside. Total 3 rooms (i.e. 6 people) in 1 unit, that comes with a shared washroom that has 1 hot water bath, 1 cold water bath and 2 toilet bowls.

It may be hard for you to secure off campus on your own. But if you have friends at UNMC, get them to help you if possible. Pioneer overcharges the off-campus rates, so does their on-campus rate. But the on-campus at least has the proximity and convenience that are quite good. If you cannot secure even the on-campus with twin shared, then find something else. I was told (in fact, chased out) from the on-campus accommodation as all the 1200 units will be opened for new students. So, I believe you can't fail in getting a room you want if you apply early.

Theft case or not, you can't blame if you don't make your own precaution.

I have no idea about the selection of roommates as the University themselves are taking over the management with Pioneer only doing some simple jobs I think. Previously, when Pioneer has all the says, they want to minimise jobs and decide to assign randomly. But I have heard the other company Perintis allows assignment of roommates on request, as long as the application is done together.

Library does not open 24/7. It's, however, open at extended hours during exam period.

My personal statement for Nottingham is boring. I later applied to UK university (through UCAS) and had a bombastic one, but I didn't go for it in the end.

Personal statement comes important when your grades are not up to par for admission or consideration for scholarship. Think it in a way that it's an additional push. So, don't take too lightly on personal statement.

Wow, based on the .doc by rxy, my upcoming academic year accommodation is a steal! LOL..

TTS 5, and I got the price of a single room lower than those listed in your .doc file.
Not going to disclose the price though.

Welcome to Nottingham, and also to the disastrous Pioneer.
LOL...
You are left with two choices.
Bug them more, and more, and more by making more calls and sending more emails.
Or, just leave it, and see if you are lucky to get yourself in or not.

The on-campus accommodation is like that, sadly to say. But, the university itself is great.