if you meet the entry requirements than find the one your interested in and you can handle than go and register la ^^"

1. Get Ready to work really hard to get really High ATAR in order to be considered into well ranked Universities. Not recommended going through this if your looking at very competitive courses.

2. The timing. Most UK Universities have intakes in September/October and Aussie year 12 programmes end and get your results around December/January. So you will have a long wait before you can start your Degree ^^"

If your ok with those among other things than go ahead.

hum business isn't really a competitive course, but at a very good University like say Cambridge,Oxford,LSE,Imperial etc. everything is competitive.
Of course at a University which tops in business it will most probably be the most competitive course to get in that particular uni
Competitive courses generally are stuff like medicine,pharmacy,dentistry etc. where entry is competitive everywhere, but in those high ranking Universities where everyone wants to gain entry you could say every single course is competitive ^^"
Arguably entry into any tier-1 and probably most tier-2 universities are always competitive.
The best way to determine what is the minimum you have to achieve is to visit the specific University websites you are targeting as different places will ask for different things.

This post has been edited by Hikari0307: Aug 4 2010, 11:22 PM

A-Level is a type of Pre-U as also SAM,CPU,IBDP etc. Form 6 and matriculation can also be viewed as a type of pre-u
http://www.taylors.edu.my/courses/pre_u/pr...ding.php?id=103 read up here for some explanations on the structure of the different pre-u.

Foundation can also be seen as a type of pre-u as well though it prepares you to do your Degree and for Entry only at that specific University though other Universities might accept it as well but your options are limited compared to the more internationally recognized Pre-U like A-Level,SAM,CPU etc.
Usually Foundation is a 1 year programme by a University to allow SPM graduates a pathway into their Degree programme.

IPTA are public institution of higher learning eg. UM,UKM,UPM,USM,UTM,UIAM,UiTM etc.. Malaysians can only enroll using SPM for Diploma/Foundation there and can only enroll to Degree using STPM and Malaysian Matriculation. The fees are also very cheap because a huge chunk of it are paid for you by the government.

IPTS are private institutions of higher learning eg. Taylor's University,Sunway University College,MMU,Uniten,INTI etc. entry requirements are a lot lower and easier to enter. You can enter from a whole wide range of qualifications. A lot more expensive than IPTAs because you are paying full fees.

College unlike Universities and University Colleges can not award their own Degree. Those institutions that only have college status can only award up to Diploma and if they have a degree programme it means they are not the awarding body, it must be done through a partnership with a University.

usually part time courses take twice as long as full time courses though it can vary according to how much credits you take at a time and not all kind of fields are suitable for part time study.

Forget Medicine in fact forget science courses in general. Without even a credit even entering pre-u would be a problem let alone entering a med school.

MQA has set that Colleges and Universities will only accept students with at least 5 credits in SPM or an equivalent like O-Levels etc. into Pre-U or Foundation programmes. Furthermore than that to learn stuff like Chemistry etc. in a Pre-U programme, you will need a credit in that subject in SPM as well.

find some technical courses which doesn't require credits in SPM. If one can't even get a single credit in SPM, an academic life doesn't seem to be a suitable option.

your answers can be answered by typing about the same thing in google ^^"

2 - Speaking in Malaysian context a local degree would be a degree awarded by an IPTA or IPTS while an international degree might be reffering to Degrees which are awarded by foreign Universities for example through a twinning programme in an IPTS.

3- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgraduate_education

do you mean do you need to get in?
If so then no, there is no particular subject needed to get into masscomm they just look at the results.

It depends on the person really since different people will think different systems are tough, though generally speaking the IB Diploma is a good mix of coursework and exams and focuses on soft skills development as well so you can say to an average person who is used to exams like most malaysians it's tougher to take than A-levels.