QUOTE(LookingforHome @ Aug 12 2013, 04:33 PM)
any idea why engineering course is not recognise by board of engineers in m'sia..
engineering courses takes 4 years, but why TRAC+Shallam only 3 years?
Because Malaysia signed the Washington Accord which recognized engineering degree even from our local and private university. Let say you go to US with your local engineering degree, you can be 100% sure that your engineering degree will be recognized by them. To make sure all of this, BEM and MQA frequently do "Quality Check" on the universities offering engineering degree to make sure they are up to standards
If the degree is not up to standards, then that degree is no recognized by BEM and MQA. BEM set the rules that that an engineering degree MUST BE AT LEAST 4 YEAR DURATION and any lower is automatically not recognized.
For certain case example, you can take the 3 years course and then do your post grad for another year for a total of 4 years. However, BEM will only consider it as a degree qualification and not post grad or Master qualification. This is because, you only just fulfill the 4 years requirements even though you have taken your master.
Most of this case happen when parents/students want a quickest and fastest way to get a degree cert out. But fail in finding out information if the degree is valid or not. So when a deal is too good to be true, there sure something fishy going behind