I think you misunderstood. The good schools don't need to go for Msian accreditation because we only make a small minority of their student population. Read = we are not their pot of gold.

You have to think about their ROI. Why spent massive hours of paperwork and money to get accreditation relevant for 5 Msian students when they have 1,000 from other countries?

They will still get good students from Msia, but it will only be from those who can self-sponsor or get private sponsors.

I know exactly what they are. I'm just responding to what you wrote.

Nice thread TS. Good read. Need to keep options open for my kids future career. Meaning non engineering

Then just enlighten me, why a foreign trained architect needs LAM accreditation?

This post has been edited by jojolicia: Jun 19 2022, 05:08 PM

If they want to practice in Malaysia, they need to get registered with the board. In order to do so,

i. coming from an accredited school means you just need to show up at the board, isi borang, show all sijil and BAM, you're registered.

ii. coming from unaccredited school means you have to sit for LAM part 2 (and part 1 if you still don't have one) exam, show all your sijil and portfolio and pass it. If you fail, you have to do a short design project to prove your worth. This will take between 4 weeks to 6 months.

This applies to anyone from any background or nationality to practice in Malaysia.

Remember, previously (before 2014), only Malaysians can become architects, and only if they graduated from Malaysia or a handful of schools listed in an old accredited list inherited since the 70s. The old list was fixed, it could not be changed to add or remove entries.

Ok, thanks for the detailed headups

boss.. as engineer i go there kakacaucau

This was last year's topic laa bang.