is it ?

i don't see anywhere in australia or uk migration system that give you more points for international education.

Interested to know more of the average fees that Malaysians pay for International/Private Schools

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I like to call bullsh*t on that. My Mandarin teacher who’s Hindu Indian learnt mandarin until std 6, taught malays and indians incl bananas how to understand and speak Mandarin. He taught all the Malay information/front desk staff conversational Mandarin, enough to be able to give PRC tourists directions. Its not how much time you need to learn but understand the languages. Chinese schools are all hafal like sekolah agama, doesn’t mean they are gonna be experts in the languages unless they used it everyday at home and with their friends same like I learnt Hokkien and cantonese, in school and in univ, It’s also your aptitude and willingness to learn, if bodo and malas, no hope. I also studied mandarin, 1 period a day for 5 days, 6 years, didn’t remember much cos my mandarin speaking classmates were children of hawkers and B40, preferring to speak English as they considered mandarin as a coolie language, circa 80s while none of them are B40 now.

Nowadays PRC also hiring English speaking overseas chinese as their locals have not mastered this foreign language. Our own locals may have better english then them but still make grammatical mistakes and still confuse with gender, his-her, typical of chinese/malay which does not have gender in their verbs because 你 or “dia” is used for both genders.

Private or international school bad ROI

Best combo is srjkc and smk(chinese), or

srjkc then famous english school (eg St joseph, St xavier)

For pre-U, go for STPM or Matriculasi.

Invest those money in good divident stocks for university

Due to crazy competition to be the very best!
Even my time my teachers admitted they put close to 0 effort at school so can save energy for their tuition classes since they can make so much more money there. Excuse is the students hopeless and won't listen.

Quite disgusting imo but our system created this issue and keeps encouraging it.