As topic ... about the actuarial science course in UKM, is the course conducted in english or malay? coz half of the course's title is in malay when I checked the official website. Could anyone please enlighten me? thank you ..

get inside, then only you discuss.
normally its in english.

thanks for the reply, just want to know it better before i apply for it.. thanks

but i think all courses are conducted in english.
no more BM,
don't worry so much.
apply first.

I read somewhere that UKM is a university with malay language as the medium. (Universiti yang meggunakan bahasa kebangsaan sebagai bahasa pengantar)...

waa.. still using bm.
LOL. macam mana mencapai wawasan 2020? tsk tsk
but nvm, just apply.

This post has been edited by Stefanov: Mar 22 2008, 12:40 PM

Not that they're stuck with BM, it's just that the university itself was founded to be a bm medium university.
TS please check for facts. I could be wrong. Cheers.

Check UKM here



Nowadays it's pretty lenient. You can use both languages as long you can get the facts right.

erm... what's wrong if they are using bm? Changing language for Sc n math to english at school is one of the failure project from what i know

UKM was setup with the main intention of using BM as its main teaching language. This was back when UM was still using English and UPM did not yet exist in its current form.

BM is not adequate as a language for use in science and math, especially globally when BM speaking countries are lagging in the field of science and technology. Mostly because BM in its current form is still a new language and we have sucky technical translators.

student have no problem reading and answering in english. but you can't expect teacher who teach math for 20 years to suddenly teach in english. they'll just read from the book.

I was told by friends in UKM and UPM few years back that they had to do double work - submit same assignment/report in both BM and BI.
BM for lecturer to mark (cos their BI not too good) and BI for record keeping.
Which is plain dumb if you ask me.

Engineering in UPM has using English many yrs ago...long before those local uni want to change the medium to english for science courses after i grads..
I personally email those lecturers to somfirm the language before I enter..
u can do this as well...to comfirm with them..make use of their website