In conclusion, if you don't have much money and you get IPTA, go for it.

If you cannot get IPTA but you can get some loan/sponsorship, go for IPTS.

If you have a lot of money and have very good results, go for top IPTA or top IPTS, up to you.

Not all IPTS are good, some good IPTS are MMU, UTAR, IMU, Nottingham, Swineburg, Monash (all are backed by reputable organisations). These IPTS are definitely having good system like IPTA. The graduates from these IPTS sometimes get better comments from industry during their practical training. In IPTS, mostly they are trained to be independent, instead of just have to follow the IPTA strict rules.

I guess for communication skills/teaching skill wise, IPTS won IPTA a lot.
IPTA won't in term of facility and cost of enrolment.

Up to you to decide, but I always see students from IPTS are happier.
If you don't believe, go visit one IPTA and one IPTS and you will realize that.

By the way, I'm a product of IPTA. I am not helping IPTS, but just want to make the thing clear.

On the other hand, i think the concept of students must dress humblely, cover until knee, and must hold their own status is just some people's opinion.
The code of behavior is being misleaded in the outer behavior.

How about internally? By dressing smartly, do you treat your friends sincerely? do you talk nicely at the front and talk bad at lecturer's back?

If you been to singpore NUS and NTU, you will know that non of them are blamed for wearing casual like shorts. Ok, their lecturer are wearing jeans and T-shirt.

Did not been US? The stanford university does not have any border of university, do you still think that the university students should be fenced and not mixed with the society?

well, you should broaden your mind. Do you think when you join the company, they will look at how you dress, what you eat? They will see whether you can work, whether you can communicate, whether you are able to complete the tasks, responsible...

Living luxuriously is just less then 5% of the populations, it is not because they are in IPTS. It is because they are rich... and they are pampered by their rich family. Do you still think everyone can live luxuriously? How many percent of the people are rich?

In taiwan university, they are allowed to make up in their classes, the stars can come into their university. Can you say they are bad people? Of course no, their graduates are the fundamental of the country.

Even if you go to Indonesia university, they called their lecturers "pak" which means someone respected and treat them as friends.. DO you still think that formality is a must?

You believe in your own standards (dress properly etc) but other places insist friendliness, free thinking, etc.. Do you still think what you think is absolutely correct?

Everything got good and bad, doesn't it? If given a chance, which of about types of university would you choose? answer to yourself..

yupe..

this is 50 steps laughing at the 100 steps..

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Added on December 12, 2009, 3:51 pmEntering IPTS is very helpful and unavoidable in the following cases:

1) student is not accepted to IPTA. (private school students, some other reasons ++)
2) student does not get the course their like. ( they want to be engineer but they get offer for socialist)
3) student is assigned to a very far university. (like east/west Malaysia, vice vesa)
4) student want the chance for going overseas. (Twinning program)

I see many penang people prefer to stay in Penang. If they are not accepted to USM, they will opt for KDU or INTI. Some KL people are assigned to Sabah, and they finally choose to stay with MMU/UTAR.

For IPTA, you have very least option to what you can study.

But your choice is unlimited for IPTS.

See.. not everyone is so lucky to get to the right university and the right course they want. With a few tens of extra money, they have the right to choose. (u can become engineer, doctor, marketer.)

It is not always the quality issue. And PTPTN does provide a financial assitance for those who are in need.

The people who get the right uni and right course when they apply for IPTA is rare (<20%). 30-40k worth for a whole life career type at your own hand. Think about it...

Not like last time, no IPTS, you get what you must go, no PTPTN also. If you don't get IPTA, no future at all. Here is the use of IPTS..



This post has been edited by epalbee3: Dec 12 2009, 03:51 PM

an employee don't want to see your cert after your interview.

they just want to see you have the capability to complete the required job.

for an example, you can see that some news reporter like ong ching yee, she has a degree, but she never need to show it anymore.

or credit card promoters, they just need to use their communication skill to grab enough customers; this knowledge cannot be grabbed from book.

boosting your cert after joining the workforce is sometimes a mistake that the new graduate makes.

For example, do you need a plumber that know how to fix the pipe leakage or a plumber that has a lot of certs but only good in theory?