Seriously? You are not joking minister?

I never knew that New Straits Times - Switching of varsities encouraged
. I was a student at a local university in the 80s. Never heard of this then!

I wonder how do they do 'encouragements'? 'Turn-over' style of the PDRM, Perampas Duit Rakyat Malaysia?

If it is indeed a practice that is encourage, let each and every universities' students be aware of it. Made arrangement for the procedures to be made known to everyone and the application to be handled with transperancy.

Then we'll be able to talk more on this issue.

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Switching of varsities encouraged

By June Ramli

Students are encouraged to switch universities midway through their studies so that they can benefit from a larger pool of resources. The Higher Education Ministry is allowing them to transfer their credits between universities to enable them to gain from different educational environments, teaching aids and lecturers, as well as a wider pool of resources.

Higher Education Ministry Quality Assurance Division director Datuk Dr Sharifah Hapsah Shahabudin said this would ensure graduates would be a product of more than one university.

"The move is to make our graduates more employable, mature and confident, which would enable them to get jobs easily even in the global market," she told the New Straits Times.

At a dinner held in conjunction with a workshop on credit transfers last night, Higher Education Deputy Minister Datuk Fu Ah Kiow delivered Minister Datuk Shafie Salleh’s speech, in which it was announced that credit transfer arrangements should also include vocational institutions and not only be restricted to universities.

"A student who has pursued a vocational course with adequate work experience should be able to transfer these experiences to gain entry into a relevant university course," Shafie said in his speech.

"I also believe that an individual who has to postpone his university studies and work because of family commitments or inadequate finances should be able to use his experience to enrol in university later in life."

Sharifah said the ministry would encourage more credit transfers among local, private and public universities before moving to universities in the European Union and Asean countries.

"Although we have credit transfers at the moment, it is done at a minimal level among local universities and lesser still with foreign universities."

She added that the ministry would now come up with a list of universities where credit transfers could be done for relevant courses and work with academicians for proper mechanisms for the system to be put in place.

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