The Prodigy's Dreams

Jeshaiah is 13 years old. However unlike his other 13 years old colleagues, he had completed his A level. He did his O level in 2010 at UCSI and subsequently pursue the A level under scholarship.

He took 4 A level subjects, Physics, Chemisty, Biology and mathematics. However he is still finding problem to find a university that is willing to accept him due to his young age. He wanted to do mechantronis, mainly due to his fascination with robot.

When asked of his readiness to enroll in a university, Jeshaiah wished that he would be given the chance to prove it himself. Afterall, he had done the O and A level wit flying colors.  

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Free Online Courses

Coursera.Org - Courses from 16 Universities

A group of World's top universities are cooperating to offer online courses for free. The courses are available at coursera,org, The courses are offered from Princeton University, Standford and two other US universities.

In the same note, a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched the Khan Academy offerring thousands of video lectures.

In May 2012, another two well known institutions, Harvard and MIT had made the announcement that they will be working together to create edX. The offerings include video lesson segments, embedded quiz, online lab and student paced learning.

The coursera.org had made a tremendous progressed.  The number of registered students are 740,000 from 190 countries. A student that takes a Stanford computer class and business class from Princeton university will be issued with the completion certificates. The certificate will be a proof of skills and motivation and can be used for employee to better their career.

Currently all coursera courses are free. They may start to charge of specific services such as the issues of certificates. Financially, the universities are quite comfortable with supports from many organisation.

Note: Online learning had been practiced by many successful organisations for their corporate development program and staff developments scheme.

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PreUniversity in Malaysia

The traditional qualification required for the students entry into university was the A level. When Malaysia started to introduce the Malay Language as the mean of education, a new equivalent qualification of STPM was created.

In early 70s, many of the Malaysian Universities introduced the "preuniversity" program. Slowly, the program gathered popularity and became one of the main stream of inputs for the university students. With the introduction of private university act in late 90s, open up the opportunities for the introduction second stream of universities. Even before the Act, there were many private institutions operation, and there were representing overseas universities or colleges. One of such institutions is Taylor College.

• The South Australian Matriculation programme is the first in Malaysia, and today the largest South Australian Matriculation centre in the world.
• The biggest independent centre for Cambridge A Levels in the world, the largest in Malaysia and thefirst to be awarded the Cambridge International Fellowship Centre status (only 3 such centres in Malaysia).
• Pioneer of the Canadian Pre-University programme in Malaysia (1983).
• In 2009, Taylor's College introduced the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) and is one of 11 IB World Schools in Malaysia.

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