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Monday, August 27, 2012

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...

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

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,...

Friday, August 3, 2012

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...