INTRODUCTION
1.1 INTRODUCTION
At the present time, education is a very important and necessary thing. Most people make an effort to gain high education in order to get good chances and have a better life. Some people prefer to continue their studies locally, while many others choose to study abroad. There is no wrong choices. Study local or abroad, both have its own advantages and disadvantages.
It has becomes a popular trend among the community to send their children to study overseas as for them our local universities do not have the international quality of education and poor in facilities. But, this perspective is not all correct. First of all, this is because our local universities have improved tremendously from year to year. Moreover, Malaysia has been awarded as the education hub for higher learning which has countless of public and private universities with many foreign students. This shows that the foreigners trust our quality of education more than ourselves. This can be proved by the article reported by R.S.Kamini in the “New Sunday Times” newspaper on December 23,2012 that claimed University Technology Petronas(UTP) had been given 5-star rating. This is due to the fact that UTP was assessed for its researched and innovation achievement from eight different perspectives, which are Quantity & Quality of Researchers, Quantity & Quality of Research , Quantity of Postgraduates, Quality of Postgraduates, Innovations, Profesional Services & Gifts and Networking & Linkages.
Next, local universities also provided the qualified lecturers including lecturers who from overseas. All the lecturers are hired based on their experiences which must be at least 5 years in education field. Furthermore, most of the academic programs are received full accreditation from Malaysian Qualifications Agency who formerly known as National Accreditation Council. Thus, our local universities actually have the capability in producing many successful students like doctors, teachers, bankers,
At the present time, education is a very important and necessary thing. Most people make an effort to gain high education in order to get good chances and have a better life. Some people prefer to continue their studies locally, while many others choose to study abroad. There is no wrong choices. Study local or abroad, both have its own advantages and disadvantages.
It has becomes a popular trend among the community to send their children to study overseas as for them our local universities do not have the international quality of education and poor in facilities. But, this perspective is not all correct. First of all, this is because our local universities have improved tremendously from year to year. Moreover, Malaysia has been awarded as the education hub for higher learning which has countless of public and private universities with many foreign students. This shows that the foreigners trust our quality of education more than ourselves. This can be proved by the article reported by R.S.Kamini in the “New Sunday Times” newspaper on December 23,2012 that claimed University Technology Petronas(UTP) had been given 5-star rating. This is due to the fact that UTP was assessed for its researched and innovation achievement from eight different perspectives, which are Quantity & Quality of Researchers, Quantity & Quality of Research , Quantity of Postgraduates, Quality of Postgraduates, Innovations, Profesional Services & Gifts and Networking & Linkages.
Next, local universities also provided the qualified lecturers including lecturers who from overseas. All the lecturers are hired based on their experiences which must be at least 5 years in education field. Furthermore, most of the academic programs are received full accreditation from Malaysian Qualifications Agency who formerly known as National Accreditation Council. Thus, our local universities actually have the capability in producing many successful students like doctors, teachers, bankers,