More students opt for private institutions

Woah…I read that nowadays more students joining private institutions. This is a good news as well for the education system. Whenever there is rival, the competitions will be there. Healthy competitions between G-institutions and private institution will sure benefits the students. I guess students nowadays are lucky. Pressure from the successful results and achievements from students at private institution will buck-up the rest of the dormant institution. Now, it’s the time for future higher institution students to get to know the best for them. They can choose now.

Traditionally, people will opt for local G-institution is due to the financial matter and also is the lack of approved and recognized private institution by LAN. Previously, the G-hardly can approved any program or subjects taught by private institution. Today, more and more programs offered by private institution are approved and even gain the recognition from other country as well. This caused the G-institution evolved drastically by making English as the medium for mostly all of their higher institution, except for one whereby the institution still enforcing the Bahasa Malaysia as their medium in teaching as well as writing.

I could not really said that the standard of the G-institution is higher due to the usage of English. Instead, one of the local higher institution dropped from the list in the top 200 world ranking higher institution. What a shame. But some are debating that the ranking is not based on education syllabus alone, they are taking in the number of enrolled students, and the number of international programs offered, the total number of students, as well as the library facilities and etc. This brought out the awareness among Malaysians that our G-institutions are incompetent. We are afraid that in the near future, we can’t even compete with those institution from other developed country as well as developing country.

As currently I am working in a private institution, I slowly developed the sense of knowing the reasons and rationals for choosing a private institution, especially an establish private institution from their original country. This is really an advantage for the students, as well as they are being exposed to more in the education field, be it a scientific research or a business study. The system do impress me as they can produce well-prepared workforce as well as to build-up professionals in the selected fields. I couldn’t help but to agree that the emerging of private institution in Malaysia isn’t really money-minded, but to enhance the knowledge for students and as a choice to select the best. Well, there will still have some black-sheep among those private institutions that ruin the reputation of private institutions.

With the ratio almost 1:1 of enrollment of students in both G-institution and private institution will produce pressure among institution of be at their best. I am hoping to see how well can this goes, and at least, producing some competent graduate will not only helps to develop the country better, but also to share to the rest of the world that Malaysian graduates are worth it!