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A DIALOG SESSION WITH MQA AND MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION


Last Wednesday on 23rd December 2010...
Andi Rosnita, Aidil Ibrahim and Ferman Hidayat were attend a Dialog Session organized by MQA at Menara PKNS, Petaling Jaya...
This program were involving all Student Representative from other Private College around Klang Valley...
The dialog was chaired by YAB Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Dato' Saifuddin Abdullah and the moderator was CEO of MQA, Dato' Syed Ahmad Hussein...




There were 2 Q&A session and they will be answered by Dato' Saifuddin and Dato' Syed...
With high enthusiasm showed by SRC from other colleges and limited time, they only can answer a few questions from some SRC...
We just take note and listen carefully to the answers given...

Some Q&A along the session, are:
  1. What is the fate of students for courses that still did not have any accreditation from MQA? The college are offering those courses, but did not have any student since the courses still don't have any approval from MQA.
  2. Please have a parliament place for us, as a IPTA/IPTS students for us to share our point of view and as a platform for us to exchange our experiences or ideas.
  3. Why there're must have a gap between IPTA and IPTS? Why don't we have a space to sit together, discuss together all problems. Just like today, all of us just come from IPTS only.
  4. Let us the University and College students to involve in politic. Cancel the AUKU.
  5. Where are IPTS students right or opportunities to have a job placement? Because they only give a fully chances to IPTA students, not us the IPTS students.
  • Answered Dato' Syed - MQA did not take a long time to give an accreditation to certain courses that offered by the college. Delay only happen when the college failed to follow the minimum conditions stated by the MQA to run the programs. But, usually the courses will be have full approval before the students finish their study.
  • Answered by Dato' Saifuddin - The ministry already plan to have a Senate from the students of IPTA/IPTS. Only we just need some time to come out with the plan how to realize it.
  • Answered by Dato' Saifuddin and Dato' Syed - Actually in Ministry and MQA, we never differentiate between IPTA and IPTS. What makes you different from each other, just the name of the institutions. But today, we only call up you guys because we want to make sure the quality of services provided to your institution are still in higher level because your institutions are running privately.
  • Answered by Dato' Saifuddin - If I were a students, I also wants to involve in politic. But so many side are against it with a reasonable reasons. For example, you guys can join the political party, but when comes to having a demonstration, NO. Better you use the time to study instead of joining the demonstration. I agree to let students involve in politic but I also have 30 reasons why you guys should not involve in it. Most of people that agree to not let you involve in politic are your parents, the one that have fully right on you. Just believe this, AUKU is for your own good. AUKU just want you to focus on your study first, once you already finished your study, then you can choose the way that you want.
  • Answered by Dato' Syed - You know what, we also receive the same sigh from the IPTA students. The said, employers only give place for IPTS students. The problems are not come from the MQA or the ministry. The most important elements to have a job placement of course your fortune, then a good examination results also can influence the corporation to give you a place, but the most important is it depends on the employers itself. They are the one that stated the standards, not MQA or ministry. MQA and ministry only can help you to provide a good place to study so that you can reach a high achievement in your education. If they did not give you the job, it is definately not because of you are from IPTA or IPTS. They just mention or create those excuses because they actually did not want to give you the job.

That's all the points that we think related to us and thanks so much to the other Student Representatives for the best questions given...
Thank you to Dato' Saifuddin and Dato' Syed for giving us a good responds and answers, also being so nice to us by respecting us...
A high appreciation to MQA and Ministry of Higher Education for organizing this session as a platform for us to get close with the MQA and ministry, also we can know each other much more better...

Regards,

-SRC TPM College 2010/2011-