JPA Website for Overseas Courses

Check this website before you choose your course overseas

Hope of coming home to serve country dashed

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/11/focus/4876973&sec=focus

I read with great empathy the plight of this writer. Unfortunately I have also checked the JPA list of recognised qualifications and can confirm that the Graduate Diploma in Education at the University of Western Australia is not recognised.

Only the Bachelor of Education is recognised.

In fact, no Diplomas are recognised from any of the Universities in UK or Australia in the arts and humanitarian subset. I have not looked at the rest of the courses.

So if you have any friends or family who intends to come back to work, please ask them to check with this JPA website first to avoid grief in the future when the nasi sudah jadi bubur...


http://www.interactive.jpa.gov.my/webinteraktif/frmMainIktiraf.asp

The site is easy to use and is very fast. You can search through the fields as detailed below.

Negara / Country :
Institusi / Institution :
Bidang / Field of study :

atau / or

Carian / Search:

The fact of the matter is this. The onus is on the students to check before they enrol for a particular course.

All countries have their own list of accepted qualifications and one must be very meticulous in finding out the details and also bearing in mind that the list can change at any time.

At one point, the Singaporean government decided to arbitrary only recognise about 20 Universities throughout the world for the MB Bch degree.

So suddenly, many Singaporeans who were already half-way through the medical course in "unrecognised" Universities faced the bleak prospect of permanent unemployment in their own country.

Luckily, the Singaporean PSC came to their senses and gave these poor souls an exception as they were already half-way through. But the restrictions remained for a few years as far as I know...

"To be forewarned is to be forearmed."

Source : Author SAMCWPEN,The Star