Well the topic of discussion for this week is >> University Education For Polytechnic Students.
It can be clearly seen that more and more polytechnic students are now entering universities. In the past, only a small percentage of polytechnic students acctually made it into a local university. Polytechnic students in the past are trained in such a way that they are prepared and equipped with the necessary skills which will prepare them for entering the workforce. However, it is a totaly different thing now.
Today, the teaching objective for polytechnics is not only to prepare the students for entering the workforce, but also to prepare and encourage the students who want to pursue a university education. I feel this is very benefical to us. As compared to the Junior Collage (JC) students, we are more people and project orientated. With the large amounts of projects that we do, the different tasks that we poly students do in our course of education had made us totally different from JC students.
In a JC, a student can afford to slack for the whole year and at the last lap , put in effort to achieve a good grade in his final examinations. however this is not the case for polytechnic students. In Poly, we need to do and achieve good grade continuously for all our semesters to make sure that we will get a good grade at the end of the year. This difference in the education system had made JC students have a upper hand in handeling university education. In university, one is expected to "CHIONG"... and the JC students are good at this. Therefore to prepare the polytechnic students who are interested and are meant on entering university, i feel that the school should conduct prepartory courses or talks to enhance the students knowledge on university education.
Further more, i feel that the ration of intake should be:
- 40% JC Students
- 40% Poly Students
- 20% Foreigners
Currently for some courses which are offered in the universities, Poly students who hold a diploma in the similar course of study, might have a chance to skip the 1st year and proceed to the 2nd year of study. however, this is only possible if the student has the required "RESULTS"..
On the whole, i feel that each and every individual has the chance to enter university , may it be a JC or POLY student. entering the university is not an easy feat and much hard work is needed to be done before one can acctually pursue what he wishes.
Please feel free to comment ..Thanks
1 comment:
hey friend, i agreed with what you said regarding the different education style, between the poly students and the JCs. JCs they are more towards academic studies, whereas for the polys, we are more towards project-based. In a poly we compute our results at the end of every semester. Thus, constant hardwork is very important. However, for JCs, their system is more like secondary sch education, even if they start to workhard only at the last min, nobody will care. As long as they can pull through during their final A-level, they would still be able to enter the uni. If the schools really think that we are not well-prepared, the more they should provide us with talks regarding the uni education, instead of always saying that JCs are more well-prepared than the polys...
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