Ok. So here is the story of my life. I did fairly well for O levels to get myself into most courses in any Poly or JC. In my 3 years in poly in that course that i pursued, i eventually found it was not my cup of tea. So i didnt do that well. Graduated with a cumulative GPA of 3.1 which is not good enough to get myself into a local U. So here i thought I have wasted my life since I cant go to a local U. And then one day i was stalking my old secondary school friend's fb profile. She got into NUS and she was from MI. Here i am thinking, damn! I have just wasted my life! Screw poly! I have made the worst decision of my life to go to a poly when i could have just went to a JC.
I am just thinking, is a local university worth all the hard work and sacrifices, does it guarantee me the success in life? Whats the big deal about local U?? Will i be looked down upon for not having a local degree?
Additional Info: im now working to save up to study in Australia.
What do u think??
Even road sweeper and other job will need an certificate and if you want to be insurance or property agent, it is an regulated industry which mean if you need to be qualify either as an diploma holder or pass their examination. The first problem is as an degree holder, they could just easily enter as an high management fast-tracked while an diploma holder would have to be their underlings, who will disagreed with that?
As to why local degree is more advantage, let just said there are an local poly graduate and other local student graduate with overseas UK City & Guilds diploma holders : http://www.cityandguilds.com , who stand an higher change of being selected especially local university had work closely with industry players like IBM or Standard Chartered, it is not suprised that experience wise, local uni student are already in an advantage.