Qualified for life

(PS: Apparently, I dont know what happened to my hostel connection; Internet is being made available, but then it refused to bring me to this posting page yesterday after I had attempted a few times of opening it. Now using campus wireless facilities. Anyway, here it comes; the longest prose probably in my blogging history.)

Well, for those of you out there who are well converse with professional qualifications; this slogan shall sound familiar to you, it's ACCA icon anyway if you dont know this.

Practically, my intention here is to “bombard” something from what professional qualifications students should have been enjoying. Well, as the three words suggest; it would mean that once a person had obtain the qualification with relevant and sufficient practical experiences, then he or she shall be well converse with the accountancy and business world or any other place where accountancy knowledge are required.

Looking back at those tuition providers that we had in ours nation, Malaysia; not many achieved official accreditation from ACCA (The ALP programme). But then after really entering into a well known institution that had produced vast high flying graduates within ACCA programmes, I begin to realise something which is quite diverted from my (and I believe most of others students out there) initial believe(s).

The ALP (Approved Learning Partner) programme do give a vivid indication of how that particular institution performed in ACCA over the past years. But then we, as public doesnt really know what are the exact criteria(s) of awarding such recognition; thereby misleading may occur as basis of assessment really were unclear to public.

From my “analysis” over the past three weeks and from those “experiences” that I had during CAT eras, the conclusion that is VERY vivid and true in nature is that in order for a lecturer really to qualify to teach professional qualification; not only that he or she should have been graduated within the same capacity (any professional certification), he or she shall also possessed sufficient practical experiences in a real business world in order to really being capable to teach students in terms of the application of those knowledge specified in each subject.

Maybe you would say this is too demanding, true enough that I think this is very demanding; but then this is the “real business” of what a lecturer can or cannot give. I do see a few already that those had good exposure to the business world really capable of delivering the lessons more lively, professionally, applicable to real life (in a sense that you can see what are those topics / learning objectives are meant for outside there). On the other hands, those doing something not related or teach immediately after graduated will be slightly not that good and efficient enough though he or she might struggling hard to make sure everyone do understand what is being taught and hoping that after years of “in house exposure”, he or she is capable of producing high flyer's in exams. But then, the fact is that this normally would work to the maximum.

This is really what I am having now. The costing teams (I meant to say those who teach cost and management accounting) appeared to be not so strong to me. Not only that they are not being able to teach in fluent English with sufficient content inside it. The thing that I really cant stand is that how can they simply teach a few pointers about a certain principle then go straight to Q&A session despite that the real textbook(s) had a few pages to reveal the underlying principle?! What even more funny and crazy is that they provided us with BPP Professional Education's kits questions.

For your information, ACCA had two official publisher; namely Kaplan Publishing and the mentioned above. Kaplan publishing had a relatively easier exams kits questions bank but a more hard to comprehen texts. BPP is exactly the reverse way of Kaplan, having user friendly texts but you would have a tough time of working through their questions ---- extremely demanding. Now that with a few pointers and questions from BPP as guided examples, I dont really know how to learn through that way.

My other friend who came along from Miri had chosen another class also experienced the same thing, they are just experiencing simply the identical approaches. The only difference is that that lecturer talk “Mars Language” and mine talk “Human / Earth Language”. Looks like we shall have a tough time for costing paper despite the fact that it is my favourite areas for accounting in CAT eras as I was able to score far more better than financial accounting and taxation during that time. I think the only way to do is having more reading and practice with those official texts (since this institution wrote their own text) and exam kits, the only thing is cost and time to be consumed.

Corporation and Business Law class is fun, as the lecturer can do a good story telling; but then thinking of exams of that really make me sick, all the things are legal terms in nature and you should know that laws speaks differently from human. I just have no ideas yet of how to crunch those pieces into the memory centre of a person's brain despite the fact the she had taught the analytical techniques of tackling those questions. Anyway, the other main trouble is the lack of additional resources which are particularly meant for this subject. Though they had produced a nice thick text for us as the “sole bible” for the time being, but the information are everywhere; not that nice for the purpose of reading for exams.

Taxation classes are pretty good and I enjoyed much of it, just that this is a stressful job as the content meant to the covered are the top for this semester. Anyway, with some solid ground (not that solid though) from CAT; this shall make the journey a little bit more easy in term of comprehension. But my friend claimed that her lecturer is not that good enough though she like the class also. Yesterday she popped me up with a question via MSN whether I am satisfied of what I am getting as a “stakeholder --- the student”, I was like pretty surprising as backed in few months when I was still undecided for where to sign up; she still say this is the best, but then now she changed the perception already, even told me that considering to transfer for another institution that receives much more credit from part timers but receiving a slightly lower “grade” from the ALP programme.

In the end, my conclusion is that Platinum or Gold status is of nothing; it is just the performances measurement taken by ACCA and meant as a guideline only. In the end, it is the working adults comment who pursue part time for professional qualification that shall count as they might have a clearer picture of what to be demanded for from the course and institution.

Anyway, just tried it out smart and hard for a year first; if everything can be secured within first attempt and I can really build a strong confident in what Professional level lecturers can give (rather next 3 papers of F level also), then will go ahead to strike for the end goal or else maybe need to think of opting for OBU and gain the 3 years practical first...see how it's go as time lapsed...hope can survive through...sigh...maybe this is really the end consequences of having too much private institutions in Malaysia that makes the rivalry so clear; resulting the quality of tutors are really hard to determined by any possible means. Even you got the means to give some assessment, it might also turn up the other way round.

Guess that all.

"Work for better tomorrow" (wahaha....telling every single person...).

Bye bye!