How could a private institution that promise a degree course of a reputable UK university to be discontinued when they initially offered its diploma program that is supposed to pave way for the admission to its second year degree program after completion? A BIG question indeed!
A lot of these private institutions charge high fees by providing nice and cozy environment just to attract students. And most naive students are easily influenced by the deceptive front facade instead of the real stuff that an education institution could offer, that is, the quality of education itself. They are mainly commercialized institutions all out to maximize profit, cut corners at having enough qualified lecturers for possible subjects students could opt to take on from semester to semester etc. Despite all these, the worst thing one could ever experience would be, to be told that the degree program is now discontinued after completion of your diploma. And you are then advised to carry on the degree program with other alternative universities of different ranking and standard!
I think it is ethically wrong to advertise on educational courses offered from established overseas universities to lure students in and subsequently default the intended path of the aspiring students! It is either they are not having enough students to form the class economically or having some fallout deals with the UK universities in question. We are not interested to know the actual reason why!
I had told my son to quickly seek out available courses of other more reliable private institutions at the slightest clue of such unscrupulous practices taking place. Imagine a college could accept your registration fees, promise the entrance to start course in September and subsequently want to persuade you to change university? He had wasted 3 months at home waiting for the second semester to start, he was told that ALL of the existing 1st semester common subjects could be exempted by virtue of the earlier diploma program undertaken by him. But in actual fact they are just using the excuse to buy time for recruiting more students. After that period of time, they probably failed to get adequate new student recruitment and they turned around and told you a such a shocking news. When you complain and threaten to take back the deposit, they have the cheek to mention that now the application is being sent to the overseas university and waiting for the letter of offer instead. No one could wait for such nonsense if the entrance criterion for admission is clearly set at a CGPA score of 2.5 or above!
My son got the offer from another Australian university applied with his result scripts and I told him to go ahead and forget about that RM500 deposit and whatever fees paid!
