{"id":985,"date":"2019-05-29T21:42:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=985"},"modified":"2019-05-29T21:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:43:24","slug":"matriculation-centre-should-it-be-abolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/matriculation-centre-should-it-be-abolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Matriculation Centre?  Should it be abolished?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">My pre-tertiary education was at IIUM matriculation centre.\u00a0 1996.\u00a0 The centre was in Lembah Pantai.\u00a0 We used the buildings that belong to UM and Institut Bahasa (Language Institute).\u00a0 I had a marvelous time during my matriculation days.\u00a0 I learned about life, adulthood and being more independent there.\u00a0 It was the first time I have to be away from my family (I am a Johorean).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I have friends that I have known since my matric years whom I still keep in touch until now.\u00a0 But unlike now, my matriculation programme took me two years to finish.\u00a0 So, in a way it is like I am taking STPM.\u00a0 No difference.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The issue now, some perceive that ex-matriculation students are less matured etc.\u00a0 I beg to differ.\u00a0 I think it will always bog down to the fact that how adaptable students are to further their studies at university level after they finish one year of matriculation programme.\u00a0 In this case, I do agree with <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utm.my\/2019\/05\/consider-the-whole-iceberg-of-the-matric-program-dvcai-utm\/\">DVCAI of UTM<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pre-tertiary education was at IIUM matriculation centre.\u00a0 1996.\u00a0 The centre was in Lembah Pantai.\u00a0 We used the buildings that belong to UM and Institut Bahasa (Language Institute).\u00a0 I had a marvelous time during my matriculation days.\u00a0 I learned about life, adulthood and being more independent there.\u00a0 It was the first time I have to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/matriculation-centre-should-it-be-abolished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matriculation Centre?  Should it be abolished?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-rambling","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}