PENGALAMAN SETELAH MENDAPAT SURAT TAWARAN TENAGA PENGAJAR MUDA (TPM)

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Assalamualaikum,

Sincerely saying, the phases of TPM are hard! Too hard that I cried several times in 3 months.

Alhamdulillah, I've been interviewed in April and been accepted in June. I received the offer letter on 30 June 2014. These are the details of the offer that shocked me the most :

1. Been offered to pursue Masters in oversea. ( Based on my experience, our Dean won't allow us to pursue in Malaysia if your offer has stated you have to do it overseas. Most of other faculty's Dean do, but not in our faculty. Its either you reject the offer or by hook or by crook  pursue overseas)

2. Offer will be valid until September 2014. If no answer after that date, they assume us reject the offer.

3. Must passed IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL( I don't remember the passing marks). Even though some of the overseas university does not require that, you still need to sit for the exam to feed the requirement of KPM. If you don't pass for the first time, you can take as many exam as you want after that or else, you have to reject the offer. A friend of mine has to take it twice, can't pass the exam, disappointingly need to reject the offer. Fees for exam is RM600.

4. Must attend  Biro Tatanegara (BTN) and pass the exam.

5. Choose Top 200 University from this webpage. Apply the university own-self. And if the application need fees, pay by ourselves.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013-14/world-ranking

6. Must present the proposal to the board of director of faculty. Once they approve it, then only can proceed to next phase. (Fly to the chosen Uni)

7. Must apply for research or mix mode Masters. Not fully coursework masters.

8. Must apply for the Visa and passed the TB test(for UK Visa)

9. Must apply for Extension of Bond with previous sponsor.

So I got 3 months to settle down every single thing. Yes, it seems to be a lot of time, yet the problem occurred as things related to each other.

I have to wait for 1 month to sit for IELTS. Waited for another 1 month to settle down the sponsorship extension with JPA, few weeks to receive offer from potential university and about weeks to prepare proposal and having exact date to present. Then another few weeks to wait for CAS number and unconditional letter  from university.

And also, I have to settle down everything before I applied for VISA. And it required me about 3 weeks to wait for VISA appointment. I came to Manchester a week after the session started due to many delays.

Yes, it was the hardest peak of my life so far. Yet, here I am. A postgraduate student at University of Manchester.