bro. judging from your age. best is to take a private diploma,
as it takes a shorter time to complete.
if u gonna take poly dip, by the time u finsh u are 26/27(depends
on whether u start with year 1 or straight year 2). furthermore u
plan to take uni, by the time u grad u are nearly 30, entering the
working society without any job experience, and that's gonna be
tough for u man bro. degree holders are everywhere now, try taking
a stone go town and throw at the crowd, there's a super high chance
that the person u hit might be a degree holder too.
so what i'm trying to say is, get the shortest path, get out of
school(with a degree of course) and gain working experience. try
looking through job adv and u will notice alot of jobs require
experience.
but eventually it depends on what u wanna work as in the future,
government or private sector. plan your work path, then plan your
study path, and not the other way round. if u have no plans to go
for government sector, then by all means go for private dip(faster
1 - 1.5 years), then private degree (faster 1 year) and ta dahhh!
start work at around the age of around 27(which is already quite
late but better than 30)
looking at the job scope that u are looking out for, private
sectors have many opportunites too. no doubt a local cert would be
better, but u will really lose out alot because of your age and
lack of work experience. and if u gonna go for poly diploma then u
MUST make sure u can enter local uni(which is VERY competitive
now). otherwise u waste your time going for a 2-3 years poly and
ended up at some private uni(which in the first place u could have
just go for private dip and private degree isn't it?).
think about it bro, don't make the wrong choice because u are not
young anymore
Cheers.
And to disagree with you, but in some way local poly
qualification is better than an distance learning degree although
it take long time to complete, the reason is simple based on what I
heard from a human resource company : Local Poly student
(expect part-time) usually have an industrial attachment
programme at their final term and the company the
student work with are those "big" brothers company like
IBM, HP and other government statutory
related company etc. This give them an edge in working
experience when the student prepared their resume.
Also if the HR company want to get "cheaper" and efficient
employee, they tend to prefer poly student with industrial
attachment background while an distance-learning degree is
considered to be an "overhead" which give them an excuse that the
job interviewer might not agree to "peanut" pay offered by the
employer.
Finally one advantage of public schools is that it is cheapest
to study there as there are many finanical aids like
scholarships,subsidy and bursary from MOE or WDA for working
adult. For private school institution it is either your
company sponsor you through "Skills Development Fund" (SDF)
to enroll or you borrow from bank to study in their
school.
Do take notice that private school 's main goal is to
earn an profit and there still an danger that it might suddenly
closed down without warning which happen before. And trust me, most
of the private school offering their private diploma course
that I attend, it is the foreign students ratio more than the
local students if you know what I mean if majority local will
choose poly or private diploma.
Still if TS want to have an faster route to study up to graduate
level like Master or P.hD by all means private schools is
still better.