If there is anything you can be sure of about Malaysian JPA scholarships for overseas universities, you can be sure it is the fact that there will always be more scholarship holders in certain courses. For one, this could be due to a funding emphasis placed by the Malaysian government in accordance with the needs […]

Channelnewsasia.com reports Mr. Tharman Shanmugratnam’s - Singapore’s Education Minister - remarks on how the new fuzziness in Singapore’s education system is a good thing. An excerpt:
The Singapore education system is going through a major shift, from one that is heavily standardized to one that provides more room for different talents to grow.
And you don’t have […]

Similar in nature as my previous post, this one is intended for American students seeking financial aid and scholarships. Here is a list of a few noteworthy sites that provide to help for students seeking scholarships.
1) USNews.com: Paying For College
- An informative all-round resource from USNews.com - known to many students all around the world […]

Here are a few student forums for Malaysian students seeking help on acquiring scholarships, whether from public or private institutions.
1) Recom.org
- Declares itself as the Worldwide Malaysian Student Network, and indeed, it does not disappoint in that respect.
- The Scholarship Forum in Recom is undoubtedly one of the most, if not the most, active forum […]

Looking through the list of Malaysian universities, I finally realised how many universities and private colleges Malaysia has today. From public to private, it seems that Malaysians do have some choice when it comes to their tertiary education after all. Here is a partial list:

International Islamic University
Multimedia University
Nottingham University Campus in Malaysia
Pusat Pendidikan Jarah Jauh […]

The recent court case involving the Pennsylvania federal court and the Dover public school district resulted in a loss for the public school district as the courts ruled against the the district’s endorsement of “intelligent design,” the idea that life on Earth was created by a higher being. In the wake of the ruling, […]

When I talk about tuition here, I am not referring to the tuition fees paid to colleges and universities. Those fees are necessary fees paid for your tertiary education. What I am referring to however, is the payments made for additional classes for primary school and secondary school (high school) students. These are the […]

An article on the polarized reactions over a Chinese campus sex education BBS at China Daily caught my eye.
An excerpt:
Eden, while initiated early in 2000, could go online four years later due to strong disapproval from certain factions under the banner of a “healthy campus environment.”
Braving a storm of criticism on Eden, which was […]