Normally, I touch articles I find in free article directories with a 24-foot long stick. But, I found this one both interesting and funny at the same time. Read it below. My personal comments come after the article.
The Push to Learn Chinese in Our Schools  by David Snape

USNews has an interesting article on A+ Options for ‘B’ Kids, i.e. options for students with less than outstanding high school results. The article fundamentally addresses the brand-consciousness of today’s high school students - with many unwilling to enter relatively good universities with strong programmes - simply because they never heard of them. To the […]

Over at theory.isthereason, Kevin blogs about his life story - how he managed to avoid local, i.e. Singaporean, scholarships and financed his graduate and post-graduate education in the United States through alternative means. Basically, after his Bachelors degree, he took up a Graduate Assistantship (something like Teaching and Research Assistantships) which pay a monthly allowance […]

University College London (UCL) - a top-class United Kingdom university - offers both undergraduate and graduate scholarship for potential overseas students. This, of course, would thus include prospective Malaysian and Singaporean students. For this post, I will be writing specifically about their undergraduate scholarships.
These undergraduate scholarships are all merit-based (where applicants are judged primarily […]

Napier University - located in Edinburgh, United Kingdom - is currently offering five scholarships, with four exclusively for undergraduate students. The scholarships are for first-year entries for full degrees, with one scholarship being offered for degrees in each faculty: Arts & Social Sciences, Health & Life Sciences, Engineering & Computing and the Napier Business School. […]

Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore will soon be beginning their admissions exercise and a whole slew of pre-exercise activities. Well, we are looking at:

Talks on Undergraduate Programmes for Polytechnic Students

At Hotel Intercontinental Singapore, on the 15th of January 2006.

Talks on Undergraduate Programmes for ‘A’ Level Students

At Hotel Intercontinental Singapore, on the 19th of February […]

Continuing my series of posts on arts schools in Singapore is an informative post on the LASALLE-SIA College of The Arts - a tertiary arts institution comparable with the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA).
As it is, the LASALLE-SIA College of The Arts is probably one of the only alternatives to the NAFA for a […]

Contrary to popular belief that Singapore provides a science and technology-only education system, there are actually quite a number of arts schools available in Singapore today. From the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) - one of the oldest and most established tertiary arts institutions in Singapore - to much newer schools like the 3dsense […]