Singaporean students who opted to receive emails by Brightsparks should have begun receiving invitations (just a notice, really) to apply for several government or government-linked scholarships. A few examples would be the FIREfly Scholarship and the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore Scholarship.
In fact, there are web-equivalents for the email notices sent. For the […]

Just like my post on the Singapore Cambridge A-Levels yesterday, I’m going to be reporting another piece of relatively obvious news: Sijil Pelajaran Tinggi Malaysia (STPM) results will be available on March 16th, 2006.
But unlike the Singapore (or Malaysian) A-Levels, the Malaysian Ministry of Education is trying something very new (and innovative, I might add) […]

International Enterprise (IE) Singapore will be hosting a scholarship forum on the 11th of March, 2006 (Sunday) from 11am to 1pm. The IE Singapore Scholarship Forum 2006 will be held at 230 Victoria Street, Bugis Junction Office Tower, 7th Floor, Seminar Room, Singapore 188024.
According to the email sent by Brightsparks, the IE Singapore […]

Darn, it seems I got it completely wrong when I reported earlier that the Singapore GCE A-Level results were going to come out in the third week of February as it’s been officially announced that A-Level results will be out on March 1st, 2006. I’m sure most of you would have already known this, but […]

About two days back, it was announced that the Phillipines Government will be allocating a "massive" P500M (US$9.6 million) for tertiary education scholarships. Apparently, more money will be allocated for students in tertiary courses and technical and vocational courses.
The weird thing is that this move was deemed to be more economical than "…having new classrooms […]

Malaysiakini plays host to a long-standing controversial topic on Malaysian government and government-linked scholarships. It’s been said many times, albeit rather quietly, that government scholars are "not recommended" to attend any undesirable political gatherings. Worse still, it has also been said that some students under Malaysian government scholarships serve as "spies" of a sort for […]

Now, when I said earlier that scholarships would always help countries an states keep their best and brightest students at home, I wasn’t talking about the extreme measures some United States districts have taken. Just look at the way Kalamazoo has played the state scholarship card. According to a recent news release, students that enroll […]

A common understanding is that countries that do not give scholarships to their best and brightest will inevitably lose them to countries that do. In this region (Asia), we’ve seen that happening between Singapore and the various countries it awards scholarships to, e.g. Malaysia, China and India. In fact, this "principle" seems to apply equally […]