Relatively uninteresting news, but that’s my description for anything statistics-related since I am pretty much a layman after all. Anyway, it was recently reported that between 2001 and 2005, 14 percent of undergraduates and 30 percent of the postgraduates at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) were scholarship holders.
Like anyone […]

The South Shore Arts Center recently announced its 2006 Art Scholarship Competition for South Shore seniors from almost any type of high school. Four winners of the scholarship competition will be provided a bursary, ranging from US$300 to US$1,000, to read an arts-related degree at any "… school of fine arts or an accredited institution […]

To tell the truth, I didn’t bother watching Hitz.TV’s Blast Off! last season, or this season for that matter. But I think that doesn’t matter since all I’m going to do in this post is to report about one particular set of prizes given out to finalists of Blast Off! - scholarships to the Lim […]

The recent hike in Singapore university tuition fees (15% for SMU, 3% for NUS and NTU) seems to have evoked some harsh responses. Besides the few groans that I’ve been getting from my friends, there’s one particularly harsh one that I’ve come across online (or rather, on blog). I’m sure it’s not the only one, […]

New York University (NYU) and the National University of Singapore NUS) will join hands in offering a new graduate degree program entitled NYU@NUS. A fitting name indeed for this Masters of Laws program (LL.M.) given that it is a New York University course taught at the National University of Singapore.
But the special thing about […]

I love featuring scholarships that many people would consider different. The first one in this series was a feature on pageant scholarships. This time, it’s culinary scholarships - you know, for cooking.
Some might ask: Why feature these non-mainstream scholarships? It’s not as if many people would be eligible for them, right? But that is the […]

Through BrightSparks, I received an email today on an A*STAR Singapore event known as the A*STAR JC Seminar. Basic details for the Seminar are as follows:
Date:   4th of March, 2006Venue: Matrix Building, Level 4, Biopolis             30 Biopolis Street, Singapore 138671             (Near Buona Vista MRT Station)Time:   2.30 pm
According to the email, A*STAR will be […]

The Formula BMW Asia 2006 Scholarship is another scholarship in the motorsports vein, with the previous motorsports scholarship I featured coming from United Parcel Service (UPS). This one is, of course, more coveted and more difficult to get as the winners had to undergo two days of intense trials at the Bahrain International Circuit. Each […]