Sabah Foundation or Yayasan Sabah’s (YS) newly introduced local nursing scholarships were outlined in an earlier post today, so I felt it would be nice to round up YS’s scholarship offerings today as well by featuring their Sabah State Excellence Award Scholarship and Russia Medical Scholarship.
The former, i.e. the Sabah State Excellence Award Scholarship, is […]

Surprising? Well, it shouldn’t be. Given that all the other top universities have been raising the bar on their financial aid policies, it shouldn’t be a surprise at all that the No. 1 university in the world would follow suit.
Anyway, according to the press release, Harvard has increased the threshold of what it considers to […]

Yayasan Sabah (YS) or Sabah Foundation has announced that it will be offering a new scholarship scheme for Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) leavers to pursue their tertiary studies in nursing locally at Melaka International Islamic College of Technology.
30 SPM leavers will be provided this award, which is valued at around RM7,000 a year for the […]

The three-day hospital internship programme setup by Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) for our potential medical scholars - better known as the Program Pendedahan Kerjaya Seorang Doktor (Doctor Occupation Exposure Programme) - has ended, albeit unsuccessfully if you consider that most of our potential scholars has their resolve strengthened rather than weakened by the so-called “shock […]

Personally, this looks little more than the standard reassurance message sent out around this time of year, but Indian SPM and STPM students applying for public universities (IPTAs) and Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) scholarships should feel safer with the MIC’s rather strong announcement of support. The message basically asks Indian students who are applying for […]

The overseas version of this scholarship was featured only one post back, but that isn’t going to stop us from outlining the local version of Great Eastern’s scholarship awards.
There are a number of key differences between the local and overseas scholarships. For one, unlike its overseas variant, the Great Eastern Supremacy Local Scholarship Award covers […]

Great Eastern Life Assurance (Malaysia) Berhad recently announced that they are offering overseas, regional and local scholarships for Malaysian students to study a variety of courses, including Actuarial Science and Information Technology. However, this post will outline only one of these scholarships: The Great Eastern Supremacy Overseas Scholarship Award.
This particular scholarship is valued at […]

The announced three-day hospital internship for the 1,800 applicants of the Public Service Deparment (PSD) medical scholarships will begin tomorrow. While such hospital stints were optional, or rather, randomly assigned in the past, they are mandatory for all JPA med. applicants this year.
The short internships are meant to “…expose students to the rigors and realities […]