While I was reading about the recent Bangalore leg of the International Development Programme (IDP) Education Fair, I noticed a reference to the Australian Peace Scholarships. During the Fair, IDP announced that there were four Peace Scholarship places up for grabs for Indian nationals, where each scholarship would be worth AU$88,000. So, I dug a bit further. Yeah, […]

A recent Star Online article on a few of our STPM top scorers reminded me about the Monbukagakusho Japanese Scholarships – full scholarships provided by the Japanese Government for nationals of around 55 countries, including Malaysia, to study in Japanese universities. Scholars under this programme are fully exempted of paying any official study-related fees, e.g. […]

In my previous post, the UEM Group Overseas Scholarships for 2006 were featured. In this post, we will be looking at the second scholarship programme being advertised by United Engineers (Malaysia) Berhad - the RSGTF Local Scholarships. While this scholarship programme is only valid for local universities, there are certain similarities with UEM’s overseas scholarship […]

United Engineers (Malaysia) Berhad - one of Malaysia’s foremost enginering and construction conglomerates - recently announced their UEM Group Scholarships for this year. While their advert. marketed both their overseas and local (RGSTF) scholarships, I’ll only write about the overseas scholarships in this post.
The UEM overseas scholarships cover both your pre-university and university education, with […]

Just like Harvard and Princeton, Stanford is now waiving fees for students from families with annual incomes of less than US$45,000. Of course, this particular form of financial aid is valid only for United States residents. Nevertheless, for American students from low-income families, this program represents almost US$47,000 worth of savings every year, as the […]

Given the large number of straight-A Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) students this year, the Malaysian Government has already begun taking some evasive measures regarding the annual Public Services Department (PSD) or Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) scholarships.
After it was announced recently that 1,300 overseas JPA scholarships would be provided to successful students this year, JPA must […]

This post is not unlike my previous post, where I write about “obvious” problems that seem to go unsolved, even with quite a bit of negative publicity consistently rising up about them. Just like the previous post, this one is about Malaysia’s public universities or IPTAs. But this time, I’m addressing the root of the […]

With the Institut Pengajian Tinggi Awam (IPTA) applications long past and Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Awam (STPM) results out, one of the few things remaining concerning a STPM student’s remaining classroom education is IPTA placement.
It has never been a secret that even the good students, with 3 or 4As, can easily end up with their fourth […]