So, are JPA scholarships and special-needs students compatible? Heck, why do I even need to ask this question? If there were multiple government scholarships available, with some accepting disabled students, while others not (like in Singapore, where military-based overseas scholarships only accept those who have successfully undergone their national service programme), then my first question […]

Today, we have with us something slightly different from the norm. Instead of featuring a scholarship meant for students, we will be talking about a scholarship targeted for teachers.
The AFS Educators Exchange Programme Scholarship is a scholarship for a two week long exchange programme for educators to go to New Zealand. Already, four applicants have […]

Fake degrees have already begun to filter into Malaysia, largely as a result of the Internet and foreign e-learning universities (i.e. online universities), and the Higher Education Ministry has apparently been monitoring the situation for quite some time. Recently, the Ministry announced that it would be collaborating further with the British-based National Academic Recitations Information […]

British University in Dubai (BUiD) – one of the top research-based institutions in the Middle East – is offering an expanded range of scholarships for students beginning Masters programmes beginning September 2006. The scholarships cover a wide range of potential applicants, and is aimed at extending access to higher education and encouraging diversity in BUiD’s […]

It was recently announced that there would be a 12 percent tuition fee hike for management studies at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Ahmedabad. Fees for post-graduate courses will be raised from Rs. 1.58 lakh to Rs. 1.77 lakh per annum, but lower income students will be spared from the additional burden. Additionally, […]

Finally. The Higher Education Ministry of Malaysia announced recently that more public university (IPTA) lecturers will be sent overseas to pursue their PhDs. This, of course, comes in the wake of the Government’s aim of having at least 75 percent of public university lecturers holding doctorate-level qualifications.
Currently, only 20 percent of our public university teaching […]

Three American scholarship recepients from Arizona share their experiences and give advice to students who might want to emulate their sucesses in winning various scholarships. The scholarships involved are the Dorrance Scholarship, the Everyday Heroes Scholarship and the Nina Pulliam Scholarship.
The Dorrance Scholarship is probably the most normal of the three, where academic results are […]

At about this time, almost every respectable US and UK university will be pushing their representatives around the world, trying to persuade their applicants to accept their offers. On this blog alone, we’ve highlighted a couple of universities taking the exhibition (UCL) and reception (Warwick) routes.
Those were United Kingdom universities of course. What about American […]