A week or so back, it was annouced that Curtin University of Technology Sarawak would be offering five scholarships for PhD study (by research) at its School of Engineering.
Along with that announcement were several important points. One: Scholarships would be provided for all areas of engineering, but greater priority would given to applications for Advanced […]

The lack of places in Malaysian public universities to read medicine still remains a problem - even as 15 more places have been offered this year. While these additional 15 places bring the total number of places offered to 925, it is certain that many a student will have to resort to private (e.g. IMU) […]

Apparently, scoring a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.0 for your STPM will no longer guarantee your entry into highly demanded courses in Malaysian public universities - not that it ever did anyway. But let’s disregard my “unjustified” comment and get back to the facts.
According to the Higher Education Ministry, university applications are now […]

Only a couple of days back, it was announced that of the 74,967 Malaysian students who applied for entry into public universities, only 40,016 of them were provided places. Of course, not all of the 70+ thousand students qualified for entry, but the remaining 63,158 who did still means that more than 23,000 qualified students […]

Recent change in the Malaysian government’s policy on international schools means that international schools can now look forward to local students entering their student bodies, as well as tax incentives.
For those who have no knowledge of our government’s prior policy on international school enrollment, Malaysian students were previously not allowed to enrol in international schools […]

The Government of India, or more specifically, the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), recently introduced a set of 100 scholarships for Indians overseas to study in technical and non-technical tertiary institutes in India for 2006-2007. These scholarships would fall under a programme rather aptly named as the Scholarship Programme for Diaspora Children.
Of course, this […]

We actually featured one component, or rather, course of study sponsored by the Erasmus Mundus scholarships a while back, and most of the basics have already been covered in that blog post.
Here, we’d like to expand upon the narrow outlook we provided on the Erasmus Mundus Masters programme (and scholarships). Earlier, we saw how the […]

Well, that’s what the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) said to the Public Services Department (PSD) last saturday when faced with the disappointing results of the appeals stage of the JPA scholarship selections.
It seems that only five out of 143 appealing students in the state were provided JPA scholarships after their appeals. And 64 out […]