It was announced recently that the FireFly agencies (mostly agencies under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore) awarded some 40 scholarships this year - double that of last year’s numbers (though certainly not near peak values of some years).
This is probably due to the higher number of students willing to take up their […]

After so much fuss over the lack of a JPA-class (think open to all Malaysians) scholarship for postgraduate education and the recent launch of a PhD scholarship programme for public university lecturers, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the Malaysian Government has decided to introduce the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Scholarship (a.k.a. King’s Scholarship) for those […]

Wow. I’ve no right to question the reasoning behind Ms. Lin’s decision to reject a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - one of the top, if not the top engineering university in the world - scholarship to teach physics and maths in a secondary school, but I’d like to raise a few points for those […]

If you are an Asian who wants to pursue graduate studies in Public Policy or Public Administration, look nowhere else but the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Why? Because even you’d be surprised at the number of full scholarships available for both courses at NUS.
There are three scholarships available […]

Three days ago, there was a post on how the Government should setup a PhD scholarship scheme for public university (IPTA) lecturers of all races. Today, the Government announces that such a scheme, valued at RM1.2 billion, would be implemented under the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP).
This is either prescience, or… sheer forgetfulness. But whatever it […]

Late last month, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that it was allocating S$30 million over the next 5 years on a Finance Sector Development Fund (FSDF). And a large portion of this budget is to be disbursed through the Finance Scholarship Programme (FSP) - a postgraduate scholarship scheme for targeted fields including actuarial […]

Every year, International School Kuala Lumpur (ISKL) - one of Malaysia’s most prestigious international schools (few as they are) - awards two scholarships for post-SPM students to pursue the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme.
Each award is worth more than RM50,000 per year, and covers tuition and examination fees over at ISKL. Without doubt, these are […]

According to a recent news release, the Singapore Defence Science and Technology Agency awarded 41 undergraduate scholarshps this year for courses in science and technology (duh…).
While it was not clear whether the 41 awards consisted of only overseas scholarships or a combination of both local and overseas ones, based on the terms of the scholarship […]