While most private colleges in Malaysia put overseas-based and twinning programmes at the forefront of their marketing strategy, Institute Perkim-Goon (IPG) - the largest business college in Penang - has revealed that its primary focus is on its local programmes.
According to the insititute’s officials, this is grounded on their belief that local programmes are better […]

If you happened to read the Star Malaysia newspaper on Saturday, you would have spotted an article on Natasha Capol, namesake of the Natasha jewellery collection, and aspiring actress under Singapore’s LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Bachelors of Arts in Acting degree programme.
Running over to the LASALLE-SIA site wouldn’t have told you much about the […]

It’s about time for a break from our traditional fare, i.e. scholarships. So, let’s talk about Coventry University’s recent addition to its graduate course range: a Masters of Science in Parapsychology.
According to the director of the new course over at the UK university, the programme will allow students to study “…strange phenomena ranging from ghostly […]

In an effort to ensure that Malaysian undergraduates come out of university with sufficent command of the English language, the Higher Education Ministry has made it mandatory for undergrads who are weak in English to undergo extra English classes from this year onwards.
While the implementation of the extra classes is still in the works, the […]

Singapore is surely seeing a rise in services-related diplomas and degrees if the recent offerings by Republic Polytechnic (RP) and now, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), are anything to go by. While Republic Polytechnic offers the very specific Diploma in Integrated Events Management, NTU attempts to reach out to the entire tourism sector with a Bachelor […]

New York University (NYU) and the National University of Singapore NUS) will join hands in offering a new graduate degree program entitled NYU@NUS. A fitting name indeed for this Masters of Laws program (LL.M.) given that it is a New York University course taught at the National University of Singapore.
But the special thing about […]