One of the more prominent hospitality groups in Asia, Hong Kong-based Compass Hospitality Co. Ltd., has signaled its entry into the Malaysian market by setting up the Compass Scholarship Foundation with Taylor’s University College.
An initial RM500,000 has been allocated for Malaysian students to study at Taylor’s University College, which is supposed to be enough […]

If you’re a Chemical Engineering student who is looking to apply to a New Zealand university, you might want to take into consideration the 1-year financial aid offered by the University of Canterbury to its second-year students.
Admittedly, a one-off award of up to $3,000 in your second-year at the university isn’t much, but it […]

Here’s a niche scholarship that was launched a few months back by Sapulut Forest Development Sdn Bhd. The scholarship is for students of Sabah origin to read a BSc. degree in Forestry or other Forestry-related programmes at University Malaysia Sabah.
As you would expect, the award fully covers tuition fees and at partly covers living expenses, […]

This post comes very late not only because Merdeka was almost two weeks ago, but also because the scholarship application date, i.e. the 30th of August, has already ended. In any case, better to spotlight it now just in case the Association of Banks Malaysia (ABM) decides to renew this programme (or a similar version […]

Those who have suffered before always find ways to prevent others from undergoing the same fate. But more often than not, we think only about our offspring. Luckily, this was not so for Mr. Wong, a Singaporean self-made millionaire, who recently donated S$1 million to the Singapore Management University (SMU) to establish the Wong Kwok […]

The results of this year’s Great Eastern Supremacy scholarship application process has been released - with 15 students being awarded scholarships ranging from RM6,000 (for local scholarships) to RM50,000 (for overseas scholarships).
The 15 scholarships, for various fields including actuarial science, economics, international affairs and the natural sciences, have been valued at RM735,600, indicating that most […]

Yeah, a no-brainer - but only to us students it seems. That’s why you guys visit this blog, eh? But private universities all around the world (e.g. Australia, Britian, New Zealand) don’t seem to get it, and are trying harder than ever to “catch up” to American tuition fee standards (think US$30,000+ per annum, and […]

Now that’s one long title. So, I’m sure you’ll forgive me if I refer to it using its acronym (MUPSA EEP) instead (still pretty long, isn’t it?). Anyway, Microsoft Malaysia - the Malaysian subsidiary of the World No. 1 OS vendor - gave out 292 scholarships under the MUPSA EEP to students under the Lions […]