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 […]

In line with the Government’s aim of getting two of Malaysia’s public universities into the world’s Top 50, University Malaya (Malaysia’s highest ranked IPTA) has begun implementation of a new academic staff policy.
This policy requires those who apply for permanent academic staff positions in the university to have PhD degrees, and on the outset, this […]

Every miniority-race political party in Malaysia wants to stress how much they have done in helping their constituents secure tertiary education. Just like how MIC stressed that they would monitor all JPA scholarship and IPTA (public university) applications by Indians earlier this year, MCA recently announced that they have assisted around 1500 Chinese students in […]