While full details about Stanford University’s Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) Online High School will be released only on the 25th of April, there is already enough known about the world’s first virtual high school for gifted children to merit a post.
For one, we know that the online high school will offer not only […]

Three American scholarship recepients from Arizona share their experiences and give advice to students who might want to emulate their sucesses in winning various scholarships. The scholarships involved are the Dorrance Scholarship, the Everyday Heroes Scholarship and the Nina Pulliam Scholarship.
The Dorrance Scholarship is probably the most normal of the three, where academic results are […]

With the Institut Pengajian Tinggi Awam (IPTA) applications long past and Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Awam (STPM) results out, one of the few things remaining concerning a STPM student’s remaining classroom education is IPTA placement.
It has never been a secret that even the good students, with 3 or 4As, can easily end up with their fourth […]

I hate being a pessimist about the value of a university degree and the career prospects available to university graduates, but sometimes, the experiences of others do not lie. Not all degrees are created or treated equal, and not all university graduations result in the same career prospects.
An Australian ponders her years of study, through […]

USNews has an interesting article on A+ Options for ‘B’ Kids, i.e. options for students with less than outstanding high school results. The article fundamentally addresses the brand-consciousness of today’s high school students - with many unwilling to enter relatively good universities with strong programmes - simply because they never heard of them. To the […]

Over at theory.isthereason, Kevin blogs about his life story - how he managed to avoid local, i.e. Singaporean, scholarships and financed his graduate and post-graduate education in the United States through alternative means. Basically, after his Bachelors degree, he took up a Graduate Assistantship (something like Teaching and Research Assistantships) which pay a monthly allowance […]

Let us see, what about a Singaporean?
Step 1: Primary School for six (6) years
- Primary school education is compulsory for all Singaporean children, especially since primary school education is free for Singapore citizens (except for some misc. fees to individual schools)

I’ll begin my posting with a series on the paths various Asians take to get to university. Of course, I can’t be sure that what I’ve listed is complete, but I’ll try my best.
Lets begin with a Malaysian.
Does anyone want to know how a Malaysian gets to university? Let me roughly sketch the journey.