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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The lack of places in Malaysian public universities to read medicine still remains a problem - even as 15 more places have been offered this year. While these additional 15 places bring the total number of places offered to 925, it is certain that many a student will have to resort to private (e.g. IMU) […]

Apparently, scoring a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.0 for your STPM will no longer guarantee your entry into highly demanded courses in Malaysian public universities - not that it ever did anyway. But let’s disregard my “unjustified” comment and get back to the facts.
According to the Higher Education Ministry, university applications are now […]

Only a couple of days back, it was announced that of the 74,967 Malaysian students who applied for entry into public universities, only 40,016 of them were provided places. Of course, not all of the 70+ thousand students qualified for entry, but the remaining 63,158 who did still means that more than 23,000 qualified students […]

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 […]

Fake degrees have already begun to filter into Malaysia, largely as a result of the Internet and foreign e-learning universities (i.e. online universities), and the Higher Education Ministry has apparently been monitoring the situation for quite some time. Recently, the Ministry announced that it would be collaborating further with the British-based National Academic Recitations Information […]