It was recently announced that there would be a 12 percent tuition fee hike for management studies at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Ahmedabad. Fees for post-graduate courses will be raised from Rs. 1.58 lakh to Rs. 1.77 lakh per annum, but lower income students will be spared from the additional burden. Additionally, […]

Finally. The Higher Education Ministry of Malaysia announced recently that more public university (IPTA) lecturers will be sent overseas to pursue their PhDs. This, of course, comes in the wake of the Government’s aim of having at least 75 percent of public university lecturers holding doctorate-level qualifications.
Currently, only 20 percent of our public university teaching […]

At about this time, almost every respectable US and UK university will be pushing their representatives around the world, trying to persuade their applicants to accept their offers. On this blog alone, we’ve highlighted a couple of universities taking the exhibition (UCL) and reception (Warwick) routes.
Those were United Kingdom universities of course. What about American […]

Surprising? Well, it shouldn’t be. Given that all the other top universities have been raising the bar on their financial aid policies, it shouldn’t be a surprise at all that the No. 1 university in the world would follow suit.
Anyway, according to the press release, Harvard has increased the threshold of what it considers to […]

Personally, this looks little more than the standard reassurance message sent out around this time of year, but Indian SPM and STPM students applying for public universities (IPTAs) and Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) scholarships should feel safer with the MIC’s rather strong announcement of support. The message basically asks Indian students who are applying for […]

With all the recent problems with the Higher Education Ministry’s online public university (IPTA) application websites (www.emoe.gov.my and www.mohe.gov.my), the original deadline of 10 working days after the release of examination results has been extended to March 31st for both STPM and SPM students. This, of course, comes in the wake of a barrage of […]

Remember when we talked about the nightmare of public university (IPTA) applications and placement in Malaysia, or when we discussed the Government’s announcement that not all top students would receive scholarships? Well, it seems that we have a somewhat expected response coming from State MCA Youth chief Datuk Tan Chin Meng.
He recently advised STPM high […]

Just like Harvard and Princeton, Stanford is now waiving fees for students from families with annual incomes of less than US$45,000. Of course, this particular form of financial aid is valid only for United States residents. Nevertheless, for American students from low-income families, this program represents almost US$47,000 worth of savings every year, as the […]