Posts Tagged ‘ scholarship ’
I think that it is dumb. According to TheStar, our government is considering to limit the number of subjects taken by SPM students to ensure fairer scholarship selection. Although I do not think that the current free-for-all was a good thing to have, I do not agree with this methodology to address the issue of [ READ MORE ]
I attended the scholarship forum organised by DAP yesterday, mainly because I am personally interested in education matters and also because I was curious as to what kind of things does DAP have to say about it. They managed to present some data and I actually thought that things weren’t as bad as it may [ READ MORE ]
Since this is an annual thing, I thought that I should just put a few words down to tell the kids who got rejected by JPA – Don’t Give Up! Dear JPA Reject, I shall use the words that I had once heard, from a good professor of mine: “Although you may feel dejected, do not feel [ READ MORE ]
Like I said before, I’ve been busy ’spring cleaning’ my house these last couple of week – tossing out 30 years of junk is not an easy undertaking. As a result, I have come across a lot of old memories and treasures from the past. Surprisingly, I found a copy of my undergraduate scholarship offer [ READ MORE ]
Education scholarships. Our government disburses many of them through its many agencies and government linked companies. We are fortunate in that we have one of the most generous national governments, when it comes to educational funding. However, there are many things about these scholarships that trigger an emotional response when people talk about them. This reminds [ READ MORE ]
The recent suggestion by our Selangor MB that UiTM (Universiti Teknologi MARA) open up it’s doors to people of other races and foreigners, has been met with all kinds of responses. To those who do not know, UiTM is pretty much a single-ethnic university, which was founded by MARA, a government agency created to funnel [ READ MORE ]
“Simply put, Admiral, you have already used the stick. It’s time to use a carrot.” — Dr Gaius Baltar, Battlestar Galactica (S2E10). A news story appeared in TheStar today, regarding our government medical students who are studying overseas. The article goes on to describe the phenomenon where “medical students sent abroad to study on government scholarships, [ READ MORE ]
At our most recent TehTarik gathering, I have been asked to anchor our next discussion on Malaysian issues. The last session was a success and we all managed to learn things about Malaysia that we did not know of before. So, I would like to try to build on that and make [ READ MORE ]