Financial Times MBA Rankings

For those interested in pursuing MBA courses:

Bank Limits Fund Access by Colleges, Inciting Fears

Now that the global credit crunch is affecting the education industry. Its rather scary isnt. Another totally irrelevant point: Perhaps business schools should have a couple more courses on ethics, since in the real working world, grey areas are prevalent and it can all boil down to the bankers/salesperson’s ethical behaviour.

With Maths and Science

My Investment Banker friend was back in Singapore from the States for a holiday. She was surprised at the number of us who took Science degree in University. In the United States, she exclaimed, only those who want to do Medicine, will do a course in Science, since that is a pre-requisite.

Using newspapers to teach

Aptly described by the title, I’m in full support of promoting wider usage of newspaper in classroom. In my opinion, Newspaper are more interesting than textbooks, which is important, if you want the student’s attention. Start from Straits Times, and move on to the overseas paper for more critical reviews of world issues, I say.

Meet Mr Wikipedia

Another piece of interesting news from the Straits Times Online today. Next time you use Wikipedia, you know slighlty more about its history.
I’m not selling Wikipedia

Founder says the online resource serves more to help people than to make money

Ever-Widening Societal Gap

As a follow up to my previous entry, Philip Yeo has openly declared that he would give a scholarship to someone of a poorer background than someone better well of, if the 2 contending candidates are of equal caliber. He then went on to cite A-Star having an overall higher percentage of scholars from lower income families, as compared to PSC.

Overseas Scholarships & Bond Breakers

I have friends, and friends of friends, who are on overseas scholarships, and have been offered a lucrative job by the private sector. Some gave in to the temptation, others battled hard and long within themselves, and the rest wanted to serve out their bond.

Disneyland and the thing about Dreams

Disneyland’s “tagline”, if I may, is, “where Dreams come true”. From a branding perspective, I think it is a brilliant piece. What’s more dreamy than encouraging the young children that dreams can come true.

Perhaps it is so in America.

Otherwise, why would we be reading such pieces of news on our daily newspaper:

Mark Zuckerberg, 24, founder of Facebook, net worth of 15 billion.

Larry Page & Sergey Brin, both 35, founders of Google, net worth of 15- 18 billion

Michael Dell, Steve Jobs, and many others successful entrepreneurs are College dropouts.

How about in Singapore, one may ask.

Being someone who sees the glass half filled, I would rather latch onto the omnipotent globalization as depicted in the book “The World is Flat” – the advent of internet may eventually help produce that billionaire Internet tycoon in Singapore, which i hope is sooner rather than later.