2009 August
Attended a talk about “Global Edupreneurs” by the Harriet Business Group today, fully expecting to hear about ideas about education- and instead found myself being sold a ~$4,999 training to become a salesperson to push the company’s education products to “foreign students”. I got to see the private…
Sister received her Direct Schools Admission letter from a few schools today. It basically guarantees her a place in the secondary school if she scores above a certain score (much like the UK system of university admissions). This creates a moral hazard for a 11-year old interested in (perhaps)…
Went to the Istana last night to witness the President’s Scholars ceremony. For a few fleeting moments of deja vu, I recalled that one year ago I had stood there on that stage, where the President had put a thin red folder with gold lettering in my hands. “Serve…
Cambridge is as different from Stanford (or the US system of education) as I can possibly imagine. Where Stanford allocates rooms based on a lottery system, Cambridge’s policy of pricing rooms differently results in the well off people living in nicer rooms. Where Stanford programs always ended off with…
Source: The Independent, UK
I lived for a few days in Cambridge University, visiting many of the Singaporeans there. One of the world’s oldest universities, its halls were once graced by greats such as Newton, Marlowe and so many other…
(This is the first in a series of backdated posts, of my backpacking trip through Europe before returning home)
A sign of defeat
Travelled from Stanford to London on the cheapest flight possible- Icelandair. Along the way I had a 10 hour…
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