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No money, no worries
RENU BEGUM speaks to financial advisor Grace Soh, 56, from finexis advisory Pte Ltd, to find out more about how you can fund your dream university education
Q: What are some of the financial schemes that students can consider?
A: Some banks that they can approach for loans are POSB (Post Office Savings Bank) and Maybank, [...]
Editorial: The money behind the games
If you were not already aware that Singapore is on the cusp of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG), there is a very reasonable chance that you live under that proverbial rock.
The media frenzy perpetuated by the arrival of the Youth Olympic Flame to our shores on Aug 5 has led to a cornucopia of [...]
Response from President of NPSU
I refer to Dhevarajan Devadas’ letter, “A silent election”.
There are a few pointers which I would like to highlight with regards to that letter.
1) The election of the Students’ Union Committee member’s positions can only be done so by the council itself as stated in the constitution of NPSU:
(5) The council, presided [...]
A silent election
The student union needs to work harder to earn the students’ support
Change came to NP on Jun 28, but it came so quietly that you might have missed it.
The NP Students’ Union (NPSU) had elected a new President and Executive Committee on that day, but few students would have any inkling about the change.
This is [...]
Quench your burning questions!
Cheryl Tay, 26, an advisor with the Singapore Education board, addresses your top three concerns about studying overseas.
Q: Why should I choose a foreign university over a local one, when it is so much more expensive to study abroad?
A: Going to an overseas university opens up opportunities to meet and work with different people. Although [...]
At the crossroads of further education
npTribune looks at the pros and cons of studying in a local university versus one abroad
By Joshua Yeung & Ranon Yu
She may only be a first-year Product Design & Innovation student, but Lim Jia Xuan, 18, already has in mind a university that she wants to enrol in after she graduates.
The aspiring teacher who has [...]
It’s time to start managing your money
Ask any student what the terms amortisation, asset bubble or a business cycle mean, and you are almost guaranteed to be greeted with expressions of profound bafflement.
Unfortunately, this is the reaction of both the business and non-business students. Wealth management is not a learning programme suited only for those in the financial faculty. It is [...]
Editorial: Planning for success
Given the amount of glitz and glamour swirling around the recently concluded Graduation 2010, it only makes sense that this issue of reason highlights the people who will go down in the annals of NP history as champions who have made us all proud.
Through our conversations with these seven top scholars, we uncover the grit [...]
A society of couch critics
I am no expert on public trends, but if recent happenings are anything to go by, it appears that Singaporeans are up in arms a little too often.
Letters to Forum pages of newspapers and blog entries seem to either criticise something or lambast someone. From the lack of talent in this season’s Singapore Idol to [...]
Now or never
Michael Jackson left us too early.
So did Heath Ledger and Elvis Presley. Each of these three had touched the world and left some sort of lasting legacy in their wake. But they also had one more thing in common: Each of them had taken a turn, and spiraled downward into an inextricable maze of sleeping [...]
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