As global consumer confidence plummeted, concerns over unemployment and job uncertainty rose to a record level. According to the latest Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence survey, which is conducted biannually, global concerns over job security rose to 22% globally from 9%. Internet consumer in 31 of 50 countries surveyed cited job security as their main concern....

“To PhD or not to PhD” – is that the question? Is it really worth spending four years working for a Bachelor’s degree and then work another three to eight years for that mouth-gaping, awe-inspiring, no-nonsense title that is “doctor”? “No need to get PhD lah,” some relative might tell you. “Finish your Bachelor’s degree...

It is a strange feeling. There is excitement, but not jumping-up-and-down kind. A kind of silent enthusiasm one would not guess looking at unwell me, sniffling in the morning chill. There is also a niggling uncertainty, but I cannot quite find the words to describe it. I sit here, thinking about all the metaphorical resonances...

I do not trust university rankings. The main reason that I feel this way is that rankings do not work in the way that many people think that they do – The second reason I feel this way is that people tend to predicate the worth of someone’s education based solely upon these rankings, despite...

Being born into a family with many well-to-do relatives, I have been programmed to think of the education pathway of a Malaysian student to be like this… Step 1: Go to primary school. Step 2: Go to secondary school. Step 3: Go to college. Step 4: Go to university somewhere overseas. Step 5: Get a...

As I type this, all I see on my Facebook news feed are articles or videos related to the upcoming elections in our beautiful country of 1Malaysia. It’s my birthday too, and the only one wish is that the right party wins. And by the right party, I mean the party that’s been throwing free...