The poorest children are falling even further behind their wealthier classmates in the race to university, according to official figures released today.

RECORD numbers of would-be doctors are signing up to study medicine.

The promises of the digital world are everywhere. We use apps to help us learn a language, manage our money, lose weight, sleep better. We sign up for online professional certificate courses and stream thought-provoking lectures; firms increasingly conduct training via platforms and parents use digital tools to prepare children for the classroom.

WHEN you are in school, your teachers and parents would have kept on stressing that you should study hard, so that one day you can get a good job. Many students have heeded their advice and have been studying really very hard for the last 12 years or so.  .

TECHNICAL and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) includes formal, non-formal and informal learning that prepare young people with the knowledge and skills required in the world of work. .

THE thoughts and views of Nippon Paint Malaysia assistant general manager of marketing Datin Wong Meng Lee (pic).

Not everyone ones to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer. There are many students who prefer to work with their hands rather than their brains. Students who like physical activities can consider welding as a career. .

STUDENTS in the Primary schools would have completed their final examinations by now.  They are now idle.

LAST week we looked at some careers that special people can consider. .

MALAYSIA is very short of skilled workers. The government is trying ways and means to reduce foreign workers from working in Malaysia. .