Crowdfund Your Way to a Higher Education

By Chang Jia Ying

January 2016 FEATURE
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Thanks to the innovative efforts of a few youngsters, there is now a novel way to finance your way through university.Co-founded by undergraduates from International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and National University of Singapore (NUS), Skolafund is a recent online start-up that aims to help as many people as possible to obtain higher education. Following in the footsteps of large funding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the Malaysia-based Internet Mobile Projects Accelerator (Impact) start-up enables deserving students, particularly those...

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