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Are foreign talents from India and Philippines real talents?
July 12th, 2011 |
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Are the foreign talents from India and Philippines real talents?
In a Straits Times’ article (5 Jul 2011), NUS and NTU were mentioned of being ranked highly in the Quad-Quarrelli Symonds World Top Universities Ranking. NUS and NTU have indeed, done a good job by coming in at 31st and 74th respectively. Congratulations!
Given that we have a huge pool of foreign talents from India and Philippines, it makes sense to see how these countries’ tertiary colleges fared. It will also be interesting to see how Singapore stack up against all other ASEAN countries.
This is what I found on the website of Quad-Quarrelli Symonds:
Unfortunately our polys are not considered colleges otherwise I think our polys could even be ranked heads and shoulders above all the India and Philippines universities.
It immediately raises concerns on the selection process and the criteria used for granting employment passes, s-passes and PR status to the professionals graduated from the universities in both India and Philippines.
Yet we know most of the PMET jobs in Singapore are largely staffed by supposedly, ‘talents’ from these two countries. The implication of having huge inflow of these low quality graduate imports to Singapore is worrying at the least:
1. Firstly, it is no wonder that our national productivity rate has dropped to such an alarming level that the government has to step in with measures to arrest it.
2. As we continue to push towards the goal of being one of the most advanced commercial, medical and financial centers in the world, we have to ensure our workers and output are world class in order to inspire confidence in foreign investors. How can this be achieved when our foreign talents (from India and Philippines) are, at best, from universities ranked 187th and 307th in the world (not even counting those ranked 400th-600th)?
3. The low qualifications and therefore low wages of these foreign workers confirm once and for all the reality that Singaporeans’ wages are being suppressed.
4. We are short changing our highly educated and highly qualified graduates from both our universities and polytechnics by denying them job opportunities through employing foreign workers from those low quality universities in India and Philippines.
5. We are in a sense a first world country with a third world workforce. Not surprisingly, if we continue down this road, we will see Singapore regressing from a first world economy to a third world’s.
Given that there are so many Indian nationals and Filipinos working in our healthcare industry, I shudder to think that we are entrusting our health treatment and our life to a group of people whose qualifications are not even highly recognized in the world.
Are we becoming a charitable collection center of lowly qualified foreigners from low quality universities in India and Philippines? But then I could be wrong. Maybe every single foreign talent from India and Philippines could have been educated in Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Princeton…. no less.
We must revisit our foreign talent policy for the PMET jobs! Return these jobs to our well-qualified Singaporeans.
.
Tiger
* This comment was first posted on the thread ‘Filipino: We make Singapore a better place to live’ (http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/07/06/filipino-we-make-singapore-a-better-place-to-live/).
Are foreign talents from India and Philippines real talents?
Are the foreign talents from India and Philippines real talents?
In a Straits Times’ article (5 Jul 2011), NUS and NTU were mentioned of being ranked highly in the Quad-Quarrelli Symonds World Top Universities Ranking. NUS and NTU have indeed, done a good job by coming in at 31st and 74th respectively. Congratulations!
Given that we have a huge pool of foreign talents from India and Philippines, it makes sense to see how these countries’ tertiary colleges fared. It will also be interesting to see how Singapore stack up against all other ASEAN countries.
This is what I found on the website of Quad-Quarrelli Symonds:
http://www.topuniversities.com/
World University Rankings 2010
Rank, School Name, Country, Size, Score
31 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, XL 82.78
74 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, L 69.77
180 Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, XL 50.21
187 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India, M 48.79
202 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), India, M 47.39
207 Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia, L 47.09
228 Mahidol University, Thailand, L 43.74
236 University of Indonesia, Indonesia, XL 42.90
249 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India, S 41.95
262 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, S 40.87
307 Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, M 36.38
309 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia, L 36.16
311 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, M 36.13
314 University of the Philippines, Philippines, XL 35.90
321 Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, XL 35.25
365 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia, L 31.58
371. University of Delhi, India, XL 31.21
401-450 Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia, L 28.60
451-500 De La Salle University, Philippines, M 24.66
451-500 Thammasat University, Thailand, XL 23.40
451-500 Airlangga University, Indonesia, L 22.60
451-500 University of Mumbai, India, XL 22.38
501-550 Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, XL 20.49
501-550 Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia, L 18.16
501-550 University of Calcutta, India, XL 21.37
501-550 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, S 21.94
551-600 Kasetsart University, Thailand, XL 16.91
551-600 Khon Kaen University, Thailand, 16.74
551-600 University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, XL 17.15
551-600 University of Pune, India, S 15.73
601+ Diponegoro University, Indonesia, XL 13.51
601+ Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia, L 12.25
601+ University of Brawijaya, Indonesia, XL 9.00
The revelation is shocking! The best university from India is the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) ranked 187th! The best university from Philippines is Ateneo de Manila University ranked 307th!World University Rankings 2010
Rank, School Name, Country, Size, Score
31 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, XL 82.78
74 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, L 69.77
180 Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, XL 50.21
187 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India, M 48.79
202 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), India, M 47.39
207 Universiti Malaya (UM), Malaysia, L 47.09
228 Mahidol University, Thailand, L 43.74
236 University of Indonesia, Indonesia, XL 42.90
249 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India, S 41.95
262 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, S 40.87
307 Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, M 36.38
309 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia, L 36.16
311 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, M 36.13
314 University of the Philippines, Philippines, XL 35.90
321 Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, XL 35.25
365 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia, L 31.58
371. University of Delhi, India, XL 31.21
401-450 Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia, L 28.60
451-500 De La Salle University, Philippines, M 24.66
451-500 Thammasat University, Thailand, XL 23.40
451-500 Airlangga University, Indonesia, L 22.60
451-500 University of Mumbai, India, XL 22.38
501-550 Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, XL 20.49
501-550 Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia, L 18.16
501-550 University of Calcutta, India, XL 21.37
501-550 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, S 21.94
551-600 Kasetsart University, Thailand, XL 16.91
551-600 Khon Kaen University, Thailand, 16.74
551-600 University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, XL 17.15
551-600 University of Pune, India, S 15.73
601+ Diponegoro University, Indonesia, XL 13.51
601+ Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia, L 12.25
601+ University of Brawijaya, Indonesia, XL 9.00
Unfortunately our polys are not considered colleges otherwise I think our polys could even be ranked heads and shoulders above all the India and Philippines universities.
It immediately raises concerns on the selection process and the criteria used for granting employment passes, s-passes and PR status to the professionals graduated from the universities in both India and Philippines.
Yet we know most of the PMET jobs in Singapore are largely staffed by supposedly, ‘talents’ from these two countries. The implication of having huge inflow of these low quality graduate imports to Singapore is worrying at the least:
1. Firstly, it is no wonder that our national productivity rate has dropped to such an alarming level that the government has to step in with measures to arrest it.
2. As we continue to push towards the goal of being one of the most advanced commercial, medical and financial centers in the world, we have to ensure our workers and output are world class in order to inspire confidence in foreign investors. How can this be achieved when our foreign talents (from India and Philippines) are, at best, from universities ranked 187th and 307th in the world (not even counting those ranked 400th-600th)?
3. The low qualifications and therefore low wages of these foreign workers confirm once and for all the reality that Singaporeans’ wages are being suppressed.
4. We are short changing our highly educated and highly qualified graduates from both our universities and polytechnics by denying them job opportunities through employing foreign workers from those low quality universities in India and Philippines.
5. We are in a sense a first world country with a third world workforce. Not surprisingly, if we continue down this road, we will see Singapore regressing from a first world economy to a third world’s.
Given that there are so many Indian nationals and Filipinos working in our healthcare industry, I shudder to think that we are entrusting our health treatment and our life to a group of people whose qualifications are not even highly recognized in the world.
Are we becoming a charitable collection center of lowly qualified foreigners from low quality universities in India and Philippines? But then I could be wrong. Maybe every single foreign talent from India and Philippines could have been educated in Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Princeton…. no less.
We must revisit our foreign talent policy for the PMET jobs! Return these jobs to our well-qualified Singaporeans.
.
Tiger
* This comment was first posted on the thread ‘Filipino: We make Singapore a better place to live’ (http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/07/06/filipino-we-make-singapore-a-better-place-to-live/).
