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November 2, 2010 at 11:41 pm (Edit)
Yes, I do sympathize with the Singaporean students. Undergraduate Scholarships should be reserved 100% for Singaporeans, whose parents paid years of taxes.
Tony Tan and his minions were simply looking for quick and dirty ways to jack up the foreign student ratio in the local unis, so that they could look good on paper in the shortest amount of time.
They wanted to be able to boast to the ang mos that “NUS and NTU have 20% foreign students. See? Everyone in Asia wants to study in our unis”, while conveniently hiding the fact that NUS/NTU literally had to send professors to China/India and beg the foreign students to accept our money/scholarships.
In the early 1990’s, NUS/NTU were still able to convince top year one students from China’s Tier 1 universities like Tsinghua/Beijing University to transfer to NUS/NTU.
Fast forward to today, the 2010’s, NUS/NTU can only convince the bottom half of the top 40 unis in China to transfer to NUS/NTU.
Granted, there are still enough smart people in China, so those foreign students from the second tier Unis in China are still not idiots per se compared to the Singaporean students.
In the end, the MoE bosses in charge got their KPIs achieved, and they don’t care about the poor Singaporean families who had to send their children to college on bank loans.
In the US, undergraduate scholarships are no-fly zones, no foreigners are entitled to get one. But graduate students are a different problem entirely, they had to dangle carrots to entice foreign graduate students, who are hired as low-cost labor, simply because not many Americans want to do Graduate school. Again, true blue Americans get the form of fellowships, while foreigners get Research/Teaching assistantships.
The graduate scholarships in Singapore are also seriously messed up. The local unis are giving out essentially US style fellowships to foreign graduates students here, without needing them to do any teaching or work.
If they teach, graduate student on scholarships get paid ***additional*** $40/week! Singaporean graduate students on scholarships get slightly higher pay, $3000/mth versus $2500/mth if they passed their qualifiers.
BTW, to the person who commented on the limbless beggars. That professional beggar was from China. Hey, he made $100 per hour. He probably got in on some sort of social visit pass. I don’t know how he got it. When we open the windows too wide, all sorts of crap comes in, including bees, shit-loving flies, etc.
That is the price we pay for not installing mosquito netts on our windows.
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November 2, 2010 at 11:41 pm (Edit)
Yes, I do sympathize with the Singaporean students. Undergraduate Scholarships should be reserved 100% for Singaporeans, whose parents paid years of taxes.
Tony Tan and his minions were simply looking for quick and dirty ways to jack up the foreign student ratio in the local unis, so that they could look good on paper in the shortest amount of time.
They wanted to be able to boast to the ang mos that “NUS and NTU have 20% foreign students. See? Everyone in Asia wants to study in our unis”, while conveniently hiding the fact that NUS/NTU literally had to send professors to China/India and beg the foreign students to accept our money/scholarships.
In the early 1990’s, NUS/NTU were still able to convince top year one students from China’s Tier 1 universities like Tsinghua/Beijing University to transfer to NUS/NTU.
Fast forward to today, the 2010’s, NUS/NTU can only convince the bottom half of the top 40 unis in China to transfer to NUS/NTU.
Granted, there are still enough smart people in China, so those foreign students from the second tier Unis in China are still not idiots per se compared to the Singaporean students.
In the end, the MoE bosses in charge got their KPIs achieved, and they don’t care about the poor Singaporean families who had to send their children to college on bank loans.
In the US, undergraduate scholarships are no-fly zones, no foreigners are entitled to get one. But graduate students are a different problem entirely, they had to dangle carrots to entice foreign graduate students, who are hired as low-cost labor, simply because not many Americans want to do Graduate school. Again, true blue Americans get the form of fellowships, while foreigners get Research/Teaching assistantships.
The graduate scholarships in Singapore are also seriously messed up. The local unis are giving out essentially US style fellowships to foreign graduates students here, without needing them to do any teaching or work.
If they teach, graduate student on scholarships get paid ***additional*** $40/week! Singaporean graduate students on scholarships get slightly higher pay, $3000/mth versus $2500/mth if they passed their qualifiers.
BTW, to the person who commented on the limbless beggars. That professional beggar was from China. Hey, he made $100 per hour. He probably got in on some sort of social visit pass. I don’t know how he got it. When we open the windows too wide, all sorts of crap comes in, including bees, shit-loving flies, etc.
That is the price we pay for not installing mosquito netts on our windows.
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