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It took Non-Constituency MP Yee Jenn Jong of the Workers’ Party from two sittings in the Parliament to extract these figures out from the Ministry of Education (MOE).
In the first MOE’s reply last month, it only disclosed that 320 scholarships are awarded to Asean students each year, but it took a second enquiry from Mr Yee on Friday’s Parliamentary sitting (17 Feb) for MOE to disclose the much larger number of 1,700 scholarships which are awarded to non-Asean students annually.
When Mr Yee asked how MOE tracked the performance of the scholarship holders during their studies and whether the foreign students fulfilled their obligation to work here after graduation, Ms Sim replied that the academic performance of each scholarship recipient is tracked, and if their performance is poor, the scholarship is withdrawn.
It is not known how many of the foreign students have their scholarships withdrawn each year and what minimum performance is required of the foreign students by MOE.
- http://www.tremeritus.com/2012/02/1...on-are-awarded-to-foreign-students-each-year/
In the first MOE’s reply last month, it only disclosed that 320 scholarships are awarded to Asean students each year, but it took a second enquiry from Mr Yee on Friday’s Parliamentary sitting (17 Feb) for MOE to disclose the much larger number of 1,700 scholarships which are awarded to non-Asean students annually.
When Mr Yee asked how MOE tracked the performance of the scholarship holders during their studies and whether the foreign students fulfilled their obligation to work here after graduation, Ms Sim replied that the academic performance of each scholarship recipient is tracked, and if their performance is poor, the scholarship is withdrawn.
It is not known how many of the foreign students have their scholarships withdrawn each year and what minimum performance is required of the foreign students by MOE.
- http://www.tremeritus.com/2012/02/1...on-are-awarded-to-foreign-students-each-year/
