More expatriates opting for local schools
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Singapore-based American investment expert Jim Rogers enrols his daughter Happy in a Singapore school and he is not the only expatriate to do so.
Local schools are now a serious option to many foreigners, with more hired on local terms and receiving fewer expat perks.
On the plus side, the schools offer lower costs, good teachers and Chinese-language programmes.
The Ministry of Education declined to give The Sunday Times figures on foreign children in local schools. But expats have noticed this trend themselves. Ms Audrey Mitchell, 37, said that when her daughter Daisy, now 13, started Primary 3 at Tanjong Katong Primary School in 2007, there were only two or three Caucasians studying there.
-- ST
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why decline to give figures?
any idea?
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Recently my kid has a new classmates from aust.
And seem like neighbourhood school accepting more foreign students.
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yes i can see tt when i pass by the pri sch on the way to the mall..........
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that's only cos the ang moh expats can't afford international schools anymore .... they don't really have a choice ....
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They think local schools not enough competition so must accept more FT kids ma to give our students a more international feel
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Will school fees be raised as the schools "improve" their curriculum to cater to the growing diversity?
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alotta ppl think expats = ang mohs only
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Originally posted by MooKu:
Will school fees be raised as the schools "improve" their curriculum to cater to the growing diversity?
do you remember paying school fees for primary and secondary schools ? .....
only foreigners pay school fees .......
we only pay misc fees .... it was like $3.50 then ..... and about 5 bucks now ....
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Weally???
What if you go to schools like... RGS... cos I remember I was worrying about the school fees back then when I heard it was $200 per month...
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Originally posted by MooKu:
Weally???
What if you go to schools like... RGS... cos I remember I was worrying about the school fees back then when I heard it was $200 per month...
education is free for singaporeans up till secondary schools, and subsidized after ....
the only fees you pay is the misc fees, a few bucks a month.
so did you end up paying $200 a month ? ....
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Originally posted by MooKu:
Weally???
What if you go to schools like... RGS... cos I remember I was worrying about the school fees back then when I heard it was $200 per month...
cos is indep sch.
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Originally posted by Fatum:
education is free for singaporeans up till secondary schools, and subsidized after ....
the only fees you pay is the misc fees, a few bucks a month.
so did you end up paying $200 a month ? ....
Independent school a lot of other fees one. And to the rest of us, it is still "school fees" despite all the wrangling and labelling into school fees and miscellanous and/or eca fees.
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I guess companies are starting to not pay so much for their 'expats' children's fees anymore. Less perks, as the article writes.
i think this is a good thing in terms of helping 'foreigners' to blend into the community and build common understanding. I just hope it doesn't drive school fees up.
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Originally posted by hisoka:
Independent school a lot of other fees one. And to the rest of us, it is still "school fees" despite all the wrangling and labelling into school fees and miscellanous and/or eca fees.
true .... but school fees or misc fees, it's still 5 bucks a month .... I think most kids get at least that much for pocket money per day, these days ....
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ohhhhhh...!
... nope, didn't manage to get in lar
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Originally posted by QX179R:
Singapore-based American investment expert Jim Rogers enrols his daughter Happy in a Singapore school and he is not the only expatriate to do so.
Local schools are now a serious option to many foreigners, with more hired on local terms and receiving fewer expat perks.
On the plus side, the schools offer lower costs, good teachers and Chinese-language programmes.
The Ministry of Education declined to give The Sunday Times figures on foreign children in local schools. But expats have noticed this trend themselves. Ms Audrey Mitchell, 37, said that when her daughter Daisy, now 13, started Primary 3 at Tanjong Katong Primary School in 2007, there were only two or three Caucasians studying there.
-- ST
all the ah nehs, prc and 3rd world refugees of course go normal school lah.............
Jim Rogers is a well-known scrooge so what to expect ???
his daughter really named Happy ah ???
with his kind of money..........sure happy lah..........
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Expat perks dropping^^
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Do they mean that the quality of expats' pay packages dropped, or do they mean that the quality of expats dropped?
In the past, expats almost exclusively refers to Ang Mohs, and most of them do receive a higher pay than us locals.
Now,with lax immigration, any Tom, Dick, Harry,Ah Neh, Ah Tiongs can also be called an expat, as long as they manage to produce a university degree, regardless whether its authentic or not.
The Nehs and Tiongs here are not foreign talents, but rather, cheap labour. Classing them as expats alongside Ang Mohs will only lead to "depressed expats' pay package".
What would be more useful is to obtain statistics of the number of Ang mohs enroling in local schools, instead of using the term 'expats' which covers a far wider range of nationalities.
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expatriates are those that come here holding high positions and a fat pay check.
not all foreigners who work here are known as expats. as least not in that sense.
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Some of the 'perks' would may have included the company paying for their school fees. So if companies are starting to stop doing so, then this would be counted as 'fewer perks'.
Despite possibly still receiving quite a good pay, the kids then get sent to a 'local' school rather than the expensive international schools.
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Originally posted by deathmaster:
Do they mean that the quality of expats' pay packages dropped, or do they mean that the quality of expats dropped?
In the past, expats almost exclusively refers to Ang Mohs, and most of them do receive a higher pay than us locals.
Now,with lax immigration, any Tom, Dick, Harry,Ah Neh, Ah Tiongs can also be called an expat, as long as they manage to produce a university degree, regardless whether its authentic or not.
The Nehs and Tiongs here are not foreign talents, but rather, cheap labour. Classing them as expats alongside Ang Mohs will only lead to "depressed expats' pay package".
What would be more useful is to obtain statistics of the number of Ang mohs enroling in local schools, instead of using the term 'expats' which covers a far wider range of nationalities.
Are you one of the Ang Moh bitch?
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I really hope that the neighourhood school teachers will spar the local kids to study harder and compete with the foreign kid.
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Originally posted by likeyou:
I really hope that the neighourhood school teachers will spar the local kids to study harder and compete with the foreign kid.
I honestly don't believe that there's a difference.