Foreign students make up 18% of local uni intake in 2011
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SINGAPORE: International students make up 18 per cent of the total undergraduate intake in Singapore's universities for the academic year 2011.
Their proportion varies by faculty, from around one per cent in the highly popular Medicine and Law courses to 27 per cent in Science and Engineering.
Education Minister Heng Swee Keat said this in a written reply to MP Ang Wei Neng's queries in Parliament on the foreign student intake in universities.
Mr Heng said Science and Engineering courses produce much-needed manpower for key industries but are "less popular with talented Singaporeans".
On school fees, a small proportion of foreign students pay the full amount and do not enjoy any subsidies.
The rest are on the Tuition Grant scheme, which helps to defray their fees. International students who receive the tuition grant pay fees that are about 70 per cent higher than those paid by Singaporeans. In addition, they are required to work in Singapore for three years.
Some of them are also on various scholarships, which cover their tuition fees but require them to serve a longer bond period of six years.
In his National Day Rally speech in August, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said foreign undergraduate intake would be capped at present levels.
On scholarships offered to local students, a total of 30,300 Singaporeans received a scholarship or some form of financial assistance which helped fund their undergraduate education in the academic year 2010.
Mr Heng said the government intends to offer more scholarships to locals to nurture a strong core of Singaporean talent with the requisite skills to anchor key current and emerging economic sectors.
A taskforce, co-chaired by the Education Ministry and Economic Development Board together with key social and economic agencies, is looking into this and will announce recommendations in the first half of next year.
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there must be a mistake
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Lan jiao
this is bullshit
I don believe
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At least 25%
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Are you guys even students of local uni?
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Originally posted by gunner77:
Lan jiao
this is bullshit
I don believe
If they say it, it must be true.
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27 percent in science and engineering is too much. We should let other countries train engineers for us, not depriving our citizens of education opportunities to train talents for other countries.
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both NUS and NTU have corporatised already, no longer receive funding and control by MOE le. both uni fund their own activities and salaries of their staff
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fake.
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really. NUS and NTU have corporatised already. go google
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In April 2006, NTU was corporatised. Autonomy brings about increased flexibility and new opportunities, allowing NTU to draw on its strengths to enhance global education and research, and to soar to greater heights on the world stage.
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/aboutntu/ntuataglance/Pages/Ourhistory.aspx
NUS and NTU will be corporatised as not-for-profit companies limited by guarantee, similar to the current set-up of SMU. MOE will work closely with the universities to effect the necessary legislative changes to the existing NUS Act and NTU Act. Each university will be registered as a company limited by guarantee under the Companies Act, with its own Memorandum and Articles of Association.
http://www.moe.gov.sg/media/press/2005/pr20050412.htm
The corporatisation of NUS (the “University”) in April 2006 from a statutory board to a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee formed under the Companies Act (Cap. 50) of Singapore marked a new phase in its development. While corporatisation gives the University greater administrative and financial autonomy, it also calls for greater ownership and accountability, and a higher standard of corporate governance to safeguard the best interest of its stakeholders.
http://www.nus.edu.sg/annualreport/2006/corporate_governance.htm
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Love them, they bell curve me up when they can't write a word of fucking english.
Nobody is forcing me to associate with them- except for classes where groups are fixed, I have not had to share a project group with them.
I have freely worked with Europeans and Americans, who tend to throw parties.
I imagine the other foreigners in other project groups have been further bell-curved me up.
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Originally posted by alize:
Love them, they bell curve me up when they can't write a word of fucking english.
Nobody is forcing me to associate with them- except for classes where groups are fixed, I have not had to share a project group with them.
I have freely worked with Europeans and Americans, who tend to throw parties.
I imagine the other foreigners in other project groups have been further bell-curved me up.
Party trash?
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30300 scholarships in a year refers to those award given to students from Primary 1 all the way to bond-free PSB. That includes bursaries, good progress award, corhort and level scholarship award, top academic performances, sports scholarships etc balajan awards
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It is definitely more than 18%. This article contradicts with that from wikileaks on local uni intake.
There is nothing we can do to improve it as majority of the Singaporeans have given the government the mandate to do as they like.
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Originally posted by gorgorlokaychyong:
It is definitely more than 18%. This article contradicts with that from wikileaks on local uni intake.
There is nothing we can do to improve it as majority of the Singaporeans have given the government the mandate to do as they like.
Wikileaks more trustworthy than our local newspapers?
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Originally posted by charlize:
Wikileaks more trustworthy than our local newspapers?
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Originally posted by Bio-Hawk:
More than SG papers.I only believe what the local newspapers report.
Really.