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01-04-2014, 12:10 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
$500m spending on non-citizens in a year?
With the continuace of the policy to have 16% of the first intake reserved for foreigners, plus an unknown number of permanent residents (PRs), and the bulk of graduate students being non-citizens – I estimate that the total spending in a year on non-citizens by way of scholarships from secondary to graduate courses, tuition grant for undergraduates, etc, to be about $500 million.
My estimate is based on the latest Parliamentary replies in this regard, as well as whatever statistics that I have been able to get my hands on and written about recently.
We should conduct a review of our education policy on issues like funding for foreigners, places for Singaporeans, consequential out-of-pocket expenses by Singaporeans who study in private universities locally and overseas, etc.
Moreover, given the above, what is the justification to increase university fees again, when the universities have huge surpluses of hundreds of millions of dollars?
Leong Sze Hian
- http://leongszehian.com/?p=8425
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?178427-We-are-spending-500-million-p-a-on-foreign-students&goto=newpost).
$500m spending on non-citizens in a year?
With the continuace of the policy to have 16% of the first intake reserved for foreigners, plus an unknown number of permanent residents (PRs), and the bulk of graduate students being non-citizens – I estimate that the total spending in a year on non-citizens by way of scholarships from secondary to graduate courses, tuition grant for undergraduates, etc, to be about $500 million.
My estimate is based on the latest Parliamentary replies in this regard, as well as whatever statistics that I have been able to get my hands on and written about recently.
We should conduct a review of our education policy on issues like funding for foreigners, places for Singaporeans, consequential out-of-pocket expenses by Singaporeans who study in private universities locally and overseas, etc.
Moreover, given the above, what is the justification to increase university fees again, when the universities have huge surpluses of hundreds of millions of dollars?
Leong Sze Hian
- http://leongszehian.com/?p=8425
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?178427-We-are-spending-500-million-p-a-on-foreign-students&goto=newpost).