借此版人气，发个跟职场看似无关但有关的问题

新加坡的反外情绪高昂的时候，终于有人开始质问SM1,SM2,SM3的奖学金计划。下面是原文。本人不与评论，只是发来大家看一下。斑竹若是觉得不适合此版，请帮我放去焦点。谢谢。


http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/08/18/singapore-is-so-generous-towards-foreign-students-but-not-own-singaporean-students/

The most ridiculous of Singapore university policy is giving free tuition grants (between $19,000 to $89,000 per year per student) to ALL international students and local students alike studying in Singapore polytechnics/universities (e.g. for NUS, see https://share.nus.edu.sg/registrar/info/ug/UGTuitionCurrent.pdf). Total tuition grant given to international students is estimated to be at least $727,985 millions per year (average at about $1.012 billions per year).

“The Tuition Grant Scheme (TGS) was introduced by the Government to subsidise the high cost of tertiary education in Singapore. The TGS is currently open to students enrolled for full time undergraduate/diploma courses (subject to guidelines under existing policy). In exchange for Government subsidy received under the TGS, all non-Singaporean students (including Singapore Permanent Residents), are required to sign a TG agreement in which they will be contractually obliged to work in Singapore for a minimum period of 3 years upon graduation.” (https://tgonline.moe.gov.sg/tgis/normal/index.action )

Singapore is the only country in the world that is so generous towards international students and not generous towards her own Singaporean students. In other countries, international university students will have to pay about 3 to 4 times the local student tuition fee rate. However, in Singapore, international students and Singaporean students pay little in difference in tuition fees. The minister is aware that 90% or more of these international students will not remain in Singapore after graduation and the so called “obligation” (our minister said that he hopes for 10% to choose to stay and become PR or citizens). This “obligation” is too loosely defined that it allows these foreign graduates to stay in Singapore legally without any contribution to our nation building (we cannot force them to work if they were to say that they cannot find suitable jobs in Singapore.)

Questions:

Why give tax payers money (average $1 billions) to more than 38,000 international students every year?

What do we gain in return from these international recipients?

Why is there no limit to the number of international recipients and no competition needed for the tuition grant?

Why not give these tuition grants to Singaporean students who cannot get a place in local universities to do it overseas or do with foreign university partners in Singapore, such as those conducted in SIM, SMA, Kaplan, etc?

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SGP

* This comment was first posted on the thread ‘Local unis say foreign students pull up standards’ (http://www.temasekreview.com/2011/08/16/local-unis-say-foreign-students-pull-up-standards/).