I am distressed to know that foreign faculty has become a significant majority at some social science departments in local universities (“Wanted: Local talent in varsities”; last Saturday). Talent comes with many different passports. Our universities should rightly attract brilliant minds from all over the world, and must continue to do so. But there must be a set of core values that anchors everything. For public-funded universities, the Singaporean soul must be part of these core values. How much should we be sacrificing our Singaporean core for world rankings?
Posted on: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 07:30:08 +0000