SINGAPORE GOVT GIVING TUITION GRANTS WORTH $ 210 MILLION TO FOREIGN STUDENTS AND IN THE LAST YEAR 1700 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND 2200 UNIVERSITY STUDENTS RECEIVED THE SAME On Monday, Education Minister Heng Swee Keat had revealed that the Ministry of Education (MOE) has given international students tuition grants of a total of about $210 million per year. He also revealed that 1,700 international students and 2,200 university students had received tuition grants. When you look back at what MOE had revealed in 2011, you will be able to get a clearer picture. MOE had said that, “almost all PRs and IS (international students) are in receipt of MOE’s Tuition Grant (TG) scheme“. So, wait a minute, Heng had said that 6% (of each matriculation cohort) or 1,700 in the polytechnics and 13% or 2,200 the publicly-funded universities had received tuition grants. And if “almost all … international students are in receipt of MOE’s Tuition Grant scheme”, then what does this really mean? If it might be unclear at first, it is because of the way the reply was phrased. On first reading, you might think that only 6% of international students in the polytechnics and 13% of the international students in the universities receive tuition grants, right? Actually, no. The 6% and 13% actually refers to the proportion of the total student population, including Singaporeans. Then how many international students are there exactly? For the purpose of this article, we will zoom in to look at the university cohort. 18% University Students Are International Students, 13% On Tuition Grants, 5% On Scholarships? MOE had revealed that, “for the past ten years, … the number of International Student (IS) (is) at 20% of the total intake… For example, in AY2011, IS comprised 18% while PRs were 4% of undergraduate intake.” So, if there were 18% international students, and only 13% had received tuition grants, what happened to the other 5%?
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:10:11 +0000
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