about 6500 (incl sporean and foreigners) will study in
Oz U here in 3 years!!
UNSW is just a lesson for higher education enterprises in
SG---
can earn few bucks for u and me.
no need to paint the picture worse than the reality or better
than
the reality.
UNSW is a extreme case and EDB suffers has been compensated
by
UNSW.
I shall not just cite the bright sides here,just as opposition
party
or their allies shall not just put the dark sides here.
Just tell the facts---more oz U are coming and doing really
good:
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20080716-77122.html
JCU (James Cook)Singapore,
which started five years ago with 50 students, soon faced the
opposite problem of having to find a bigger site when its student
numbers swelled to 1,200. It was occupying six floors of the Spring
Singapore building in Bukit Merah.
It is moving to a new 18,500 sq m campus in Upper Thomson Road
next week, offering students more and bigger teaching rooms, as
well as sports facilities. It expects to have 3,500 students by
2012.
Said Ms Sharmaine, who is looking forward to the new academic
year in the new campus: 'Looks like UNSW had it wrong. It said
Asian students will not want to come to Singapore to enrol in
Australian university programmes. But look at how James Cook has
grown. And there are other Australian universities coming in as
well.'
She was referring to the Curtin
University of Technology, which announced in March that it
had partnered Australian education company Navitas to set up a
campus here. The venture will be financed to the tune of $40
million.
The Perth-based university will occupy the former Institute of
Technical Education campus in Balestier and start offering business
degree courses to over 1,000 students before the end of the
year.
It hopes to add more programmes including mass communications,
nursing, engineering and design modules and enrol up to 5,000
students eventually.
Another Australian institution, the University of Adelaide, which operates out
of Ngee Ann Kongsi's Tank Road premises, intends to double its
intake to 900 by next year.
And Perth-based Murdoch
University, which has been offering degree programmes at the
Singapore Manufacturers' Federation's (SMa) School of Management
premises in North Bridge Road, has spent $1 million to set up an
international study centre there.
It said the number of Singaporeans doing its degree courses here
has increased sharply from just 22 in 2004 to more than 1,000 and
it plans to double this by the end of next year.