How many PRC students is the Singaporean government
sponsoring?
Not very sure
What is the value of each grant?
It depends on whether you want to calculate the fees in terms of
subsidise or unsubsidise school fees. Gov is supposed to have paid
80% of school fees for us. If going by subsidise school fees, the
total fees for 4 years should be 5000X4 about 20k. However the
school fees should be somewhere between 5000-6000, not 5000. Actual
figures uncertain. Every month they get about $500++ total for
living expenses and hostel expenses. That will be 4X12X500 =
24k.
This figure has not included the period they stayed over in
singapore to learn english (range from 1/2 year to 2, depend on
whether you have been selected from their university or from their
High school) or the coming over and return airline tickets. (Coming
over to singapore is sponsored while after graduation they get a
free ticket back to China too)
If you ask me, the value is about 60k++. If going by unsubsidise
school fees, it will be much more
What does the Singaporean government get out of sponsoring these
students
They must stay here for 6 years. The good thing is that since
they are scholars studying Engineering, they do help in increasing
the number of engineers here. They are also good in studies making
them worthy reseachers. Singapore need a lot of engineers here.
Either one forced singaporean to be engineering or one have to
resort to this costly method to increase the numbers of engineering
here.
In relation to question 3, what can the PRC students do that the
local population cannot
They offer an increase in numbers in engineers here. They seems
to be better academically. They boost the racial mix here. They
increase the singapore population. This policy is relatively
appreciated by China Gov too as a sign of friendship between the 2
countries. They "widen" the gene pool here.
Does this kind of grant apply to students of other nations
It is applied to Indian scholars too. ASEAN scholars have
another scheme where they work for 2 years studying at subsidised
school fees.
What the hell's a "study mama"?
Well... it seems that China student coming over here to study
tend to suffer from depression since they have no kins here. Some
of them are also intimidated by the Chinese scholars here.
They appears to be very attached to their parents since they are
the only child. Heard that there are a number of China scholars
committing suicide after they arrived over here and cannot cope
with depression. Therefore Singapore allow their mother to come
over to work. The mother appear not to get any grant of money, just
a work permit and had to find work to support themselves.
