To all who are planning to pursue any course in the
SAE, Singapore Here is my word of caution.
This will not be of use to you. If you do some research
online, you will know that gearslutz is the only place where
professionals in the audio industry are around. Read the posts
about SAE there, You will see you sae works.
In simple words, Take Money > Give certificate.
SAE employs their own students, which mean you are
learning from people who could not make it in the industry or
somewhere gave up.
The teacher's have a very wrong attitude, its more like
"Do it by yourself" They do not encourage the students or even
create interest in the students. Words such as the "f word" the "b
word" are openly spoken by the teachers in lectures.
Every time i asked a teacher whether they had time to
have a listen to a mix i did the answer was "I'm busy now, maybe
later?"
In the year 2012, the batch of audio engineering has a
total of 30 students, they all have been split in 2 batches, one
morning and one afternoon.
Most of time times, the morning batch end up coming in
the afternoon making it a huge class and thus the attention level
by the teachers is very low.
We as students have to book studio in order to do our
recordings, and because of the high count of the students, there is
no availability. I recently had a booking and had a lecture right
after it.
I needed a table to keep my artists piano, The so
called TSO's never helped me pick up the table, I had to by myself
drag it all the way to the studio and back to the
storage.
When i entered class, the teacher said that i had been
marked absent or late which i don't remember due to the stress that
i had gone through with all the picking up and carrying of the
studio equipment.
The internet in the school is always very slow, when
asked why, they blame it on the students for using p2p. Using an
analysis, I could see that the p2p transmission was blocked. Thus
their claim of p2p being used causing slow internet was a lie.
The student lobby is always noisy, where even the staff
use abusive words and laugh out loudly. The environment is not of a
school but that of a fun vacation for students.
After paying a large amount of money, i had never
expected this from sae.
I so far regret taking admission in the sae
singapore.
They will give a very great service before you are
admitted.
Why?
They need the money, simple.
None. Everything they give, they will charge you for
it.
The teachers do provide education, but nothing out of
the ordinary.
Most of the teacher have their own companies so they
will not pay much attention to the students.
Full of utter non sense. They have the m box mini and
the m box interfaces, headphones most of which are really
bad.
Teachers are found eating / drinking in the studios
whereas they were very strict in the first place about drinking or
eating in the studios.
Even in the student lobby, the staff members are seen,
having a fun time, shouting, singing loudly and eating where there
are signs which say no eating allowed.
Future in the industry?
none, unless you are the teacher's pet. I have noticed,
the teacher's give more attention to the students who are
exceptional.
The one's who need attention are left hanging