Posted elsewhere on the internet :
When I went to NUS, my friends who didn't get at least B3 in GP
had to take an English bridging module, and have to keep retaking
it until they have passed it in order to graduate.
A girl friend had 2As 2Bs but failed GP wasn't even allowed to
apply for local uni.
So my question is this, why are we giving free scholarship plus
living expenses allowance to students particularly from china,
despite their brilliant results, when they can't speak a smattering
of English?
I welcome competition yes, but let's compete on fair ground.
I don't expect government to give us priority but here they are
obviously shortchanging its own people.
Other universities take in foreign students not only because of
grades but may also be due to higher school fees. In SG, foreigners
come study free and go home.
I was on a long flight home from USA one day, stop over in HK, a
china auntie got on next to me. She couldn't fill up her
immigration form. So I helped her.
I asked her what's address at destination (SG) she said NTU. Her
daughter was given a scholarship to study here. She told me
bluntly, "your country so small, not even the size of a China city,
what if my daughter cannot find job? I wanted her go USA study, but
Singapore offer free scholarship, plus easier for me to travel and
visit her. I think after she graduate I will tell her go USA to
work."
I almost tore up the immigration sheet.
I wish our government will grow a heart, two ears and two
eyes.
What I said are all true stories, and I am not xenophobic, I
welcome competition and foreigners, I just don't want to be given a
wooden stick to fight when others are given swords and shields and
I still kena called incompetent for not winning!
