Scholarships should be based on merit, not nationality: Baey

[friendship]

I know in some primary school or sec school. There is a team in the school whose job is to travel outside Singapore giving scholarship forms and inviting those students for interviews.


Enrichment fee such as Learning Lab or Hua Language Centre, lodging, school fees and daily allowance capped at a certain amt are fully paid by the school.

School has this money because MOE allocated the funds. Where is MOE income come from? Tax payers.

[mgnvr]

These are scholars. They shouldn’t be taking enrichment fees.

[Fat Mama]

DS Sec 3 in IP school. There are 8 PRC scholars in his class of 30. They are either 1 or 2 yrs older than SG kids.


No doubt they are very good in Maths and Science but weak in English. They attend different Eng lesson as SG kids and the School provide 2 hrs daily of English tuition after school for them. They stayed in sch dorm, food and pocket money provided and teachers assigned to be their guardian to take care of them.

If our SG kids are weak in Chinese, Physics, Chem, Maths etc... does the Schools provide 2 hrs daily tuition to help our kids???? No, we have to pay for tuition ourselves. :mad: :mad:

Some of his PRC classmates are good but some are loners and have attitude problems. DS has problem getting his group mate to do project work. :frustrated: :frustrated: How to cooperate and be friendly to them?

[Mawar]

Wonder if those in charge would think differently if the money is theirs? Would they pay for their kids’ education or dole out money freely to bright kids outside their house?


Sometimes I feel that the current leaders have forgotten about the sacrifices of the people who helped build up the kitty, but focus on earning their own brownie points in the name of some obscure abstract national policy. I also suspect that these leaders are overfed and their own kids are well provided for.

I dont get it. Why are the foreign scholarships doled out without bonds? Are we doing our part as good citizens of the world? We have arrived? Think most of us missed the good boat then.

[friendship]

Fat Mama:

DS Sec 3 in IP school. There are 8 PRC scholars in his class of 30. They are either 1 or 2 yrs older than SG kids.


No doubt they are very good in Maths and Science but weak in English. They attend different Eng lesson as SG kids and the School provide 2 hrs daily of English tuition after school for them. They stayed in sch dorm, food and pocket money provided and teachers assigned to be their guardian to take care of them.

If our SG kids are weak in Chinese, Physics, Chem, Maths etc... does the Schools provide 2 hrs daily tuition to help our kids???? No, we have to pay for tuition ourselves. :mad: :mad:

Some of his PRC classmates are good but some are loners and have attitude problems. DS has problem getting his group mate to do project work. :frustrated: :frustrated: How to cooperate and be friendly to them?

So this is true. Different schools have different way of doing enrichment.
One reputable girls' school secondary, their China scholars are in Learning Lab. They are about 5 of them in the same class as my friend's dd. The girl asked those china girls where they are staying, they told her they stay in dorm and they are scholars, everything school paid.

[Fat Mama]

This year DS school cut down number of PRC scholars from 50+ to 30+.

[Chenonceau]

friendship:

Fat Mama:

DS Sec 3 in IP school. There are 8 PRC scholars in his class of 30. They are either 1 or 2 yrs older than SG kids.


No doubt they are very good in Maths and Science but weak in English. They attend different Eng lesson as SG kids and the School provide 2 hrs daily of English tuition after school for them. They stayed in sch dorm, food and pocket money provided and teachers assigned to be their guardian to take care of them.

If our SG kids are weak in Chinese, Physics, Chem, Maths etc... does the Schools provide 2 hrs daily tuition to help our kids???? No, we have to pay for tuition ourselves. :mad: :mad:

Some of his PRC classmates are good but some are loners and have attitude problems. DS has problem getting his group mate to do project work. :frustrated: :frustrated: How to cooperate and be friendly to them?

So this is true. Different schools have different way of doing enrichment.
One reputable girls' school secondary, their China scholars are in Learning Lab. They are about 5 of them in the same class as my friend's dd. The girl asked those china girls where they are staying, they told her they stay in dorm and they are scholars, everything school paid.

:rotflmao: This is too funny. MOE itself recognises the superiority of TLL in the provision of a quality education. Why not sign an MOU with TLL? Educators have to pay tuition centres to teach their scholars? So why is MOE blaming parents for the tuition culture by saying that parents send children to unnecessary tuition?

[friendship]

how many are from neighbouring countries?

[friendship]

not with MOE but with individual school that sponsored the scholars.

[Sun_2010]

Just my 2 cents of a differing prespective

Has anyone wondered why this being done ?

Afterall there had to be some benefits before a policy is implemented. It is definetly not a purely altrustic policy.

One important benefit I see that would be hard to simulate otherwise.
It is a fact that most of these scholars raise the standard of the levels. The competitive environment drives the local students. i have heard the opinion from students in 2 different IP schools that once in Year 3 , the local kids get a face the heat of the competition from these scholars. This really drives them to work harder. It also prepares them to handle a real world than being cocooned.

So personally,
Do i have to pay full school fees ? Yes.
Do i begrudge the scholars their scholarship? - No
Should there be a better criteria/checks for taking in scholars? - Yes