Raffles Institution (Year 1-4)
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Just want to know how aggressive RI is in this space.
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friendship:
A friend is currently working in RJ. He said there is a team specialise to fly around the Asia to recruit for foreign scholars.
Most of the top schools have such ''teams'', not only RI... In fact, I have a friend, who is a senior teacher in an average school, and she is part of such ''team'' in her school too.. -
firefly38:
almost all IP schools have such outreach to recruit foreign students .... guess is part of grabbing talents before they go elsewhere....gov't is really targeting 'it' at every levelfriendship:
A friend is currently working in RJ. He said there is a team specialise to fly around the Asia to recruit for foreign scholars.
Most of the top schools have such ''teams'', not only RI... In fact, I have a friend, who is a senior teacher in an average school, and she is part of such ''team'' in her school too..
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firefly38:
Yes, most of the top schools have overseas recruitment trips. Not just IP but mainstream schools too. You'll see an influx of scholars from China and Vietnam coming in at upper sec.friendship:
A friend is currently working in RJ. He said there is a team specialise to fly around the Asia to recruit for foreign scholars.
Most of the top schools have such ''teams'', not only RI... In fact, I have a friend, who is a senior teacher in an average school, and she is part of such ''team'' in her school too.. -
not sure what you define as by influx, but from my knowledge, there are around 20 scholars per level (from year 3 to year 4), with each level (year 3-4) around 500? there are also returning singaporeans, DSA transfer etc.
you will however see more scholars in year 5-6, esp since you can’t stop them from joining RI via JAE (i think). -
francbat:
Influx as in to all the various schools, not just RI. You'll see them at HCI, NUSH, ACSI, SCGS, NYGH etc.not sure what you define as by influx, but from my knowledge, there are around 20 scholars per level (from year 3 to year 4), with each level (year 3-4) around 500? there are also returning singaporeans, DSA transfer etc.
you will however see more scholars in year 5-6, esp since you can't stop them from joining RI via JAE (i think). -
In the end where are the top cream that being skimmed off in primary 4 har? How abt those being awarded with EESIS or something like that? They can’t even compete with the foreign talent at the age of 15 years old onwards. Failure in our education system. Tuition centres laughing their ways to the bank.
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friendship:
In the end where are the top cream that being skimmed off in primary 4 har? How abt those being awarded with EESIS or something like that? They can't even compete with the foreign talent at the age of 15 years old onwards. Failure in our education system. Tuition centres laughing their ways to the bank.
how do you know they can't compete? don't make sweeping statements without evidence to back them up. if you look at the various local olympiads (mathematics, science) you will find singaporeans leading the pack.
look at http://sms.math.nus.edu.sg/Competitions/SMO2011.aspx for example. the top 6 positions in open go to singaporeans. look at senior. the top 6, except for possibly no 3, are singaporeans.
and again, PSLE unfortunately doesn't paint the entire picture. you can hot-house your kid to get a high PSLE score, if he/she slacks off after getting into a top school, of course they can't compete with the foreign talent... they can't even compete against their own peers. -
We shall be united as Singaporean to prove them wrong
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francbat:
just curious, how do u figure that out? from the names (local / foreign sounding) or you know the students?
look at http://sms.math.nus.edu.sg/Competitions/SMO2011.aspx for example. the top 6 positions in open go to singaporeans. look at senior. the top 6, except for possibly no 3, are singaporeans.
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