Serious Sick Man of Asia New Sympton - International Education Hub Collapsing!

[Pinkieslut]

Singapore saw the closure of 25 private schools in 2016, with fewer foreign students coming to study in the island. According to the Committee for Private Education (CPE), a total of 42 schools were de-registered in 2015 and 2016. Some schools that were shuttered, like Nanyang Education Institute and M2 Academy, were newly-set up less than 3 years ago and had spent big advertising dollars.

There are currently only 293 registered private schools and the regulator expect more to close down due to the dwindling numbers of foreign students.

In 2012, there were 100,000 locals and 35,000 foreign students in Singapore. The student intake fell to 77,000 locals and 29,000 foreigners in 2015.

Director-general of government agency SkillsFuture Singapore, Brandon Lee, commented on the declining education industry calling it “inevitable”:

“The restructuring is inevitable and will continue as the Government shapes the sector to better serve the needs of students and the economy. Existing players need to be committed to continuous improvement to make their programmes more industry relevant and robust.”

The number of Singaporean students taking private degrees are higher than the number in the government universities as the government does not encourage Singaporeans to pick u tertiary degrees. Earlier in 2013, Minister Khaw Boon Wan told Singaporeans to not go on a “paper-chase” saying:

“If they cannot find jobs, what is the point? You own a degree, but so what? That you can’t eat it. If that cannot give you a good life, a good job, it is meaningless.”

 

[scroobal]

Thankfully there will be less parents who will be cheated by these schools some of whom have Case Trust logos and ride on the names of established education Institute. Take the case of Nanyang Education Institute. How was the name approved by the authorities in the first place. Their English on their website is shocking. Ex Pap MPs have gone into the industry when the govt announced that it was a growth sector some 15 years ago.

 

[Einfield]

[QUOTE

“If they cannot find jobs, what is the point? You own a degree, but so what? That you can’t eat it. If that cannot give you a good life, a good job, it is meaningless.”[/QUOTE]

If you think a Degree = good job = good life
Let me quote what trump would say : Sad!

 

[Bigfuck]

Singapore is a washing hub. You need to create more enticing factors other than the jaded past few factors which no longer have that much appeal.

 

[johnny333]

With so many schools closing maybe that is why the PAP is rehashing their upgrade message. To prop up these schools & to convince the unemployed to go to these schools to delay their entry into the poor job market. Spore or rather the PAP policy has made Spore too expensive to compete.

 

[SgGoneWrong]

Why do foreigners need to waste money to study in high cost sinkieland when their degrees in ah neh land, pinoy land, etc (cheap and sometimes fake) is as recognized to land a good paying job in sinkieland?

Sinkie parents are wasting lots of money to provide tuition for the sinkie babies.

 

[JohnTan]

These so-called private schools are for retards and losers. Any student worth his or her salt should be studying in NUS, NTU or some other mainstream local university. Sinkie students are better off not getting cheated by wasting their time and money at these local degree mills.