i m not surprised ...
bcos if u go to the 5th floor study lounge at NLB building, the students studying there are all locals ... they are mostly students from MDIS-monash, las vegas university of hospitality, and other distance-learning foreign institutions ... i asked them why they have to study at the NLB lounge ? their school is not a real campus, only a small building, or in some cases, a few classrooms, so they have no place to go to study for tests or do assignments ...
sometimes ST publishes the names of gradruands of foreign unis who are convocating - you will see a lot of local names ...
this goes to show many, many local kids have not been accepted by the local unis ... so im not surprised its foreigners who get places in the local unis ... local kids all end up in the polys, and then take the private route to university ...