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Apr 22, 2010
Offer better answers to admissions squeeze
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<!-- end left side bar --><!-- story content : start -->FOR anybody who has chosen the polytechnic route, there is an awareness that getting a place in a local university is going to be difficult. This is the case too with junior college students who go through the rigorous A-level exams.
Top poly students may be able to gain a place in the universities here, but there are also those who harbour the same desire but fall short marginally.
Owing to various constraints, this could spell the end of the pursuance of education for some, while others may pursue their education overseas. These students might eventually choose to settle overseas, thus deepening Singapore's brain drain and affecting the future workforce.
Singapore might have lost a few bright sparks because of inadequate measures to nurture and engage this group of bright students to contribute back to their birth country.
There is definitely no easy way of trying to make space for everyone within the local universities, but the Government has already taken positive steps to plug this problem with plans for a fourth university.
Still, the relevant authorities have to be more creative and liberal with their exploration of options to ensure that Singapore recognises and retains its bright minds.
Yolanda Tan (Miss)
Offer better answers to admissions squeeze
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<!-- end left side bar --><!-- story content : start -->FOR anybody who has chosen the polytechnic route, there is an awareness that getting a place in a local university is going to be difficult. This is the case too with junior college students who go through the rigorous A-level exams.
Top poly students may be able to gain a place in the universities here, but there are also those who harbour the same desire but fall short marginally.
Owing to various constraints, this could spell the end of the pursuance of education for some, while others may pursue their education overseas. These students might eventually choose to settle overseas, thus deepening Singapore's brain drain and affecting the future workforce.
Singapore might have lost a few bright sparks because of inadequate measures to nurture and engage this group of bright students to contribute back to their birth country.
There is definitely no easy way of trying to make space for everyone within the local universities, but the Government has already taken positive steps to plug this problem with plans for a fourth university.
Still, the relevant authorities have to be more creative and liberal with their exploration of options to ensure that Singapore recognises and retains its bright minds.
Yolanda Tan (Miss)
