Why Bond Applicable to Only to Sporns? FTrash Get It Free!

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- 4 or less paragraphs so show all paragraphs first before showing the media and bkstry and stuffs --><!-- story content : start -->'No one is forcing them to take up the offer.' <!-- story content : start -->MR PAUL CHAN: 'My perspective is different from Ms Denise Khng's in her letter on Tuesday, 'Youth are committed to bonds, but job satisfaction crucial too'. A scholarship is like a mutual benefit contract in which the recipient obtains full financial support and and promises to work for the provider in return. It is on a willing buyer and willing seller basis. Some regard scholarships as a prestigious award, while others resort to it out of financial difficulty. The decision to embrace a scholarship offer is like investing in one's future career with borrowed capital from a bank. One must pay it back through a bond of service for an agreed duration. If one does not feel comfortable with such a time-honoured practice, don't take it. Why should scholarship providers change the paradigm to suit the wishes of today's youth? No one is forcing them to take up the offer.'

 

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to the current debate on scholarship bonds.
If a scholarship holder is unhappy with his working environment, and he can afford to pay back the bond, he should be allowed to break the bond. After all, it is pointless for the organisation to retain someone who has lost interest.
The organisation can then make use of the money to offer another person a scholarship.
This is a win-win situation for both the scholarship holder and the organisation. Woo Jia Qian (Miss)