FT preferred. Only in Singapore!
Quote: Make sure that our young people are hungry. If our young people are not hungry enough, bring in hungrier ones from overseas. Make them feel hungry, increase the hungriness index.
- Philip Yeo (Straits Times)
I wonder if Philip Yeo is the man who sparked off the award of scholarships to kids from less developed economies like China/India. No so long ago, there were a couple of Singaporean scholars who broke their bonds and end up not coming back to Singapore to serve their bonds.
However, it seems that awarding scholarships to ‘hungry’ people (so defined by Philip Yeo) didn’t do any good either. These so-called ‘hungry’ people have ended up becoming ‘hungry’ ghosts when they fled this country after completing their studies. See below article from Asiaone. The locals are deprived of the scholarship and worse, a local is deprived of a chance to study because preference is given to foreigners.
In the same vein, did Mr Yeo also influenced the government into the mass import of labor into this tiny island to increase the hungriness index. This topdown gigantic social experiment doesn’t seem to have any positive effect other than depressing the salaries of the workers and coupled with the lousy economy, increase jobless rates!
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source: http://www.asiaone.com/News/Education/Story/A1Story20081119-101732.html
‘You can leave S’pore secretly after graduating’
DON’T want to serve your six-year bond after graduating? Then don’t.
That was the advice in a post written by a netizen on China’s popular Baidu.com forum.
The original forum thread was posted by a netizen who claimed to be a student who had just been offered an undergraduate scholarship in Singapore.
He had posted the thread hoping to get some advice on how to manage his monthly allowance, which was part of his scholarship award.
Instead, he got advice on how to buck the system.
A netizen wrote in response: ‘After you graduate, you’re supposed to work in Singapore for six years, meaning you can’t work in another country.
‘But actually you can leave on the sly. That’s what a friend of mine did. He didn’t like Singapore, so he left after graduating.
‘And it’s not like anybody will come catch you either.’
On a different thread, also on Baidu.com, another netizen related an incident where a friend had done the same thing.
‘He quietly came back to China, because he knew he wouldn’t be caught. But I reckon he’s probably been blacklisted, so he probably won’t be able to go to Singapore ever again,’ the netizen wrote.
But another netizen cautioned: ‘If you decide to leave and inform the authorities, they will make you pay them back. My classmate did.’
