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(1 May) - Educations plays a pivotal role in nation building and, like Malaysia, the Singapore government subsidises a large proportion of university education through grants and supplements with a full range of financial assistance schemes, including loans and bursaries. Not all who enter university here will get scholarships... 

“Singapore will continue to take in 20 - 25 thousand new citizens each year.” This is on top of the foreign ‘talent’ and foreign workers coming to our shores. Apparently, the lost of a GRC to the opposition a year ago, didn’t translate into any valuable lesson for the PAP. PM says sorry over mistakes, pledges to do... 

Of the 340 pioneer batch of students at the Singapore's new university, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), one-quarter (or about 85) are foreigners. They came from mostly ASEAN countries. SUTD now joins NUS, NTU and SMU to become Singapore's 4th public university. The SUTD students will begin school next Tue...