NUS students receptive to proposed fee hike

What is the relevance here? Who are paying for the students' education? The students or their parents? If it is the latter, is it not more important to hear from them? Are they as receptive of the fee hike? LOL.

Please reveal how many places reserved for the foreign students, how many are given scholarships, how much allowances they get each month ? It is not fair or right to use tax payers money to help foreign students at the expense of local born true Singaporeans ? Remember PM said, Singaporeans will be first ! please put money where the mouth is !
Singaporeans first, Singaporeans first !!!

An increase of $280 per year is reasonable.

But the real problem is the enrollment where foreign students had high priority irregardless of grades. Many of these foreign students on scholarship don't have to pay a single cent and were given monthly allowances.

When these foreign scholars graduate, many were given cushy jobs and high salaries to 'serve their bonds'!

quite a misleading headline...how many students did the reporters interview? did they interview the parents? those who were interviewed, r they on scholarships, from relatively wealthy families..i know of several families who are struggling to put their kids through nus and ntu...this increase in tuition fees will surely add to their daily battles with the rising costs of living...our children who are born and raised here should be given priorities when it comes to places and costs, not the foreigners..how many of these foreigners will stay here for long? a housewife in my group, her poly grad son was not given a place at nus even though he scored a gpa 3.8..the family is going to send him away to australia and they tell him never to come back, another family is selling their four room flat to fund another singaporean son to usa, and never to come back, they are fed up of unfair treatment of our sons (ns, reservist, pointless remedial training, yearly ippt, while the permanent residents don't have to do these duties)...we are losing our young talents, and being replaced by foreigners who will not be here forever...i know of a few ang moh permanent residents who r only here to milk the civil servants pay, cpf, bonuses, and they intend to go back to their birth countries in 10-15 years times to retire, and they boast openly about it, we can hear them chat and talk away in the foodcourt in our estate.....why's the loyalty? all at the expenses of our taxpayers' money! real messed up, this country of ours has become! our own people are not being given jobs, yet the 30 and 40somethings ang mohs from europe and elsewhere are given management jobs in teaching institutues and so on...it's not only the prcs and indians who are replacing us locals...there are so many ang mohs amongst us these days it is really worrying! the condos opposite my estate, we have never seen so many ang mohs before!

Yeah! The fees hike is inevitable, so says the naive, insensible souls.
How dumb & ignorant can these young people be.
Our universities must be damn happy.
Now they'll have no worry to raise the fees annually.
How many actually know that our gahmen have been giving scholarships liberally to foreign students to study here for free while locals are made to pay and pay and pay higher fees?

The lack of transparency of this government is reaching unbelievable levels: why have there not been any response to the people's demand to know clearly how much foreign students they have invited to study in Sg universities at government (ie singapore taxpayers) expense and told us how much have they spent each year since 2000 on funding foreign students on scholarships to study in Singapore? How can parents here quietly accept and continue to vote for the PAP when their own children not only have to accept lower priority in entering universities but have to pay far higher fees than these PAP-sponsored foreign students? How does the PAP, who insist on bonds on Singapore students sent overseas on government scholarships, justify not bonding these foreign scholars? How many of them break bonds? Why is Philip Yeo not opening his big gap to sue those foreign scholarship holders who take up SG government scholarship and who break bonds?

Another increase in basic necessity...
What is the purpose of this useless govt when the SOP is to raise tuition fees, maid levies, COE, SLA prices, home prices, PUB, rental+++++++++

Who dunno how to raise prices (pass the bucket) ??? Who ???

So will the fee increased also depend on the number of foreigner getting scholarship?

Those that pay the fee will be subsidising those foreigner?

Foreigner that study here should be charged higher UNI fee.

the newspaper should interview the parents as they are the one paying. the students are so insentitive to their parents. so bragging! MOE should ask NUS and others to reduced cost and hope others will not follow the increment of fees. MOE or the government should keep tracks on all development and not leave to market forces as like porridge, it will simmer and should keep an eye or IT WILL OVERBOIL and causes unhappiness. the so called competitive singapore department should keep watch on this.

What rubbish is the NUS Provost saying? Isn't the current standard with regards to the staff decent enough? If they stop giving away scholarship to foreign student en masse, there would enough for all. MOE should not agree to a hike in the tuition fee.

@ In January last year, all three of the country’s public universities – Singapore Management University, Nanyang Technological University and NUS – announced increases in tuition fees between three and six percent

Under the current PAP (MOE in this case ), everytime they want to increase they gave all sort of excues to justify. However they never tell you the cost and quality of the university

Example the Accounting degree in Singapore against Korea, USA, UK ACCA etc

Also when cost or service decrease example Coffee, Oil, SBS bus, Taxi etc .... they kept quiet and no adjustment on the fares hiked

@ “I think it’s (fee increase) not so bad, since NUS fees are comparatively lower than other foreign universities for a similar quality of education¬. ....

Here you can see an example of of singapore product under the PAP education system. They make an expensive items look cheap through producing ignorant student and PAP controlled media giving out misleading biased news

Example compare singapore taxi with London, NY, HK instead of Taipei, Bangkok, KL , Beijin to justify teh fares hike n later rental

MOE, pls be transparent on how many free scholarships awarded to foreign and locals students yearly?is this needed a 'blackbox' operation too, this ain't national defence issue...

How come there are so many increase nowaday? School fee increase, COE increase, housing increase, LKY warned of population increase, and now LHL warned of taxes increase. What is going on? All increase except my pay!

Another profit organisation. This time a university

if you vote them do not complain.accept it.

hey come on guys they need to hike fees to get angmo proffessors so they need the money to party on weekends

There it goes again....the never ending increases are here again..and the next organisation to increase will be ??? dun tell you, hahahaha...

Does it means Singaporean students have to pay more and they continue to give scholarships to foreigners. Not fair!!

No, not again. Is it not possible for the government to inject more funds into the universities? They spend so much on foreigners but not on Singaporeans? On top of it, less places for Singaporeans. A ridiculous joke? We seem to be working and living in the world's largest corporation which decides unilaterally what's best for it's employees.

cheap labor aka prc prof are everywhr...why increase fees?