I WAS dismayed to read the letters by Mr Choo Thim Heng, 'Questions over Saudis bound for S'pore varsities' (ST, April 6) and 'Why is S'pore giving scholarships to students from a wealthy country?' (ST Online Forum, April 20).
It shocks me that in this day and age of opening borders and greater need for cultural diversity, people still see the world in zero-sum terms.
Mr Choo seems to think that introducing more students from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations to Singapore somehow limits opportunities for Singaporeans.
This is false and such thinking should not be allowed to limit Singaporean opportunities for increased interaction with the outside world.
Like it or not, education is a business and governments throughout the world recognise education as an export product. Two countries that have done well by promoting education are Australia and Britain.
Every year, their governments spend millions trying to recruit foreign students to their universities because foreign students not only foster greater people-to-people ties between countries (which in turn leads to greater business ties), but also inject an important commodity to their educational establishments - cash (which local students do not).
The Singapore Government understands this and is keen to promote our institutions of higher learning to the world. Private educational organisations like Stansfield and Auston have become centres of entrepreneurial activity.
On April 1, the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University were corporatised, giving them more freedom to set their admissions criteria.
These organisations are keenly aware of what will attract students from Singapore and abroad - stringent academic criteria that are essential to maintain a reputation for academic excellence. In short, who gets into our universities is decided by who deserves to get in rather than who the Government tells them to let in.
Quotas are a thing of the past. Singapore students will have to compete to get into universities here just as they compete to get a scholarship at Harvard, Cambridge and other top institutions.
Students from Saudi Arabia and elsewhere will have to meet academic requirements regardless of how many visas their governments negotiate with ours. This will only benefit NUS, NTU and other providers of higher education.
And not every student from Saudi Arabia will be on a scholarship. Most will pay fees, which will boost the cash reserves of our educational institutions.
Tang Li
Published in The Straits Times: 24 April 2006
Copyright: (C) Singapore Press Holdings Ltd: 2006
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