School fee hike may prompt more foreigners to take up citize
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School fee hike may prompt more foreigners to take up citizenship
By Maggie Chong & Dylan Loh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 21 December 2009 2113 hrsPhotos 1 of 1 
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School fee hike may prompt more foreigners to take up citizenship SINGAPORE: Parents in Singapore have mixed views about the Education Ministry's move to raise school fees for permanent residents and foreigners.
Some schools told MediaCorp on Monday that the changes may encourage more foreigners to apply for citizenship before their children start schooling.
From 2011, permanent residents and foreigners will pay higher school fees. While Singaporean parents support the move, they said the fee hike should also take into consideration the income level of non-Singaporeans.
"Of course, it's good news for Singaporeans, but they should put a cap to the fee increment. Times are bad and everyone is under a lot of pressure," one parent said.
Non-citizens have mixed views about the changes. "I think it is right to increase the fees because the school's expenditure and teachers' salaries are high," one of them told MediaCorp.
Another said: "I think the increase is too much – it's more than 100 per cent. I feel it's unfair."
Local schools said non-Singaporean parents generally understand the need for the fee revision.
Lee Hui Feng, principal of Nanyang Primary School, said: "They do see the rationale behind the hikes in school fees and I think as compared to the school fees of the international school, we are still lower, way lower.
"I think they do see the value of our education system and they hold high regards for our education system. To the parents, it's really good investment for the children."
But with school fees almost tripling by 2012, some foreigners said they will have to consider if they should stay or go. -
TRYING TO STAY FLOAT - THAT'S IT
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hahaa, PAP again caught between a rock and a hard place.
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their annual salary 7 figures per head
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fark off these foreigners, stay or go, go better lah, go back to the rothole u all came from
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to hell with those foreign aliens that make our "std of living f****** high"
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want to get sg education but dont want to serve NS.
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after graduate from local poly work 3 yrs = pr
those after ns, no work how - your business loh
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still got ict ippt rt which many employer don't like
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this faking ICt and RPT is a total waste of time
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Originally posted by ☃®:
want to get sg education but dont want to serve NS.
and still don't want pay more.. cheapo ass foreigners.
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Originally posted by ☃®:
this faking ICt and RPT is a total waste of time
wait till u know after u done all ur ICTsthey only pay u 300 for the
total 12 years of contribution u had done
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Originally posted by Agenda:
and still don't want pay more.. cheapo ass foreigners.
Its how the world behaves. PAP dont realise that. They a bunch of gullible people. Other countries are secretly laughing behind their backs when the foreigners in Singapore apply for PR in western countries to migrate forever.
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Originally posted by noahnoah:
wait till u know after u done all ur ICTsthey only pay u 300 for the
total 12 years of contribution u had done
already know this long ago.
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tat time i was in mrt train le
there got two PRC chinese students
was talking among themselves
overheard them saying
we just here for study lar
got degree , then work here
got money liao go back to china
Why want to stay here?
Thats the outcome of importing aliens here
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they will always surely go back where they can live like king and queen...
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just tune it every monday 8.00 pm channel 8 - hosted by mr lee and ms quan
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it's the monies and exchange rate that they are here
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Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
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Singapore adds wealth to other countries while itself degenerating. Ironic
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Originally posted by John Penn:
to hell with those foreign aliens that make our "std of living f****** high"
"std of living f****** high" is a problem!?!?!? Why wldn't you want a high standard of living? Normally its the cost of living that people are worried about.
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why is it good news to singaporeans?
i really fail to understand the rationale.
if the ministry reduce the school fees of singaporeans i can understand.
the increase is good news only to the ministry isn't it?
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Originally posted by dragg:
why is it good news to singaporeans?
i really fail to understand the rationale.
if the ministry reduce the school fees of singaporeans i can understand.
the increase is good news only to the ministry isn't it?
as the school fees for the first 10 years of basic education is already so low as it is already heavily subsidized by govt or actually by tax payers, i dont see how the present fees can be much significantly lower to average singaporeans.
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Not only must increase school fees of foreigners. we must also make them serve ns and pay more income tax
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Originally posted by keeptouch:
Not only must increase school fees of foreigners. we must also make them serve ns and pay more income tax
Ya, make the foreigner gals serve NS, then we sg boys got more gals in NS, life has never been better than this. (If it came true)