I’m deeply troubled by the hint of xenophobia inside. The supportive comments below that post and number of likes makes me wonder if Singapore is actually a welcoming place to foreigners.
A short introduction about me. I’m a year 3 EE student. I’m from another Asian nation, took the tuition grant too and have to work in Singapore after graduation.
I’m deeply grateful to the Singapore government for offering me this opportunity. My home country does not have good universities and it has been my dream to study abroad in a good university especially one as good as NUS. I remembered being extremely overjoyed when I was accepted to NUS with this grant as my family would not have afforded to pay the full fees otherwise.
I still have some time before graduation but I can understand the stress that other students are facing.
Singaporeans have it relatively easy to enter NUS. For outsiders like me, we have to top our high schools, brush up our English to get good scores for IELTS or TOEFL to even have a remote chance of getting in. After we get offered, it’s a big change for us to move to a foreign land, study a degree that is not our first language with no family support.
With this additional stress for us to find a job after we graduate if not we have to fork out huge damages, in a job market that is stacked against us, I can understand OP is frustrated and fearful. We should be more emphatatic.
The minimum we ask for is a fair chance to consider us. We are people seeking a better life just like you. If SGP government didn’t think we can add value to the Singapore economy, we would not have been offered the TFG.
Here are what netizens think:
- You’re a joke. You go to a foreign country and ask for a fair chance with their citizens? Did you give your peers a fair chance when you came here without them? Did you consider the spot you took from a local before you sprout fair chance?
- You should cast yr net wider. Even the field you have the least interest in. Malaysians are working professionals here. My neighbours from mynmar China and India are professionals too and skilled workers. Its up to the Companies and business establishment to pick you as their employee. Since you’re going to be a graduate soon with no working experience lower yr expectation. You’re competing not only with local graduates but with othe applicants in the region. Currebtly I read the local graduates take more than 6 months to find a job . You might be longer. Do you need to feel sorry for yrself? Of course not. Young people don’t give up too soon . They fight tooth and nail
- Go back la