Sorry if this is an odd question. Are individuals who are in Singapore on student passes sometimes offered/asked to apply for PR? I have not heard of this before.sundaymorningstaple wrote:Personally, I'd say if you are a gambling man and can stand rejection, go ahead and apply in Sept. I'd give you a 60:40 chance of being rejected. But primarily as you income, for having a masters degree, is rather low after 3.5 years of working. If you were on a P1 pass, I'd probably go with a 60% chance of success, but having signed a bond for three years will not get you any favours. We've seen those who were given a letter to apply for PR while still in school who turned it down at the time and now want it and are being rejected. The fact that you went to school here, currently anyway, doesn't seem to hold a whole lot of weight, or any more weight than having a degree from a decent western university would.
previously, those who come on Govt/MOE/SIA scholarship, having been identified as top of the cream talent, were asked to apply PR upon completion o their course .. again, from what I know, not all were asked but a fair majority were asked - the intention possibly being to a) help the person fulfil the 3 years post-graduation work in Singapore, and b) to scout as talent for future SC ??StephNET wrote: Sorry if this is an odd question. Are individuals who are in Singapore on student passes sometimes offered/asked to apply for PR? I have not heard of this before.
Thanks.
Tuition grant is not MOE scholarship, every Tom D*ck and Harry will get it when they study at the local uni, poly or even Lasallsia. Full MOM Scholarship holders are very few, maybe less than 100 in all school each year, these are really cream of the crop from neighbouring countries. For example Cambodia usually has only 1 or 2 students selected, 30 students from Malaysia, 7 students from Indonesia... a year and they are selected from thousands of candidates. In the past these scholars are usually given PR but now even these top scholars are not considered. Post GE, things changed dramatically. People who come to NUS NTU for Masters hoping to get PR after that will see that they are not even qualify for S Pass anymore since with a Master they need higher salary to qualify for E Pass, so doing a Master per se will lower the chance of being employed in Singapore as you are not considered suitable for S Pass jobs and lowly paid jobs, I think it is fair since local will not be displaced by cheaper foreigners nowStephNET wrote:Ah, ok. Thank you for the clarification.
I am considering applying to NTU to pursue a Masters degree, and would be applying for the MOE grant as well.
PR would certainly make the job search easier upon graduation.
Oh well. If it was easy, it probably would not be worth doing.
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