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More than 90% of doctors in Singapore are locals. MOHH is only hiring a small percentage of overseas medical professionals to ease the burden of overworked local doctors. With more Singaporeans studying medicine, there will be an even…

Obviously, this announcement did not go down well with the existing students of the YNC, who decided to release a petition to reject the merger of the YNC and University Scholar's Programme (USP), along with a long list of demands from the…

Yesterday, mainstream media reported on the announcement that the Yale-NUS College (YNC) would be closed by 2025, and that it would be replaced by a larger college (still yet to be named), by merging the existing Yale-NUS College with the…

Blessing in disguise?

53-year-old housewife Mdm Zheng had to pay more than twice the usual price for a economy flight ticket in order to get her daughter home safely from the UK. Her daughter who had been studying at the University of Nottingham since September…

A reader who wanted to remain anonymous wrote in to us with a rant that her student account had recently been compromised. While she did not reveal which university she was from, she mentioned that she had received an email one day which…

Singapore is known for having some very strict laws. For example, punishments for sex crimes against women could result in lengthy jail sentences as well as caning. It is no wonder Singaporeans were shocked to find out that NUS…

Many of us would remember our parents nagging at us to study harder to get better grades, as they believe that good academic qualifications is a sure way to a better life, and for some a way out of poverty. In Singapore, places for the…

Since historian Dr Thum Ping Tjin got embroiled in the controversy of meeting up Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Tun Mahathir and urging him to take the leadership of spreading democracy in South-East Asia (perceived by the Singaporean public…