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Among the Class of 2010 from NUS, SMU and NTU, graduates from the NUS Law Faculty got the highest starting pay. This is according to the 2010 Graduate Employment Survey results. Featuring for the first time in the Salary.sg ranking tables, the 2010 batch of lawyers from NUS received an average starting salary of $4,770. [...]
According to the just released Report on Labour Force in Singapore 2010, 32.2% of degree holders in the resident labour force are graduates in Business and Administration. This is up from 31.9% last year. In contrast, the other common fields of study all saw a decrease – Engineering Sciences from 23.9% last year down to 23.2% [...]
Private tutor Phang Yu Hon who gives Physics tuition earned a whopping $520,000 last year. He paid over $85k in taxes. In a video interview with ST, he said he will be earning even more this year: “My income has been going up exponentially. So, I think this year it’s going to be even higher. [...]
Read the full article at Private Tuition Teacher Makes $520kOverheard 2 comments on radio. The first is about some Singaporeans unable to speak either English or Chinese well. Despite years of studying both languages as “first languages”, many so-called “effectively bilingual” Singaporeans still struggle when communicating with native speakers of either language. Mainlanders and Taiwanese laugh at our limited Chinese vocabulary, while the English-speaking [...]
Read the full article at Chinese Language Not ImportantThe latest graduate employment survey reports are out. The 2009 batch of graduates from NUS, NTU and SMU were asked about their starting pay and whether they were employed on a permanent basis. The highest starting salaries come from the 4-year Information Systems Management programme at Singapore Management University. Those who graduated from this course [...]
Read the full article at Graduate Employment Survey 2009 (published 2010)Don’t let mainstream media headlines like “Most top PSLE students stay in HDB flats” (link) mislead you into thinking that HDB kids are top students. All it takes is a sharp eye and a thinking mind to see the facts. Straits Times reader Mr Visakan Veerasamy wrote to the papers today: “The statistics given in [...]
Read the full article at HDB Kids Don’t Perform as well in PSLEThe following is the Salary.sg list of top primary schools for this year. Ranking is done based on the vacancies available after the all-important Phase 2B. Refer to last year’s ranking for details. The 6 schools in boldface offer the Gifted Education Programme (GEP). The other 3 GEP schools not in this top-20 list are: [...]
Read the full article at Top Primary Schools 2009Congratulations to the latest batch of President’s Scholars. But like last year’s batch, not a single one of them will be doing a science or engineering related course. In a way, this confirms the doom of science and technology careers in Singapore. In fact, four of the six President’s Scholars this year will read Economics. [...]
Read the full article at Again, President’s Scholars Not Doing Engineering or ScienceIt’s been a while since the term life sciences last appeared in the mainstream media. Most recently, it appeared somewhat in the form of “green chemistry” in this CNA report talking about GlaxoSmithKline opening a facility in Singapore and sponsoring some scholarships. The scholarships are for studies in green chemistry and public health policy. Green [...]
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