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		<title>Chinese Language Not Important</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 08:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overheard 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 &#8220;first languages&#8221;, many so-called &#8220;effectively bilingual&#8221; Singaporeans still struggle when communicating with native speakers of either language.
Mainlanders and Taiwanese laugh at our limited Chinese vocabulary, while the English-speaking foreigners mock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graduate Employment Survey 2009 (published 2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 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 with at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HDB Kids Don&#8217;t Perform as well in PSLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t let mainstream media headlines like &#8220;Most top PSLE students stay in HDB flats&#8221; (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:
&#8220;The statistics given in the (newspaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Primary Schools 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 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&#8217;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: Tao Nan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Again, President&#8217;s Scholars Not Doing Engineering or Science</title>
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		<comments>http://www.salary.sg/2009/again-presidents-scholars-not-doing-engineering-or-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the latest batch of President&#8217;s Scholars. But like last year&#8217;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&#8217;s Scholars this year will read Economics.
Although Economics is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened to Life Sciences?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since the term life sciences last appeared in the mainstream media. Most recently, it appeared somewhat in the form of &#8220;green chemistry&#8221; 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 chemistry? Shouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Launch of Salary.sg Forums</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have launched Salary.sg Forums.
Now you can discuss salary, job, career and investment matters in a user-friendly forum format.
Powered by vBulletin &#8211; which is the most popular forum engine among top discussion forums worldwide &#8211; you can now view well organized threads of discussions and reply directly to a particular thread or post that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Degrees Not In Demand Anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mainstream media is apparently telling us that business degrees are no longer in demand. We are told a law degree can command a salary as high as $8,500 while arts and science courses are getting popular now.
On the front page of yesterday&#8217;s Business Times printed edition:
&#8220;Trainee lawyer bags $8,500 monthly pay
Foreign law firm pays [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>79</slash:comments>
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		<title>Graduate Employment Surveys (published 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.salary.sg/2009/graduate-employment-surveys-published-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.salary.sg/2009/graduate-employment-surveys-published-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you believe the annual graduate employment survey reports (I don&#8217;t quite), here are the rankings for the class of 2008:
Permanent Employment Rate


NTU Arts (with Education) &#8211; 100%
NTU Maritime Studies &#8211; 100%
NTU Science (with Education) &#8211; 100%
NUS Dental Surgery &#8211; 100%
NUS Information Systems &#8211; 100%
SMU Information Systems Management (cum laude and above) &#8211; 100%
SMU Economics [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Best MBA Schools 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.salary.sg/2009/best-mba-schools-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.salary.sg/2009/best-mba-schools-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A popular career move during economic downturns is to go back to school.
If you&#8217;re shopping around for a good MBA school, consider BusinessWeek&#8217;s recently published rankings of U.S. and international business schools (published every other year):
Best International Business Schools


Queen&#8217;s University, Canada
IE Business School, Spain
INSEAD, France (with satellite campus in Singapore)
Western Ontario (Ivey), Canada
London Business School, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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