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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’s Business Times printed edition: “Trainee lawyer bags $8,500 monthly pay Foreign [...]
If you believe the annual graduate employment survey reports (I don’t quite), here are the rankings for the class of 2008: Permanent Employment Rate NTU Arts (with Education) – 100% NTU Maritime Studies – 100% NTU Science (with Education) – 100% NUS Dental Surgery – 100% NUS Information Systems – 100% SMU Information Systems Management [...]
A popular career move during economic downturns is to go back to school. If you’re shopping around for a good MBA school, consider BusinessWeek’s recently published rankings of U.S. and international business schools (published every other year): Best International Business Schools Queen’s University, Canada IE Business School, Spain INSEAD, France (with satellite campus in Singapore) [...]
Read the full article at Best MBA Schools 2009Shrewd businessmen are buying degrees from degree mills and passing themselves off as “Dr” so-and-so. Straits Times journalist Sandra Davie even managed to buy a degree for her dog! (ST, August 29, 2008). Yes, Harry Doggy the cute beagle is now officially a “Doctor of Arts”. For just US$599. Other people spent years slogging to [...]
Read the full article at Beware of People who claim to have “Doctorates”Just as we were debating whether engineering is a dead-end career in Singapore, I noticed a common trait among the 2008 batch of President’s Scholarship recipients. None of them is going to be an engineer. From what President Nathan said in his speech, these scholars will all be heading to foreign universities for their studies. [...]
Read the full article at None of this year’s President’s Scholars doing EngineeringWhile the Stratis Times chose the headline “Nearly half of PSC awards to heartlanders” (ST, July 26, 2008), I prefer to highlight the still rather big and obvious gap when you compare the proportion of heartlander scholarship holders (47.0%) to the proportion of the general heartlander population (77.8%). As mentioned in a previous Salary.sg post, [...]
Read the full article at Only 47 percent of Scholars stay in HDB[Update 22 Aug 09: See primary schools ranking for 2009] A good education is arguably a necessary condition for good employability and even a good salary, so: Good Education ≈ Good Salary. … which is why parents are so uptight about getting their children into the best primary schools. They know best. Going by this, I [...]
Read the full article at Best Primary Schools 2008Among news like a monk and an infidel GP doctor making six-figure income, there’s an interesting piece in ST two days ago – ex-top civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow worries that Singapore is becoming “high cost, low tech”. “The United States has overtaken Britain because while some of their best went to Wall Street, their [...]
Read the full article at Engineering and Technology Careers are Not Valued – Singapore is “High Cost Low Tech”Yes, it’s not finance degrees. Most highly-paid senior executives actually did engineering for their first degrees, so said Business Times. Among the best-paid executives in Straits Times Index companies, whose income ranges from $250k to $9m per year, 31% graduated with engineering degrees. The next largest group – at 22% – hold science degrees. Notable [...]
Read the full article at High earners have engineering degreesRead an interesting thread in Sammyboy in delphiforums titled “Engineering: A dead end career in SG”. Here are some interesting quotes from that thread: “Most successful second-career Engineers I know switched line during their 2-3 year of work. Some became Bankers, some went into Sales, some went into IT… The world needs Engineers more than [...]
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