35% of NUS student population are foreigners
At a lunch event in October 2012, PM Lee disclosed that foreign students then formed about 16% of the university enrolment compared with 18% in 2011 (‘PM: Proportion of foreign students in universities going down‘). He has promised to cut the university foreign student enrolment to 15% by 2015. To do this, he plans to open...
4 in 10 SG employees want to retire early
Nearly 4 in 10 (37%) employees in Singapore want to retire at the age of 55, according to the 2014 Randstad Award survey of 6,546 such persons. Currently, the statutory minimum retirement age set by the government is 62. It is not surprising that more employees in Singapore want to retire earlier considering the fact that they...
Govt to help F&B firms link up with overseas SGs?
The Straits Times (ST) reported on 2 April 2014 ('Overseas Singaporean managers in demand back home') that due to a manpower crunch in the food and beverage (F&B) industry, the F&B Managers' Association hopes that more overseas Singaporeans will return home to work in Singapore. "Many of these workers have at least three...
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