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       Scholarships

    Jardine Scholarship Awards For Singapore 2001

     The Jardine Scholarships

    2001 Lee Kuan Yew Scholarships

     Lee Kuan Yew Scholarships

 

    NTUC Income Scholarships 2001

     Applications for the NTUC Income Scholarships are now open.

 

    Rhodes Scholarship For Singapore 2001

     The Rhodes Scholarship

 

    2000/2001 Raffles Scholars

     Raffles scholarship is now known as Chevening scholarship. Each of its 2002 scholarships is worth between GBP10,000 (S$27,000) and GBP15,000 but some recipeints will get up to GBP25,000, depending on the nature of their course. 13 out of 100 applicants received the 2002 scholarship, awarded by the British Government's Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and several corporate sponsors from Britain and Singapore. 

     Here is the list of 2000/2001 Raffles Scholars; also scholarship application contact details.

 

     News Snippets

     2006

 

MAS Launches Finance Scholarship Programme

MAS will set aside a budget of S$30 million from the FSDF over the next 5 years. It expects to award some 150 FSP scholarships over the next 5 years.

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     2005

LASALLE-SIA to launch scholarship for acting & musical theatre degrees

"The Veda Mekani Scholarship for Acting and Musical Theatre will be launched on 28 October 05 at The Arts House. For the occasion, LASALLE-SIA will be presenting the first public performance by its pioneer cohort of BA (Hons) Musical Theatre students...
"In this cabaret-style presentation, students will perform a range of songs from the early classic animated features including Snow White, Dumbo and Pinocchio, and through to the recent masterworks like Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid and Toy Story..."

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     Earlier Years

     Education - Keeping pace with the needs of tomorrow: Excerpt of Minister for Education and 2nd Minister for Defence RADM (NS) TEO Chee Hean's speech

     2002 PSC Scholarships: Excerpt of DPM LEE Hsien Loong's speech

 
  Seven statutory boards have banded together to give out a new scholarship - the Firefly scholarship - in an attempt to attract more talent. The scholarship allows applicants to try for a place at any of the seven, through just one application instead of applying separately. The scholarship holders, while attached to a parent agency, would also be allowed to do a stint - typically two to three years - at any local or international office of a Firefly member. The members, all under the Trade and Industry Ministry, are: Economic Development Board, JTC Corporation, A*Star, Spring Singapore, Singapore Tourism Board, International Enterprise Singapore and the Energy Market Authority. The Firefly will give out 27 scholarships to the first batch of winners today. (Straits Times 5 Aug 2002) (6)

  The Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA) is offering 15 new two-year scholarships worth S$2,000 each to junior college students with no strings attached.  Students who are Singaporean citizens or permanent residents and have an aggregate of six points or less in the O-level examinations are eligible for it. Online applications for the DSTA scholarship at www.dsta.gov.sg open on Monday and close on July 31. (Straits Times 12 Jul 2002) (H5)

  National swimmer THUM Ping Tjin, 22, has become Singapore's 21st Rhodes scholar. He will read modern history and politics at Oxford University in Britain. The GBP9,000 (S$23,500) scholarship scholarship covers tuition fees, accommodation costs and book allowances. THUM already holds a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Harvard. (Straits Times 3 Jun 2002) (H9)

  The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is trying to raise S$2 million to set up a professorship and scholarship in honour of the late Cabinet minister and sportsman Eddie Barker. It plans to use the money to sponsor top researchers and athletes in the field of physical education and sports science. Singapore Pools has already given S$1 million to the cause. (Straits Times 10 Apr 2002) (H3)

  Singapore Technologies, a tech-based government-linked company, is offering science and engineering whizkids scholarships of between S$24,000 and S$60,000 a year to pursue Masters and doctoral degrees - and without any bond. The awards, to be given out this year, are for two to five years. Foreigners can also apply, but all research has to be carried out at Singapore universities. About 30 scholarships will be handed out yearly. (Straits Times 22 Feb 2002)(8)

     2001

  Local media conglomerate Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) has given out 27 scholarships, the largest number it has awarded in a year since it started doing so in 1987. 25 scholarships were handed out in 2000 and 22 in 1999. (Straits Times 8 Jun 2001)

     2000

     Government scholarships here to stay: DPM Lee

  Government scholarships are here to stay. The fundamental reasons for which they were set up in the 1960s and 1970s are still valid today, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday when he presented the Public Service Commission (PSC) scholarships at the Mandarin Hotel. He dismissed suggestions that loans or grants be given instead, or that scholarships be given on the basis of need. The award, he said, should reflect the meritocratic values underpinning Singapore. The awards are a great "equaliser", he said, rewarding students for their hard work and ability, no matter what their family background. Because they will be studying at taxpayers' expense, they therefore have a moral obligation to serve out their bonds. So, it is wrong for students to plan to break their bonds even before starting on their studies, as 11 students had said they would.

     On Scholarship holders breaking bonds

  The Public Service Commission (PSC), Public Service Division and 20 statutory boards, in a joint statement to The Straits Times on 20 Jul 2000, urged the 11 scholarship holders who intend to break their bonds to come out in the open and identify themselves. The statement said that by choosing to remain anonymous, "these 11 persons have cast an unjust cloud over the integrity of many other scholars".

     Wrong for students to accept scholarship if they wanted to break bond

  Statutory boards and government-linked companies should re-look their scholarship schemes and find a solution to the recent controversy over scholarship bond-breakers, Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan said on 19 Jul 2000 in a student symposium organised by the Singapore International Foundation. A student asked Dr Tan if he thought the system of awarding scholarships with bonds should be reviewed. Noting that he had expected the question, Dr Tan said it was wrong for students to accept a scholarship if they intended to break their bonds. It was Dr Tan who last year suggested replacing government scholarships with tuition loans. The matter was laid to rest when Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong later told Parliament that he did not favour this idea and said government scholarships were here to stay.

     Ministry of Education to review teachers' pay and career structure

  The Ministry of Education (MOE) is engaging a consultant to review teachers' pay and career structure. The review is expected to be completed in six to nine months' time. These moves are being made to attract young talent to replace the 3500 teachers expected to retire in the next five years. Education Minister Teo Chee Hean announced this at the 2nd Teaching Scholarships Presentation Ceremony on 15 Jul 2000.

     PSC's response to Scholarship holders breaking bonds

  Scholarship holders planning to break their bonds should do the right thing and give up their scholarships now, before going to university "under false pretenses". The Public Service Commission, Public Service Division and 20 statutory boards sent a joint statement to The Straits Times on 11 Jul 2000 in response to a report in The Sunday Times headlined "We'll break bonds, say 11 scholarship holders".