"Clearly, the upside of being poorly educated and studying in grotty compounds here, is that you get your tertiary education overwhelmingly paid for by the government, no matter how stupid you are. Simply by virtue of your citizenship and willingness to endure an inferior academic experience. The MOE gives out 'tuition grant' to any moron willing to make the sacrifice, or more accurately for the majority of them, people who can't make it to first rate or top universities and have no choice but to end up there. Also, they don't have the brains to get a top scholarship. And no money to go away.
The amount of the tuition grant is even greater than the amount you pay. For example, to immerse yourself in say faculty of law, or the academic travesty of its engineering programme, wiry hair growing on the pimply arse of humanities' fungus, arts and social science in NUS, you only needed to pay $6,110 in the year of 2007. Of course, she graduated way before that, which means her course was probably cheaper. Yet, the grant amount is $13,700. Yes, this is such a basement bargain, apt indeed for the basement bargain bin of intellectual life !! The grant amount is larger than the amount you are left to pay."
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