Provisional offer to uni scholarship
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@lee_yl said in Provisional offer to uni scholarship:
I posed the same question to my daughter who replied that she had no idea what the Accountancy course entails.
As DD2 has similar interests as her elder sister, so likely will choose either Biz Ad or Economics.
Reasons for not picking Accountancy because accountants work long hours (9am to 2am?) regularly and the pay does not justify the long hours put in. DD2 once mentioned accountancy is a sunset industry. I guess she meant the mundane work can be handled by AI in the near future thus reducing the number of human accountants.
Most people told me can be tax compliance officer, but if most people think the same way, are there enough tax compliance roles to go around?
I don’t know about Accountancy in particular, but I find that the hype that things “can be done by AI” is only partially true in many fields. There will always be a need for the human brain to deal with the more ambiguous decisions, anything that involves ethics, etc. While AI can certainly take over the mundane jobs (which is a concern for those who are less able in some way), I don’t believe that humans will ever be completely excluded. So I guess it depends on where in the pecking order a person is. The more mundane, predictable and repetitive a job, the more likely that it will be taken over by machines.
I do have a friend who has his own growing accountancy firm, and he says it’s very hard to find good staff these days. He still needs people who can see what clients want and advise, especially since every company is a bit different. Those are things that machines can’t do (yet?).
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Once DH met up with a friend who just returned from US. He told DH that the job displacement is already happening in US and at a very aggressive pace. Prior to that, a job that needs 10 accountants may only need 3 now. In Singapore, we are always slower than US so we have yet to see it here but I guess it’s just a matter of time.
Maybe long working hours, burnt out and low pay attributed to your friend having difficulties to retain good accounting staff.
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Unless a child is going into a highly specialized field, don’t think they will be too confined to a specific path or industry.
What is important is being able to embrace change and learn / re-learn fast.
Jamie Dimon says to get a job at JPMorgan, what you study in college ‘almost doesn’t matter’
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jamie-dimon-says-job-jpmorgan-220827006.html
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Chance upon these series of interviews on what NUS/NTU/SMU students think about their respective Uni. Get to hear some candid replies. The ones that left some impressions on me are from NTU students: their “Starwars” problem , monkey stealing food, and a student chose NTU bcos NTU offered him a scholarship. My daughter is offered a provisional scholarship by NTU too but SMU is her first choice, even without scholarship. I told her I will support her decision.
https://youtu.be/N3O109N8Auo?si=LMLwc20ALAHymg5W
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Congrats to Imp75’s DD and bbbay’s DD who received their provisional offers!
Could someone help me to understand the tertiary system please? The A level results will be out on 21 Feb this year I believe? So the provisional offers from the local universities are based on the school prelim results? Is there a certain grade that qualifies to receive such offers? Does the child need to apply for it? Or the school will tell the local unis and the unis will woo the top scorers? And how about overseas unis? I guess those must be actively applied to (if the child is interested) since we are not on their radar?
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@zac-s-mum said in Provisional offer to uni scholarship:
Congrats to Imp75’s DD and bbbay’s DD who received their provisional offers!
Could someone help me to understand the tertiary system please? The A level results will be out on 21 Feb this year I believe? So the provisional offers from the local universities are based on the school prelim results? Is there a certain grade that qualifies to receive such offers? Does the child need to apply for it? Or the school will tell the local unis and the unis will woo the top scorers? And how about overseas unis? I guess those must be actively applied to (if the child is interested) since we are not on their radar?
I’m not in the picture for local universities, though my impression is that they try to woo and process good students early. I expect it’s partly because this spreads out the workload, and also making an offer early may pre-dispose some students to stick to that university. My guess is that the schools will give the universities some info about students (are there privacy issues here?). Even if a student is not invited in advance, they can still apply for scholarships etc after the results are released.
Overseas universities - students need to make the applications themselves. For govt scholarships (overseas and local), it seems that schools also feed students’ names to the PSC at least. Not sure about the criteria they use - probably a good track record of scores and CCA. But even so, PSC does not help with applications, as far as I know. Some JCs can provide advice.
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@bbbay
We receive the NTU offer letter by mail which requires the acceptance of scholarship by 25/2 upon which if none will lapse. What will you do here? Does it mean once accepted the scholarship, you are lock into the course and uni and can’t even participate in admission exercise to the other uni which is due in end mar? -
@Imp75 said in Provisional offer to uni scholarship:
@bbbay
We receive the NTU offer letter by mail which requires the acceptance of scholarship by 25/2 upon which if none will lapse. What will you do here? Does it mean once accepted the scholarship, you are lock into the course and uni and can’t even participate in admission exercise to the other uni which is due in end mar?I will ask my DD to call NTU to find out whether after her accepting NTU scholarship she can’t apply for other course/Uni . this will provide clarity
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@bbbay
Thanks will await your update. My dd is more keen on NUS as she wants to take Jap studies as a minor which is only offered in NUS but if NUS does not award her scholarship then too sayang to give up the NTU scholarship.
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