A lot of American Universities/colleges do offer scholarships/grants to foreign students as they believe that diversity on campus is important.

Medicine is not offered as a 1st degree in the States. If his passion is in Medicine, then i think he’s made the smart move. He can always go on to Harvard for further studies later on.


Congratulations.

SINGAPORE: Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) has appointed Mr Winston James Hodge as its new principal. The appointment takes effect on Tuesday.


A statement from the school said he has 30 years of experience in the education and teaching field.

He had served as principal at Raffles Junior College and St Gabriel’s Secondary School, and as a cluster superintendent in the Ministry of Education’s headquarters.

A Singaporean, Mr Hodge is a Protestant and married with two children.

Mr Hodge said serving as principal of Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) is a rare privilege.

He says his immediate task is to learn from and connect with the Anglo-Chinese School family to better understand the hopes and aspirations they have for the school and the students.

Mr Hodge takes over from Dr Ong Teck Chin, who resigned in October last year following a complaint by a male teacher that Dr Ong had acted "inappropriately" towards him.

Dr Ong had been principal of the school for 16 years.

Following his resignation, deputy principal Fanny Tan was appointed acting principal.

- CNA/ir

My understanding from the principal’s talk is that Raffles Diploma reflects exceptional achievements beyond their academic performance so they look at participations in areas of leadership, sports, service learning… You can probably check out the details at the school website.


Red rose, are you referring to Raffles Programme rather than Raffles Diploma?

Just an idea…


When my son went for a school exchange program in primary school, I stuck Singapore coins ie 5 cents, 10, 20, 50, $1… (or $2 notes) on small cards and put them into plastic pockets. My son added short notes and his name and email contact on the cards. You can also stick them onto Singapore postcards. It is fast to put together and within the budget

jtoh:

WeiHan:

Another aspects that I am keen to know are


1. The percentage of students getting 3H2 or 4H2 distictions.
2. The cohort size of each schools.

So Far, I have RI-1182 (?)
VJC- approximately 850
TJC - approximately 850
DHS- 362
HCI - probably approximately 1200 (?)
RV - probabaly approximately 400 (?)
NJC - ?

RI- 1185

I dont have the exact number but I heard that HCI has about 100+ less than RI. I read somewhere that HCI had about 1000 last year.

I came across this in the brightsparks forum ---> http://forum.brightsparks.com.sg/showthread.php?t=4225 by Rui


Calculation of University Admission Score (for Standard subject combination)

Local universities take into account all six subjects (3 H2, 3 H1; in a case of a student with 4 H2, the H2 with the worst grade will be directly converted to a H1 - i.e. a B in your 4th H2 will become a H1 B).

The subjects contribute to a University admission score.

Each H2 subject has a maximum of 20 points for an A, with a decrement of 2.5 points for each grade (i.e. A-20; B-17.5; C-15 etc.).

Each H1 subject has a maximum of 10 points for an A, with a decrement of 1.25 points for each grade (i.e. A-10, B-8.75; C-7.5 etc.)

Effectively H1 is \"halve\" the H2. Hence, with straight A's in all 6 subjects, one can attain the maximum of (20 + 20 + 20 + 10 + 10 + 10) 90 points.

For me, what is important is not the top top students as these are often far and few in between but how the overall cohort performed that shows whether the school has done well for the students. So I am happy to see "9 in 10 students scored A/B in 20 H1 and H2 subjects".


Congratulations to HCI students and teachers!

DadOfGirl:

rosemummy:

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Erm, not cheaper. If a student does O-levels + SATs, he will end up graduating two years earlier than his friends. It's not two additional years. The Singapore system of education is based on the English system, which can take a very long time before university. The American system, however, takes a longer time for professional degrees.

It's definitely cheaper to start your US degree immediately. It's not 2 additional years in a community college - the 2 years is the general education part of the US degree, and had to be done whether you start with O level, A level or IB. After your community college, you transfer to the third year, while someone with A level or IB start in the first year. Cost wise, community college isn't that expensive. It'll work out cheaper than international schools and the fees would probably cost about the same as what you'll pay for tuition for A level students. You can do it accelerated and complete in about 1-1/2 years.

From what I know, you don't get much credit for A levels or IB. At the most, you'll save just 1 semester after spending 2 years doing it. For community college, you can almost always transfer all your credit, including to many of the Ivies and definitely to all the public ivies. You may also get priority to public universities in the same state, compared with someone applying straight with A levels / IB.

Yes, professional degrees can only be done after your 1st degree in the US.

Just to add, you'll graduate much faster if you skip your A level / IB if you intend to study in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The only advantage in doing A level / IB is that the student is older, more matured and better prepared for college, and will tend to do better than a 16 year old fresh out of O level, particularly for the Maths and Science subjects, and Econs (if they did all that in their A level / IB).

A-Level (JC) tution fee would be @ 4000/5000 Singapore Dollars per year. It will work out to be cost of 10000 SGd for two years.

Would you let go such opportunity to form foundation at reasonable cost? GEC-Alevel in sinagpore is defintely rated very well & if you score straight , you can save one semester in most Uni in US.[/quote]From what i've heard from students who've gone to American Universities, they can get 1 yr exemptions with A levels in most cases. A friend's daughter who went to Berkeley after her A levels is attempting to complete her undergraduate degree in 2.5yrs with course exemptions from her A levels.

WeiHan:

d1s2:

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Peking and Tsinghua are now considered as elite unis. Grads of these unis are warmly welcome in leading western societies.

I was in Boston last weekend and stayed with friends who are both Harvard professors/Research scientists. The husband commented that he knows that Shanghai Fudan university has a very good science program. Peking, Tsinghua and Fudan are the 3 top universities in China.

With the deteriorating financial condition of US, I suppose many of these scientists have difficulty securing research funding. On the other hand, the chinese government is pumping bigger funding into research. My question is do these scientists you met has considered any possibility of shifting to these universities for their career in the future?

My answer is \"likely\".[/quote]Both of my American friends have never been to Asia for work. They participates in scientific conferences mainly in Europe and America but are aware of the scientific communities in Asia. They are unlikely to be able to make the move due to family commitments. However, I have an Asian friend scientist with a National Institute who plans to leave the institute and do work in China in the near future. She laments the fact that she should have done more Mandarin even though she is fluent in the language as it would make dealings in China easier.

In the last week of meeting a number of people, it does seem that things have not recovered here in the US. Jobs are still not coming around.

I'm sorry this is :offtopic: so i better end here..