Singapore’s top local university, the National University of
Singapore (NUS), is currently ranked 22nd in the 2013 World Reputation Rankings
published by the Times Higher Education (THE). However, there’ve been
reports of unhappiness at NUS due to the disproportionately high number of foreign faculty
members over there.
While the main complain seems to be discriminatory hiring (when
a foreign recruiter hires people from his homeland), I have a far simpler and
better explanation on why there are so few Singaporean academics. Singaporeans don't want to pursue the path of academia.
It's that simple. We Singaporeans just don't care about such things. We care about making money; doing research and writing papers...not so much. Forget about the universities, even in companies, you will see few
Singaporeans in their R&D departments.
Generally speaking, Singaporeans are
just not interested in such things. The fact that this happens at a famous university
makes no difference. Singaporeans will be Singaporeans.
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