26 April 2021
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, applications from Singaporeans for student visas to traditional higher education overseas destinations have fallen. Additionally, many students have had to cut short their experience of life abroad.
To address this, Singapore’s universities opened up more places to take in students who would otherwise have gone overseas. Around 2,000 more places in Autonomous Universities were offered last year to accommodate students whose overseas university plans had been disrupted.
A Public Service Commission Secretariat spokesman told The Straits Times that while it offered scholarships in different disciplines and countries, it will offer this year’s overseas scholarship recipients the concurrent option to pursue their studies at a tertiary institution in Singapore.