tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post968265245919985523..comments2024-03-29T14:28:43.377+08:00Comments on My Singapore News: Questionable numbersChua Chin Leng aka redbeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11743716923635835397noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-79631426648100299752011-08-17T08:20:20.512+08:002011-08-17T08:20:20.512+08:00Hi Yin Shanyang, welcome to the blog.
Without th...Hi Yin Shanyang, welcome to the blog. <br /><br />Without the full data on the table it is difficult to be accurate in what we are discussing except making some generalisation. Even in the mypaper today, it said that 12,000 Singaporean students enter university each year which is obviously wrong when total places available is 12,000 and 18% or 2,160 of these were reserved for foreign students.<brChua Chin Leng aka redbeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11743716923635835397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-69486416851146242322011-08-16T20:09:29.922+08:002011-08-16T20:09:29.922+08:00Hi Chua.
I’m no statistician, but I like to draw ...Hi Chua.<br /><br />I’m no statistician, but I like to draw pictures of numbers. And I like to read the outcome of the census.<br /><br />I think using the increase in total population between 2001 to 2011 is misleading. Mainly because of the explosive growth of the non-resident population in Singapore ( <a href="http://www.singstat.gov.sg/stats/themes/people/hist/popn.html" rel="nofollow">see</aYin Shanyanghttp://www.twitter.com/yinshanyangnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-35038152130107081902011-08-16T16:01:36.065+08:002011-08-16T16:01:36.065+08:00Hi anon 12:49, good that you got your flat. During...Hi anon 12:49, good that you got your flat. During my time you retained your registration number in the queue, and if I am not wrong, they used the income on the date of registration. This should be the way. <br /><br />I think they have changed the system of retaining the queue number and using the latest income on being offerred the flat. Not sure about your case, is it that the limit was Chua Chin Leng aka redbeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11743716923635835397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-37377401976591399812011-08-16T15:55:10.612+08:002011-08-16T15:55:10.612+08:00Hi anon, the 2000 increase is for the next few yea...Hi anon, the 2000 increase is for the next few years when total intake goes up to 14,000.<br /><br />Short cut for good grads is to go to China and India and import a couple of millions from them.Chua Chin Leng aka redbeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11743716923635835397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-51141896776707314022011-08-16T13:59:55.108+08:002011-08-16T13:59:55.108+08:00http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singap...http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20110815-294491.html<br /><br />Here's where try to be sneaky with numbers. <br />From 9k - 12k is a 3k increase, yet they say 2k is added. What happened to the 1k? Non-uni like Poly or for FT?<br />Given the total population now is 5m, 12k of uni seats is still pathetic. What's the context here? Against what total # of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-26334030466841329282011-08-16T12:49:00.782+08:002011-08-16T12:49:00.782+08:00I might be wrong but I think hdb will based it on ...I might be wrong but I think hdb will based it on the pay when you applied for the flat. We crossed the limit but we were still allowed to buy our bto.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-36801176686852189472011-08-16T12:45:24.749+08:002011-08-16T12:45:24.749+08:00However, the bulk of the new migrants will not nee...However, the bulk of the new migrants will not need to attend University. Their children may also not be of University going age yet or have no desire to attend Universities in Singapore. I'm not so sure if your theory is entirely correct.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-6657630047706197132011-08-16T09:59:21.543+08:002011-08-16T09:59:21.543+08:00Hi Debbie, welcome to the blog.
I was told that i...Hi Debbie, welcome to the blog. <br />I was told that if you upgrade to explorer Chrome it will help. Firefox is not too bad either. But if you are using incompany system, the series of firewalls could slow down the speed badly.<br /><br />In 2001, there were 9000 places. Now 12,000 which gives an increase of 3000. Of this 18% is taken up by foreign students, 18%x12,000 or 2160. The net increase Chua Chin Leng aka redbeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11743716923635835397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17473688.post-77024520787096004132011-08-16T09:46:06.837+08:002011-08-16T09:46:06.837+08:00Hello Mr Chua,
I always enjoy reading your blog, t...Hello Mr Chua,<br />I always enjoy reading your blog, the downloading difficulties notwithstanding. I hope other people do not give up reading your blog because of this difficulty.<br />The main point of my comment today - I don't quite follow the arguments in your opening paragraphs about the number of university vacancies vis-a-viz the number of immigrants. But I do understand your commentsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com