When I was an undergraduate student at the National University of Singapore, I never understood why there were so many students from China in our school who were basically studying in NUS on a full ride, using taxpayers' money to fund their education...and at the end of it, all they had to do was just to work for three years at a Singapore-registered company. I don't know what the figures for compliance are like, but I was told most work around that requirement.Forgive me for being too simplistic in my perception here, and I've got nothing against a more liberal talent policy, but it made me wonder: Is Singapore so desperate for foreign talent that we are willing to set our bar so low for a free education? The joke back then, totally unverified I must add, was that we were so desperate, even for China's third-tier talent after the first two-tiers have left for the U.S. and Europe.
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