HOW ARE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES TOWARDS PUBLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS COMPARED TO PRIVATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AFTER GRADUATION?

(Vietsing24h.com) A latest survey in Singapore indicates that employment opportunities of private university students are less than public university students’s although most undergraduates have a part-time job.

Nearly half of them - 47,4 per cent - found full-time permanent work six months after finishing their studies, compared with 78.4 per cent for their peers from three publicly-funded universities - the National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Management University (SMU).

They also fared worse than post-national service polytechnic graduates, who recorded a 64 per cent full-time employment rate. 

The survey released on Tuesday (2018, April 3) by the Committee for Private Education also found that the private school graduates earned median gross starting salaries of $2,650 a month, below the $3,400 for graduates of NUS, NTU and SMU. Post-NS polytechnic graduates took home $2,480 a month. 

Some 37 per cent of 10,171 private school students who graduated from full-time external degree programmes between May 2016 and April 2017, responded to the survey conducted from November last year to February. Of the respondents, 2,800 were fresh graduates.

A total of 42 private schools took part in the exercise, of which 30 had graduates from full-time external degree programmes.

The survey showed that, overall, 79 per cent of fresh private school graduates were employed - full-time, part-time, or on a temporary or freelance basis within six months of finishing their examinations. This compares with the 88.9 per cent overall employment rate of graduates from public universities.

Public school system are highly evaluated by Singapore’s citizens and enterprises. Moreover, In Singapore, most organizations run by the government get higher standing than private ones such as public health and public transport.

Another example, comparing private schools to public schools in general education, It is obviously realized parents exerts great efforts so that their children can obtain an opportunity to learn in a public school.  It is the parents’ s attitude that makes a difference in human resource training of Singapore.

By Straitstime

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/about-half-of-private-school-graduates-find-full-time-work-six-months-after