GLOBALISATION and the Internet spin-off a new phenomenon: The migration of and quest for top talent around the world.
Many countries, such as the United States, Britain, Germany, Australia, Canada and even our “tiny red dot” Singapore, work hard to attract talented professionals to work, and hopefully settle down in those countries.
AS IN OTHER economic sectors, education figures prominently in Singapore’s global reputation. Hence, its current position as an Asian education hub attracting thousands of foreign students to learn at its institutions and schools.
Since the city-state’s secession from Malaysia in 1965, education figures highly in its national development. With no other significant natural resources, developing and educating her human resource becomes a top priority.
Singapore’s move from Third to First World status results in no small part, from investing heavily on educating its people.
And in contrast to its South-east Asian neighbours newly freed of the colonial yoke, Singapore made a crucial decision. It kept English as one of Singapore’s official languages and the working language.
The government realised from the start that English is the key to science, engineering, mathematics and other intellectual pursuits. And thus a key to the national development, progress and achievements. In fact, English helps Singapore to stay ahead of many countries in fields such as Intelligence Technology (eg., E-government), bio-medical science, financial services, education and others.
The United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund regard Singapore a successful nation. They hold Singapore highly as an example to other developing economies.
Several developing nations, Botswana, Namibia, China, India, South Africa, the Palestine Authority among others have sought Singapore’s help. They would like to apply the Singapore model, in full or in part, to their own systems.
Singapore hosts some of the best centres of learning from around the world. Its Singapore Management University is in partnership with the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. INSEAD, the famous French business school, opened its Asian campus in Singapore, its only one outside France.
Finally…we have a pre-launch site up and running since last week. If you have no clue what this site about after scanning all the pages, then maybe this may help a little. To start off, this portal is started when Innovez One PTE LTD, an affiliated company of MRSHomestay.com won a bid from Singapore Tourism Board to provide professional services for Housing Development Board (HDB) Homestay Guardianship Programme. Read more on Channel News Asia site.
So what is MRSHomestay?
Summarized version : MRSHomestay provides a matchmaking service to overseas student looking to stay with a family during stay in Singapore. The family will provide accomodation, food, guardianship etc.
How do we do that? We provide a set of online tools such as Online Registration, Search engine, Users Voting, Guardian Personal Pages for users who register with us. Offline MRSHomestay matchmakers do the job of bringing students to a profile of registered guardians that match their requirements such as locality, personal preferences, school etc.
We hope to put up more tools and resources over the next couple of months and at the meanwhile, we totally welcome any suggestions on how we can make this site a little easier and more useful for you.
Regards, DAVE
