Prof Lim Chong Yah: Send more Singaporeans to Ivy League universities to do their PhD

The Malaysian Insider, 13 Oct 2012
Some of his suggestions have seen fruition in the past, such as his call years ago to fund the best students and young university staff to get their PhD abroad. And they went “by the dozens”. But the scheme no longer exists, a retrogressive move he still laments.
“They say it is too expensive. Well, we are quite a wealthy nation,” he remarks.
Indeed, in a span of nearly two hours, there is only once when Lim says he is “not happy” about something: When talking about scholarships and how “so many” are being given to foreigners to do a doctorate here.
Prefacing his view with the point that he is “not anti-foreigner”, he says: “I would prefer to send more and more Singaporeans abroad to Ivy League universities to do their PhD.” Full story