I suddenly thought about this issue. Why are undergraduates and poly students in Singapore not considered as students when we take public transport?
Isn’t it discriminatory to collect adult fares from us, since undergraduates and poly students are still full-time students with little to no income? In fact, I suspect many secondary school and JC students get more pocket money than their tertiary counterparts.
I feel that it’s about time such a policy is changed. This is basic welfare for tertiary students, many who need to scrimp and save for their living expenses and constantly increasing tuition fees…
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Thats something which has been bugging me for years ever since I started my tertiary education with Ngee Ann Polytechnic back in 1996….
Well I can’t figure out why if we have student discounts for practically everything under the sun applying to tertiary students, why is the most basic type of expense, transportation not included?
How much money can the operators lose by extending this discount to tertiary students? There are millions of commuters in Singapore, and full-time tertiary students from the public institutions only make up a small fraction.
To be fair, there are concession passes for tertiary students. For example, if you pay $52 you have unlimited bus rides for a month (if you are a tertiary student).
Go to Transitlink website (http://www.transitlink.com.sg/) and click on “Product & Services” for details.
The transport companies do not think it this way. May be they think most undergraduates are already working part-time earning pocket money from their tuition assignments, so they should pay the same fare as other working adults. Heh..
University and Poly students DO get concession passes.
That, I am aware.
However, concession passes cost $52 per month, which works out to quite a bit for undergrads who don’t commute a lot. And unless you really commute a lot, $52 is not going to be worth it considering it only covers bus fare and no MRT.
On the other hand, concession passes for other students cost just over $20.
Those other students are so poor they wear uniforms – same one everyday. You get to change your clothes, so you are richer.
I think that’s how they figured it out.
shoestring > that’s a good one, lol!
speaking of which, i noticed kids nowadays carry the latest phones and ipods and PSP in their ’schoolbags’. Think many of them are richer than undergrads who work part time.
Come to think of it, judging from some of those female undergrads who wear skimpy clothes to school despite the cold aircon in lecture halls, they must be quite poor to afford enough cloth for decent cover.
So I think undergrads ought to be given clothing subsidies as well