Students on work attachments disappointed...

Heidi Khoo reports in The Electric New Paper that middle-class students from countries like Indonesia and the Phillipines who were lured by six month work attachments in Singapore are finding disappointing situations upon arrival. The work positions are often sales clerks or waitstaff, not the higher level roles they were led to expect. Additionally, living situations in the dormitories are often unbelievably crowded.

Recruiters are misleading students and luring them without making living conditions clear. Some students are living in dorms crammed with 11 bunk beds that are riddled with bed bugs. Additionally some of the students are working an incredible number of hours. One female student interviewed in the piece is working 60 hour weeks. According to the article, recruiting agents were unable to find affordable, better accomodations for the students and many would be sent back.

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