Expand varsity places, but not at expense of quality

Polytechnic principals feel that the Government's promise to add 2,000 university places will still be insufficient to meet demand as the majority of polytechnic graduates now view polytechnics as a step to university instead of the final stop, and the calibre of polytechnic students is also improving. A recent case is a Republic Polytechnic student who attained a GPA of 3.79 but still could not land a place to study business at NUS, NTU or SMU.