No shorts. No dyed hair. No slippers...
Officials stationed at campus entrances every morning to enforce code. The decision by the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) has upset many of its 12,500 students. -ST
Thu, Nov 06, 2008
The Straits Times
By Jane Ng & Amelia Tan
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Not allowed
- excerpt from a notice sent out to MDIS students and posted on Flowerpod Community |
ONE of Singapore's biggest private schools is cracking down on student dress, banning mini-skirts, flip-flops, dyed hair and visible tattoos, among a host of other things.
The decision by the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) has upset many of its 12,500 students, who called the rules draconian.
'I think (they) are unnecessary. We are studying at a private institution, not at a secondary school or polytechnic,' said final-year mass communications student Raaj Kumar, 18.
Official dress codes at other institutions
Nanyang Technological University
- No singlets, shorts, mini-skirts, clothes with obscene slogans, slippers, or sandals without heel straps.
National University of Singapore
- Students are advised against wearing revealing shorts, singlets, slippers and clothes with vulgar words or pictures.
Singapore Management University
- No dress code.
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