7/26/2009

Can students assume that all is ok?

With the closing of Brookes Business School and its subsidiary school, can students attending classes in all the existing private schools feel secure that they will not get into the same problem as those from these two schools? Case's Executive Director Seah Seng Choon has explained that CaseTrust is just about protecting the fees students paid and welfare practices. The role of ensuring academic excellence is the responsibility of Spring Singapore. In 2004, EDB's press statement said that an accreditation council was supposed to be set up. This somehow did not materialise. Can we assume that all the private schools thus did not go through a screening process to ensure that what they claimed were genuine and that all of them are sound and proper? A new regime will be set up under EduTrust to regulate private schools and the quality of the services they are providing. Until then, Case is stepping up to check on private schools to see that all is in order. There is a lapse of 5 years of free enterprise when everything goes. 5 years of caveat emptor while the foul smell was floating around and with several other incidents and several schools closed down. What a pathetic state of affair that was allowed go on for so long without any body stepping in to protect the students and the image of a reliable and world class education hub that we are building. Can students assume that everything is ok now?

3 comments:

Wally Buffet said...

"Can students assume that everything is ok now? "

Certainly not. My regular KTV hostess is still sleeping in class next to an intense PRC male lapping up every word that the teacher drones on, on the literary merits of "Wuthering Heights" during the English class! She wouldn't even know who the f@*k Emily Bronte was! WTF!

Anonymous said...

The Police and Enforcements are in every country. So are crimes prevailing everywhere.

Man; no one can assume anything is proper in human society, the dirtiest species is the only species capable of the most heinous acts.

Anonymous said...

Ok, everything is Ok!

Didn't you know they are closing some hawker centres for days to do some thorough cleaning, just to get the 'ok' certification.

We already have certified 5-star public toilets. Wonder what that means? Must be better than those at 5 star hotels. Die die must try one day.

Lost Citizen