Education and moulding of the people as a force to be recognised internationally is one of the many failed missions in the legacy of Lee Kuan Yew due of his poor choice of a good leader to succeed him. His choices were limited because of his eagerness to make his own eldest son become the Prime Minister, a square peg squeezed into a round hole.
LHL is more suitable to be an academic professional, teaching in higher institutions of learning in mathematics. He was and is never good in politics, diplomacy and people-skills.
He is by nature good in numbers and digits. He is not good in selecting quality leaders to help him govern because of his inability to tolerate and accommodate dissenting and maverick views.
Therefore, he surrounds himself with sycophantic loyalists instead of real quality leaders. Owing to this critical factir, his team has been unable to raise the standard of living of his people on the one hand but only good in increasing the cost of living on the other.
In the formulation and implementation of many of his myopic, nationally unintegrated and piece-meal policies, he has failed his father, his predecessors, his people and his country miserably.
Education is the epitome and the zenith of all his failures. The long-term leadership succession is the second. CECA is the third.
Help us, God!
Queen of Hearts.
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The ruling party politicians should for the sake of Singapore's survival put aside their false pride and ego and realise their inadequacy and shortcomings by nominating good competent leaders from among the qualified people of Singapore be it they are from opposition parties or from the general public. Singapore survival should be treated by all as above party politics and as time is of the essence the PM should take instant action forthwith.
Next be more sensible everybody knows and you know too the politicians are unethically and immorally overpaid with high sinful salaries while the Singaporean citizens by and large are wobbling with inadequate income in addition of having to bear high taxes both direct and indirect taxes. It is only right and proper to slash the pay of all ministers and MPs by at least fifty to sixty percent. Please have some conscience and save Singapore. It is now or never.
I think some dude last time mentioned that without the million, it will affect their standard of living leh so how to slash?
I remember someone said that unless you pay very high salaries to the Singaporean Ministers you will not get top class , well educated, efficient and capable people to take up the positions. Well, you can see how well they are managing the affairs of Singapore. Just look at how well the COVID-19 affairs have been managed?
Why Singapore's Education System Has Failed The People And Country
If India's fake degrees are readily available and acceptable, and so cheap and easy to obtain, why need we send out children through the Singapore's cannot-get-good-jobs education system? Moreover, it is so stringent, tedious, rigorous and stressful, and cost lots of precious time and hard-earned money!
From Primary 1 to Primary 6 is six years.
From Secondary 1 to Secondary 5 is five years.
Polytechnic is three years.
University is another four years.
Adding play-school 2 years and kindergarten years 2 years, the total time spent for each child is 22 years.
What about the total amount of money to be spent?
Go make a calculation and see if the amount to be spent comes up to at least $150,000 for the 22 years of education, not counting food and lodgings.
How much does it cost to get a fake basic degree plus a masters degree, PLUS a PHD? Less than SG$10,000! Some fake universities can even offer you all three degrees for only SG$5,000.
And you can easily get six IT certificates in just one week, with someone sitting for the exams for you. All you need is to pay your ghost writers and bribe the invigilators (or the ones who supervises the exams) through the specialised exams-taking agencies that are flourishing in India.
Another aspect, for Singaporean boys, is that two more years of Fulltime National Service have to be added. That brings to a grand total of 24 years of time spent in pursuit of a piece of paper that cannot even get you an interview for a good-paying and promising job.
On the other hand, foreigners do not need to do National Service nor be called up for reserve liabilities every year. Therefore, they do not need to disrupt their employment. As such, employers will naturally shun those who need to go for in-camp training every year, causing not only disruptions but also loss of money and time to their organisations. So they will openly say, "Singaporeans do not have the necessary qualifications", instead of saying that Singaporeans have to be disrupted to do in-camp training every year!
Singapore's education system is a failure because of several factors, not attributable to the Ministry of Education alone. They are:
1. Failure of the education system to cater for the job markets by grooming the students to be street-smart wilh and with the necessary skills that the jobs required.
2. The compulsory National Service liabilities are a pain in the ass for both the employees and employers because of their disruptive nature. This discourages all employers from hiring Singaporeans, preferring foreigners instead.
3. Foreigners are made readily available by the government's open arms and open legs policy and have a very vast and extensive pool of choices from 193 countries in the world.
4. Foreigners are cheaper to hire and, for various reasons, they are more willing to work longer hours, often going against Singapore and International labour laws, to satisfy the employer's demands and profit motives.
5. Fake qualifications are now acceptable in Singapore, either legally or illegally. The MOM's feeble attempts to curb this malpractice is way too little too late. The disease has already infested the entire employment environment of Singapore, since the beginning of the CECA explorations, exploitations and infestations.
Since the critical problem is at the national level, remedial actions have to be coordinated by a special task force comprising the Permanent Secretaries of MOE, MOM, MHF, MTI and NTUC, closely supervised by the PMO.
Conclusion:
Unless, a coordinated, integrated, vigorous and determined counter-measure campaign is launched to revamp the whole education system, the National Service policy and the open legs foreign talents policy, to right the wrongs, this slippery road of further deterioration and destruction for Singaporeans is there to stay and Singaporeans will have to bite the bullets and cringe the pains.
LIPS, At Your Service.
RB, please note that I have deleted the original article above. Please use the revised version. Thanks.
Noted.
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